CATCH UP
A lot of water has passed under the bridge sinc my last blog. Again.What's to report? When I started writing this I had just finished Middlemarch and had three days to read the (then current) book club book - A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin. It took me much too long to read Middlemarch because I hadn't been doing so much lying on the sofa. I should have been doing a bit more... see below. But since then, I've read a further book club book: Saplings, one of Noel Streatfeild's novels for adults. Also a Sci-fi / fantasy excursion into N K Gemisin's Broken Earth trilogy, a lot of a social and cultural history called The Allotment and now for some light relief, the first of Trollope's Palliser series. All that just to show how long it's been. There was a good allotment harvest of tomatoes (no blight, no blight, no blight, nooooooo blight), sweetcorn, cucumbers, beans. Pumpkins weren't bad but courgettes and summer squash were a bit thin on the ground...