Sunday! Beginnings! Where we check the opening of a Peter Abrahams novel including those written under the Spencer Quinn moniker (and I get to write that strange work moniker, origin unknown). As readers of the Chet and Bernie mysteries know, memories of Peanut the elephant pop up in Chet’s mind from time to time – in CAT ON A HOT TIN WOOF, the latest C&B for example. Peanut makes her only actual appearance – a big one – in TO FETCH A THIEF, which begins like this:
“I smell trouble,” Bernie said.
Better stop right there. Not that I doubt Bernie. The truth is I believe everything he says. And he has a nice big nose for a human. But what’s that saying? Not much.
It’s a fact that trouble has a smell – human trouble especially, sour and penetrating – but Bernie had never smelled trouble before, or if so he hadn’t mentioned it, and Bernie mentioned all kinds of things to me. We’re partners in the Little Detective Agency, me and Bernie, Bernie’s last name being Little. I’m Chet, pure and simple.
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Bernie might not have as good a sense of smell as Chet, but he brings other things to the table.
Vito!….The Pug won Best In Show at the National Dog Show!…..Wooooo!….Wot a good looking guy!….heh!heh!
Premature!….My friend is trying to figure out if this “live” TV show is this year or a rerun from last year….snort!….Whatever it is we have never seen it before…snort! ….So Wooo Hooo! Vito!…chuffle!
Movie!…Does anyone here remember the old Liza Minneli movie “The Sterile Cockoo” ??….snort!….We watched it the other night and now we both can’t get that song out of our heads…..snuffle!
Come Saturday morning
I’m goin’ away with my friend
Well Saturday-laugh more than half of the day
Just I and my friend (my friend)
Dressed up in our rings and our Saturday things
And then we’ll move on
But we will remember
Long after Saturday’s gone
Hi,Rio! Mom vaguely remembers seeing that movie but couldn’t tell you what it was about.
Putter had his first chemo dosage today. Mom was a nervous wreck about starting this but had another heart to heart with the vet and decided to go forward with it. He handled everything today better than Mom. It’s an oral dose and he was a champ. He will be getting this every other day long term. Fingers crossed he gets better.
Tiny!…..The Sterile Cuckoo is a 1965 novel by John Nichols. A story about a young couple set at an eastern college in the early 1960s. The girl (Liza) is eccentric and quirky who forces a friendship/relationship with a conventional and unimaginative guy….snort!…Don’t think “Love Story”.. not like that at all….grunt!….The bond falls apart of course….sniffle!…Sad!
Song!….But the movies Song is one of my favorites of all time by the Sand Pipers….wheeze!
Adverts!….Has anyone else had it “Up To Here” with the political advertisements??….groan!