How To Celebrate National Poinsettia Day?🎄🤔💭

Every December 12th

Candice Fox Facebook Post

"Let us all have a moment of silence for the poinciana/poinsettia mix up in Gone By Midnight, about which I got 14 letters and counting ..."

Candice Fox third from the left
at The Loft in 2024

Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret?🎅🤶🎁🎄😶

Don't ask me what that tree is:-)

At the 2024 Byron Writers Festival:
 the ethics of crime writing

Candice Fox and Jane Harper at the BWF in 2024

I've only spoken to Candice Fox once in my life so far, and that was at the book signing table at the 2024 Byron Writer's Festival when I was getting a book signed by Jane Harper after Candice and Jane had been on a panel for crime writers that morning where Candice had told the story about readers writing in to her to point out the differences between a poinciana and a poinsettia.

I just pointed to the tree right in front of the signing table with art hanging from it and said to Candice with a grin, "that's a poinciana tree":-)

She probably thought to herself "smart arse little f#cker" as I was walking away, but I just thought it was ironic that she mentioned the tree mix up on the panel talk and here she is at a signing table with a poinciana tree begging to be noticed, right in front of her:-)

Artworks at the 2024 Byron Writers Festival?📕🎭🎨🖌

First full weekend in December

Candice Fox on the veranda singing books at the BWF in 2024

I knew what a poinciana tree was, because my late father was obsessed with growing one in our old backyard and his ashes were scattered under that tree.

Mt. Thompson: The Place Beyond the Pines?

The Poinciana tree in my mother's backyard
 where my father's ashes were placed

Mind you, if you had have asked me what a poinsettia was back in 2024 I would have said to you "f#cked if I know".

Francis Albert Sinatra (or as he would be known professionally, Frank Sinatra) was born on December 12th ironically:-)

730. Fearlessly Failing:
Crime Author - Candice Fox

The latest podcast episode I listened to featuring Candice Fox was the 'Fearlessly Failing' podcast hosted by Lola Berry from July this year.

I found it interesting, because they talk about their fondness for living in LA as Australians, and I visited LA this year and stayed in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on Hollywood Blvd. with my youngest son for two nights.

Oddly enough, in that podcast episode Candice talks about rescuing various animals in LA, including a pigeon?

And on my last day in LA me and my son stepped out of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in the morning to see a headless pigeon on the sidewalk next to a LIME scooter, with no head in sight.

LA is an OK place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there to be honest ... nothing to do with the dead pigeon on the sidewalk, either.

There's No Place Like Home?🛫🏡🛬

I haven't read any of Candice Fox's books yet, but I did buy her book 'The Chase' from an Op Shop earlier this year, which is the only one of two novels of Her's that has a Wikipedia entry, I've noticed.

795. Hot Seat: LA Christmas Highlights

I had to laugh when I did listen to a recent podcast episode where Lola tells Aussies the best places to visit around LA for Christmas and she mentions the "Dutch" town of Solvang?  

Solvang "The Danish Capital of America" 

Being of part Danish family heritage and writing about this town in a post earlier this year, I wonder if I should write a letter/e-mail to Lola explaining the differences between the Dutch and the Danish?-)

Let’s Buy California from Trump –
Denmark’s Next Big Adventure?

Solvang, California and The Unseen?🌏🛫🛬🌎🏈🦉👀