Another day of coughing and spluttering is upon me. I am glad, because it was much worse yesterday! This is a bind however, I do not get out enough and while I made it to Sainsburys I really wish to go further and enjoy the days blue skies. This explains more Daffodils.
However, with the aid of a bag of casserole veg and some chicken I did made an excellent casserole. Even I was amazed, and it actually had taste, lots of taste. Lots of chicken stock and black pepper also I note, and believe me you note the pepper! This is the first time I have made this, and I am amazed at my talent. Tonight of course it is cheese on toast...
Pont the cartoonist, understood the nation quite well. On 'World Book Day' this appeared on Twitter, and I think it sums people up very well. I tend not to give books away, I may wish to look into them again, and if lent they never return. I know this as I look at my bookshelves while asking "Where did that come from?" These days I do not meet the type who read books so much as I used to in the past, the Brexiteer is happy with the 'Daily Express' or the 'Sun' and the women tend to go for girlie books. The local charity shops offer many books, all too often rubbish girlie novels, and the 'Sue Ryder' shop which used to have many good books available cheap has gone downhill sadly in the past few years, new management I suspect.
I have two books I have finished sitting here, I may post them, but by that time I may have forgotten what they were about! Some books take so long to read, one here has 700 pages of small print, indeed, all his books are like that, and he writes many books. How do these people find the time?
I have begun a couple of books and already have found a glaring fault in one. This makes me feel very 'Holy Wullie,' but as I read I expect I will be put in my place as I go along.
Radio 4 Extra has a series 'The Book' by Keith Houston, on how books came to be made and on and on about them. 15 minute programmes, worth a listen if you can. It is amazing that from marks on clay tablets down in Sumer some umpteen thousand years ago, we have now so many books, also on phones and tablets, that I find it amazing that we are still so ignorant! From the number of sheep bought or amount of beer produced we can read any book from anywhere, now and in the past, via the internet, and so much is available still. The thoughts of great minds, the humour down through the years, the threats, and the routine daily operation of business, church and politics for centuries can be
read by us today. I think reading is great!
Unless you are reduced to reading this....
2 comments:
When Better WOrld books would deliver, we filled our shelves, but during Covid and after the system is unworkable, so I have to download books from Amazon, which I do not like doing, but there is no alternative.
When visiting my mother I would always make a trawl of the charity shops in Southampton and usually found plenty to read.
Fly, I have to use Amazon with book tokens, this because the family are too lazy to get them from Waterstones!
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