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This is a good mystery. I liked the idea of the early life of Aurora Teagarden and her friends. Although the actors are not quite how I imagined them, they were quite adequate. As I watched, I began to feel like I'd seen the story before in another Hallmark / Muse movie. The heroine's friend is getting married, but her fiance has an argument with a stranger at a party. The other guy winds up dead under the balcony of the fiance's condo, who in turn goes missing - very suspicious. Of course, that's a red herring. There's also a vengeful ex-girlfriend, who tries to run down the heroine when she borrows her friend's coat. I've come to the conclusion that I saw this around 9 months ago, when it was first shown in the UK. I guess I just forgot !

This is a very agreeable, undemanding show, just right for easy viewing over lunchtime! The basic idea is that people bring in furniture, fabrics, or other materials, to be repurposed, often quite radically. Indeed some of the results are really weird. Amanda Lamb is a genial host, and keeps things moving a!ing nicely. I think it's filmed in Essex, but I don't recognise the workshop site. It looks very rural, anyway. My one slight reservation is that it seems very similar to the BBC series "The Repair Shop", which works on a similar basis, but without the re-use idea. Otherwise, I think it's a good show.

This is a very funny episode, carrying on directly from the previous one. There are a lot of references to old-fashioned British murder-mysteries. One small point though - if the switchboard was off, how were the police alerted ? Perhaps Joe Maplin tipped them off, to shift any suspicion onto the sfaff, and put himself in th clear.