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Life…

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So the whole of NSW is now in lockdown for 7 days. Honestly it doesn’t affect us too much, except that the boys won’t be attending school but will instead have class via Google Classroom. My husband will still go to work, as will my eldest daughter. Aleah hasn’t returned to Uni yet, they’ve just been informed all classes will remain online until October, so she continues to stay with us.

Aleah and I have finally finished watching Grimm, and have moved on to Rookie Blue, which is an old favourite of mine. I’ve been on a cooking show binge this past week. I’ve caught up with Canada and New Zealand’s versions of The Great British Bake Off and I stumbled across The Great Kenyan Bake Off on YouTube. Now I’m watching The Professionals Bake Off. I’m a pretty good cook but I’m not much of a baker because it requires too much precision and attention to detail for me, but I really admire the creativity of it all.

I was inspired to bake a Caramel Apple Dump Crumble after reading The Last of the Apple Blossom though. It’s simple, but so delicious served with some vanilla icecream .

Caramel Apple Dump Crumble

2 x 400g (14oz) tins of sliced pie apples

1/2 cup caramel sauce

1 tbsp + 1/3 cup brown sugar

2 tsp ground cinnamon

1 boxed vanilla cake mix

125g (1 stick ) unsalted butter

1 cup rolled oats

Heat oven to 180c (350F). Spray 9×13 dish lightly with cooking spray.

Mix 1/3 cup brown sugar and oats in a small bowl, set aside

Empty apples into dish, use a sharp knife to roughly halve apple slices. Add caramel sauce, 1 tbsp brown sugar and cinnamon and mix well. Distribute evenly in dish.

Pour dry cake mix evenly over apples.

Slice butter thinly and lay over cake mix in a grid fashion.

Sprinkle with oat and sugar mix.

Bake for 45 -50 mins or until bubbling and golden.

Let stand for a few minutes before serving with icecream.

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What I’ve Read Since I last Posted…

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Triflers Need Not Apply by Camilla Bruce

The Enemy Within by Tim Ayliffe

The Long Game by Simon Rowell

The Deep by Kyle Perry

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New Posts…

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Review: The Last of the Apple Blossom by Mary-Lou Stephens

Review: Triflers Need Not Apply by Camilla Bruce

Review: The Enemy Within by Tim Ayliffe

Review: The Long Game by Simon Rowell

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What I’m Reading This Week…

 

Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team of biologists tasked with reintroducing fourteen grey wolves into the remote Highlands. She hopes to heal not only the dying landscape, but Aggie, too, unmade by the terrible secrets that drove the sisters out of Alaska.

Inti is not the woman she once was, either, changed by the harm she’s witnessed – inflicted by humans on both the wild and each other. Yet as the wolves surprise everyone by thriving, Inti begins to let her guard down, even opening herself up to the possibility of love. But when a farmer is found dead, Inti knows where the town will lay blame. Unable to accept her wolves could be responsible, she makes a reckless decision to protect them. But if the wolves didn’t make the kill, then who did?

Once There Were Wolves is the unforgettable story of a woman desperate to save the creatures she loves – if she isn’t consumed by a wild that was once her refuge.

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Meshel Laurie, host of the incredibly successful Australian True Crime podcast speaks to the forensic pathologists, homicide detectives, defence barristers and victims’ families in this moving and gripping study of violent crime and largescale natural disaster.

CSI Told You Lies is a gripping account of the work of the forensic scientists on the frontline of Australia’s major crime and disaster investigations. They are part of the team at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine (VIFM), a state-of-the-art facility in Melbourne. VIFM is a world-renowned centre of forensic science, and its team members have led major recovery operations over the years, from the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami to the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires to the shooting down of flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014. VIFM forensics experts have also played pivotal roles in some of Australia’s highest-profile homicide cases, including the Frankston Serial Killer, the murders of Eurydice Dixon and Aya Maasarwe, and the arrest of convicted serial killer Peter Dupas.

Join Meshel Laurie as she goes ‘behind the curtain’ at VIFM, interviewing the Institute’s talented roster of forensic experts about their daily work. Her subjects also include others touched by Australia’s major crime and disaster investigations, including homicide detectives, defence barristers and families of victims as they confront their darkest moments.

After reading CSI Told You Lies you’ll never read another homicide headline without wondering about the forensic pathologist who happened to be on call, the evidence they found and the truth they uncovered.

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Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun. He’s a killer for hire and the best in the business. But he’ll do the job only if the target is a truly bad guy. And now Billy wants out. But first there is one last hit. Billy is among the best snipers in the world, a decorated Iraq war vet, a Houdini when it comes to vanishing after the job is done. So what could possibly go wrong?

How about everything.

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Olivia Grace, recently retired teen PI, has her priorities sorted. Pass first-year law, look after her little sister, and persuade her parents to come back from a Nepali monastery to resume … well, parenting. But after Olivia’s friend Abbey goes missing in Byron Bay, she can’t sit back and study Torts. It’s time to go undercover as hippie-chick Nansea, in hippie-chic Byron Bay: hub of influencers and international tourism, and home of yoga, surfing and wellness culture, against a breathtaking backdrop, a short drive from Olivia’s Gold Coast home.

Olivia’s looking for answers, with the help of her stash of disguises, the PI skills her irresistible ex-boss Rosco taught her … and a nose for trouble. Her suspects include a hard-core surfer who often argued with Abbey in the surf, a charismatic cult leader and an acrobatic botany student. And then there’s Rosco, officially assigned to the case, and proving impossible to avoid.

Lisa Walker’s second Olivia Grace novel is another rip-roaring excursion into madcap sunshine noir, with nods to Nancy Drew and Sherlock Holmes, and a flavour of Veronica Mars meets Elmore Leonard.

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