A Hippie's journey through health, beauty and spirituality
Covid-19 Week 85
I’m forever grateful to be offered to go on holiday with my eldest daughter and her husband, and daughter. So me and Mr Moon are off to a place we’ve never been before. Northumberland.
A lodge that has No WIFI or network coverage, so that means no podcasts for me unless I download first lol. And some stunning scenery to soak up and distract us, as honestly it’s been hard going lately (grief just sneaks up on you and pokes the bear all the time) so distraction and occupying ourselves is what is helping at the moment.
So for 5 glorious days this will be home.
Hoping to get some physio walks in, find some waterfalls and just ground ourselves with some big skies, stargazing and earth energies. I’ve bought some new walking boots especially for this. And I’m aiming to get to use a walking stick rather than crutch. Fingers crossed.
While I’ve been recovering from this Hip replacement, I’ve been digging into my older posts, more specifically ones that are the same weeks post op as I am now, to compare the sides.
And the one thing that shocked me, was I wasn’t as good as I thought. Somehow I’d had rose tinted specs on, and thought the first hip replacement was just magic from day one. Reading back from Jan 2019 actually made me feel better, as I now realise I had issues with swelling, and pain, and stamina as I do now.
So skipping into 13 weeks post hip replacement, I’m feeling a lot more confident about this recovery. I had been feeling so down and depressed about it all.
Started some side lunges 10reps both sides.
Started Monster walks with a resistant band 10 reps each side.
Hopefully this week we’ve been away in a lodge with walks planned, so if all goes well you will see these posts in the following week.
#ADGIFTED all opinions and thoughts are my own, I choose a genre I enjoy and authors I love to read.
Revenge on the Island: A compelling mystery with a dark twist (DI Liam O’Reilly mysteries Book 5)
REVENGE IS SWEET.
How do you solve a murder when you’re the number one suspect?
Fifteen years ago Patrick Finney was sentenced to life for the brutal murders of four women. It was one of the most high-profile cases in Irish history and one that defined Detective Inspector Liam O’Reilly’s career. O’Reilly was instrumental in bringing Finney down.
Now Finney has escaped from a high-security prison and he’s not content to stay on the run.
He wants revenge and he’s prepared to stop at nothing to get it.
Abandoned by the very people he’s employed by O’Reilly finds himself in a predicament that leaves him running out of options. There is only one man who can help him. But it’s a man he vowed he would never contact again, and the consequences of his association with this phantom could be far worse than O’Reilly could ever imagine.
When the hunter becomes the hunted the rules of the game have to change.
This is a chilling mystery that O’Reilly will never forget.
BOOKS BY STEWART GILES
DS JASON SMITH SERIES Book 0.5 – Phobia Book 1 – Smith Book 2 – Boomerang Book 3 – Ladybird Book 4 – Occam’s Razor Book 5 – Harlequin Book 6 – Selene Book 7 – Horsemen Book 8 – Unworthy Book 9 – Venom Book 10 – Severed Book 11 – Demons Book 12 – Deadeye Book 13 – Motive Book 14 – Australia Book 16 – Wishbone
DI O’REILLY MYSTERIES Book 1 – Blood on the Island Book 2 – Lies on the Island Book 3 – Fear on the Island Book 4 – Malice on the Island Book 5 – Revenge on the Island
DC HARRIET TAYLOR SERIES Book 1-The Beekeeper Book 2-The Perfect Murder Book 3-The Backpacker Trotterdown a box set of DC Harriet Taylor books 1-3
DS JASON SMITH &DC HARRIET TAYLOR SERIES Book 1 – The Enigma Book 2 – Dropzone Book 3 – The Raven Girl Trilogy: The DS Smith & Harriet Taylor box set
THE MIRANDA TRILOGY (psychological thrillers) Miranda Mistress Medusa
STANDALONE HORROR The Divide
Stewart Giles
Stewart Giles – Author Bio
After reading English at 3 Universities and graduating from none of them, I set off travelling around the world with my wife, Ann, finally settling in South Africa, where we still live. In 2014 Ann dropped a rather large speaker on my head and I came up with the idea for a detective series. DS Jason Smith was born. Smith, the first in the series was finished a few months later. 3 years and 8 DS Smith books later, Joffe Books wondered if I would be interested in working with them. As a self-published author, I agreed. However, we decided on a new series – the DC Harriet Taylor: Cornwall series. The Beekeeper was published and soon hit the number one spot in Australia. The second in the series, The Perfect Murder did just as well. I continued to self-publish the Smith series and Unworthy hit the shelves in 2018 with amazing results. I therefore made the decision to self-publish The Backpacker which is book 3 in the Detective Harriet Taylor series which was published in July 2018. After The Backpacker I had an idea for a totally new start to a series – a collaboration between the Smith and Harriet thrillers and The Enigma was born. It brought together the broody, enigmatic Jason Smith and the more level-headed Harriet Taylor. The Miranda trilogy is something totally different. A psychological thriller trilogy. It is a real departure from anything else I’ve written before. The Detective Jason Smith series continues to grow with book 16 recently published. The first 5 books in the Detective Liam O’Reilly series are now available.
The fifth book of this series, but trust me when I say, you don’t have to had read the previous ones, you will soon get the vibe and feel of the island Guernsey and the personality of O’Reilly. But if you can read them in order you will be more familiar with characters.
Just when it all feels quiet and you should be able to relax, that’s when you know something big is going down, but I never foresaw the man himself being framed for murder!!
Time for the past to come hunting for O’Reilly, and will he be able to convince the new investigators he’s innocent and that the culprit is on the island seeking their revenge? And the real question on everyone’s lips is, will Bram ever use the cat flap??
It’s been cold this weekend, and the body I have requires a lot of physio, which then means a lot of recovery down time, and these books just perfectly fill my time. I get so involved into the book the characters feel like I actually know them at this point. What better ways to spend time on dark chilly evenings.
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