Hot, hot, hot

Ste Audrey


Just to wind up all you workers and shirkers out there in Brownland. It's 32 degrees again today and sun, sun, sun.

The pool is so inviting when the weather is like this and it makes up for all those weeks of rain, floods and garden water features that we seem to have only just got over.

It has given me the chance to sit and catch up quietly on paperwork; tax forms of various types and paying a few bills (ugh). I've also put in some heavy reading time and finished The Virgin Blue by Tracey Chevalier (not the most brilliant book I've read recently) and Random Acts of Heroic Love by Danny Scheinmann; this book didn't do anything for me to start with but I'm so glad I read it to the end where finally I understood the way it was written and found it very moving - especially the epilogue. I do recommend this book and if you, like me, find it difficult to start with, do stick with it, it is truly worth the effort.

The Virgin Blue is one of my reading group books for June and Random Acts was purely for relaxation. I'm hunting for a new book now, so many on our shelves that I haven't read yet.... Do I turn to the Sebastian Faulkes book that I've been putting off, or maybe go for one of the 'I moved to France and wrote a book about it' books that are not quite as alluring as they were, except to compare notes. I could have another go at Bill Bryson's 'Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid' which Jon laughed aloud at the other day when he was reading it, but I didn't find quite so amusing, or the gentle 'Trowel and Error', Alan Titchmarsh's autobiography.

On the other hand, I have a year's worth of foodie magazines that really need culling, scissors in hand to cut out the best of the recipes. Or maybe I will return to my embroidery or knitting or mending that has also piled up.

Nah.

It's the pool for me. Splash!