Busy and reading

St Marc

A couple of busy days stopped me from blogging.

Yesterday was a shopping day then cooking and gardening, followed by book club and book group friends back here for supper.

The good news is that the sun came out - not that we expect it to stay for long - and today we have been taking advantage. Jon has been clearing up more of the aftermath of the deluge and I've potted up some veg and planted some seeds. We are hoping for a better crop than last year but we're not holding our breath.

The book group discussed 'Saturday' by Ian McEwan, a book I thoroughly enjoyed. I hadn't read any of McEwan's work before even though I have a couple in the pile ready to read but I have to say that I really enjoyed his descriptive way of writing and it's the first book in ages that I have put aside, not to avoid reading it, but to put off the time that I finished the book.

The next book choice for that group was elected last night and the selection is Eric Newby's 'The Last Grain Race', that is for the June meeting luckily as I still have another two books to read before the end of May for our other group.