Author: sroot

  • Sharpe's Enemy (Bernard Cornwell) & Sharpe's Sword (Bernard Cornwell)

    More Sharpe! This is a big series (21 Novels not counting 2 extra short stories) and I seem to be working my way through it. The trouble will be when I can’t remember which books I’ve read when I see them in the second hand book shop. I guess I’ll have to keep a list…

  • Harlequin (Bernard Cornwell) & Vagabond (Bernard Cornwell)

    I enjoyed Uhtred in Bernard Cornwell’s Saxon Series, go forwards several hundred years and join Thomas of Hookton on his equally enjoyable adventures. Thomas is an English Archer who’s father was a village priest. The story begins with the death of his father and the destruction of Thomas’s home village by European raiders and follows…

  • creating a new column in a MySQL select query

    I’ve been really busy since my last post (a whole month without a post!). Work is exceptionally busy and work comes first. Even my reading has slowed down a bit. I have several things waiting to be posted when I get time to write about them – including the first ever competition for this blog!…