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Tesco really entering the spirit of Valentines Day. Don't forget to buy your beloved a bottle of washing up liquid for Feb 14th!

A pile of freshly baked sones, paper Christmas tree decorations in red and gold with golden stars can be seen behind

The sales have been counted and verified...

We can now reveal we served an amazing 2.7 MILLION SCONES over the year.

Plus, every single bake and brew you've bought at one of our cafés directly supports our work looking after the places you love. Thank you.

Always good advice...

Lisbon likes a big Christmas tree

At least you are wearing underpants!

Or use AI and then argue that AI is correct and the website is wrong!

I was more worried by the 3 floor high flamingo

Las Palmas is a very strange place...

Professor Higgins lied, the rain in Spain does not fall mainly on the plain!

Paper crafted animals tucked up on a warm bed. Animals include a rabbit, cat and owl

When it’s grey outside and you just want to stay wrapped up in bed.

Photo: Ickworth Estate

Mincemeat pancakes my Fanny Fave!

Just finished my last book review of the year and also finished writing the @nordicwatchlist.bsky.social Top 10 Books of 2025 list. Who will get the coverted 'Book of the Year' crown? Well that would be telling! Some interesting stats though...

That means I have 12 working days left this year!

Festive viewing started...repeat viewing of murderous Norwegian Barn Elves

The Winter Warriors by Olivier Norek - Book Review Nordic Watchlist reviews The Winter Warriors by Olivier Norek and discover why this novel is both harrowing and essential.

Latest review for @nordicwatchlist.bsky.social Olivier Norek’s The Winter Warriors. Discover why this novel is both harrowing and essential...

@orendabooks.bsky.social

#BookReview #WinterWarriors #OlivierNorek #BookslSky

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Latest review for @nordicwatchlist.bsky.social Scars of Silence by Johana Gustawsson, published by @orendabooks.bsky.social 20 Nov. A crime thriller that’s as human as it is haunting.

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#BookReview #ScarsOfSilence #JohanaGustawsson #BookSky #LidingöMysteries

The Winter Job by Antti Tuomainen - Book Review Read Nordic Watchlist's The Winter Job by Antti Tuomainen - Book Review. The Finnish author's latest novel is out now and published by Orenda Books.

A madcap road trip across frozen Finland in Antti Tuomainen's The Winter Job. Published this week by @orendabooks.bsky.social

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#BookSky #TheWinterJob #DarkComedy #Finland

After 7 years my final visitor day on Orford Ness is done and dusted...departing NT 20 January

Love this story from the Royal Signals today, a war horse given the freedom of the barracks including attending mess dinners...

The Wake by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir - Book Review Nordic Watchlist reviews The Wake by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir - the gripping second novel in the author's Black Ice series.

In The Wake, the gripping second novel in Yrsa Sigurðardóttir’s Black Ice series, 5 university friends reunite on Iceland’s Westman Islands for a funeral, but a chilling note and a rising body count suggest their past is far from dead.
@hodderfiction.bsky.social
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Happy 40th Birthday to Les Miserables, a show that loomed large in my early career.

A Lethal Legacy by Guđrún Guđlaugsdóttir - Book Review Ever wondered what secrets are hiding in a quiet Icelandic farmhouse? In Guđrún Guđlaugsdóttir’s A Lethal Legacy, journalist Alma Jónsdóttir dives into a family mystery after an elderly farmer’s death...

For Guđrún Guđlaugsdóttir’s A Lethal Legacy, forget fast-paced action—this story is all about slow-burning drama, sibling rivalry, and secrets that refuse to stay buried..

@corylusbooks.bsky.social

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I misread that as The Sewing Machine and went 'huh?'🤣🤣🤣

Snowblind/Fadeout by Ragnar Jónasson - Book Review A decade ago, English readers got to read Snowblind, the first of Ragnar Jónasson's six-book Dark Iceland series. Now finally we also get to read Fadeout, the prequel that started it all back in Icela...

Snowblind, the first of Ragnar Jónasson's Dark Iceland series gets a tenth anniversary edition from @orendabooks.bsky.social including Fadeout, the prequel that started it all back in Iceland in 2009. Review for @nordicwatchlist.bsky.social now live...

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Unravel the Mystery of 'Isolated' on Walter Presents It says much about geopolitical tensions in the world that many Nordic TV shows, films, and books now include a Russian-threat subplot. So, it is with the eight-part Finnish TV series Isolated, now sh...

September reviews 12/12
Isolated – TV Series
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To Cook A Bear by Mikael Niemi - Book Review With the upcoming adaptation of Miakel Niemi's book To Cook A Bear coming to Disney+ in October Nordic Watchlist revisit the famous Swedish novel.

September reviews 11/12
To Cook A Bear by Mikael Niemi
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Black As Death by Lilja Sigurđardóttir - Book Review Nordic Watchlist reviews Black As Death by Lilja Sigurđardóttir, the final instalment of the Áróra Investigates series.

September reviews 10/12
Black As Death by Lilja Sigurđardóttir
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The Darkness - TV Series Review The screen adaptation of Ragnar Jónasson's The Darkness was always going to be highly anticipated - so did it live up to its expectations? Read our review.

September reviews 9/12
The Darkness – TV Series
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The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer by Ragnar Jónasson - Book Review In 1926 Agatha Christie vanished for 11 days - a fact Ragnar Jónasson uses as inspiration for The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer. As an Icelandic crime writer goes missing, dark secrets f...

September reviews 8/12
The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer by Ragnar Jónasson
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The Sleepwalker by Lars Kepler - Book Review Could a 17-year-old have carried out a brutal axe murder while sleepwalking and then forget all about it? In The Sleepwalker, the tenth installment of Lars Kepler's Joona Linna series we take a journe...

September reviews 7/12
The Sleepwalker by Lars Kepler
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