Read, learn and inwardly digest

Met with various friends over the holiday weekend, and one asked what I read. Given how much Dan and I like our books, I found it quite hard to answer, and having been mulling this one over since. Part of the issue comes from the fact that we have different reading habits at different times. …

Recherche de biscuits perdu

I shall start this blog with a couple of literary references, neither as yet checked. My French is also not strong enough to be sure whether biscuits needs ‘perdu’ or ‘perdue’. Anyway, Proust wanted to do a bit of rediscovering of the past, and managed something like that through the (for him) evocative taste of …

Like something almost being said

“The trees are coming into leaf // Like something almost being said”… …and I feel a need to quote Philip Larkin.  Have been leaf watching every morning on the way to work, and now, thanks to clocks change on Sunday, even on the way home too.  The wonders of evening daylight. For Fall in the …