Sunday 11 February 2007

Jackie and I visited Mum to help sort out some of Dad’s countless books and papers: I never knew he had such an interest in the Pre-Raphaelites. We uncovered vast treasures of museum and church guides, and some first editions including several by the Armenian writer William Saroyan and The Road to Wigan Pier.

We spent the afternoon with Mum and she has immense dignity and a very positive attitude to the future.

In the evening, Jackie and I checked through a few boxes of books we’d returned with and then spent a very pleasant evening watching Foyle’s War, after which I started reading “Forever Freedom”, a 1940 collection of British political speeches and writings - good anti-Nazi propaganda.