2. "If you want to ask me something while I'm talking," she tells her son, "Say 'excuse me'."A moment later, Alec touches my arm and says "Scuse me?" I marvel at my observant boy because this is not something I've ever tried asking him to do.
3. I am completely unable to put down Andrew Martin's steam train murder mystery The Necropolis Railway
which I borrowed from Nick. The hero, Jim Stringer's flat voice is hypnotically compelling and I find myself totally immersed in the seedy, smoky London setting.
