You did! Lovely to see you on this side 😀

My mum's a former teacher about the same age as this one. She can definitely afford to put her heating on.

Why, thank you kindly!

It's great liking the hated chocs. They're always left over in the xmas tubs at work. Meanwhile, the green triangles can get stuffed. They're nasty AF.

Pls send me all your coconut cast offs. Thank you kindly.

Tell your wife thank you kindly 😊 If she has any entertaining Scottish phrases for Ms. Isla Munro (A Calculated Risk) feel free to throw them in my direction.

Yeah, I've never listened to it. I am SO grateful that BSB accidentally found Nicki for the rest of mine (she'd originally auditioned for another BSB author). I think we've grown together as we've gone along. I'm a better author than I was and she's hit her stride and then some as a narrator.

That's probably for the best! I'm fond of both books but they are very obviously early novels and I'd change a ton of things if I had my time over. The audio of Tumbledown is better than DP, mainly because Sarah is cute as a button in it.

Snacky cravings are NEVER a bad thing! Oh, if you're listening to the books, Snowbound has a different narrator to all my others. Some people have got on well with her...I never made it past the sample 😬

I have a lot of very wonderful US readers who take great delight in being fluent at northern English swearing. And then there are the indignant minority who think everyone should write in their standard vernacular and those people, quite frankly, can please go and read something else.

Thank you! 😊 I do read my reviews, for better or for worse. A bad one might linger for a while if it's sensible, but the ones that say more about the reviewer than the book are like water off a duck's back.

Ha! I get my share. Main themes: "I chose a crime book and I am pissed off it is not a romance." "I am an AMURRRICAN and cannot cope with anything not written in AMURRRICAN." "I hate acronyms and uh...plot." And occasionally: "GAY 😱" (when they've got me mixed up with Cara Hunter 😆)

Oh whoops! 😆

I KNOW 😱

My equilibrium is just fucked. There was Gluhwein and fairy lights and everything!

😆😆 That would've proper shit you up!

They're all deplorable. It's difficult to overstate the damage they've done to this country during their time in power. I hope they get annihilated at the next election.