It was OK. I normally enjoy this sort of book a lot more (I’m sure I’ve read other stories of his) but I just didn’t get into it well enough to enjoy it. The story line is good though. It has some clever links to World War 2 history and I found myself frequently visualising the surroundings the characters were in. Definitely worth the 2 I paid at the second hand bookshop.
Partly to solve that spam problem, partly to save me some work in the future, the village website now has a sparkly new CMS. CMS = Content Management System and it will meant that I have to spend less time updating the site (as it will enable others to add things as well as me). It also adds a whole host of gadgets I’ve been meaning to add for a while, like a forum. There have been a lot of emails relating to peoples ancestors that used to live in the village, now they have somewhere to post information or ask questions. http://www.boughton-under-blean.org.ukk if you are interested.
Some people try and spam anything. I run the village website and have a little, simple suggestions form that visitors can leave requests on. The messages go only to me. Being a form, someone is now spamming it with links to websites trying to improve their page rank and visitor numbers no doubt. Only I see the messages so it’s a waste of their time and effort.