Sunday, 17 February 2008

Gardening

At last I got to spend a good day in the garden starting right after a hearty breakfast. I only came in at 6:00 pm when it was too dark to see and the temperature had plummeted to minus 17 degrees centigrade. Perhaps. It might not have been quite that cold.

Recent reading

I've read two books from the early 1950s. First Blood, Oil and Sand written by journalist Ray Brock between the Iranian Oil and Suez crises - a virulent attack on the perceived communist threat to the Middle East and one of the books that confirmed the start of the Cold War.

I also re-read the sublime Under Milk Wood set in the palindromic Llareggub and packed with so much insight and humour and so many brilliant characters: a hundred pages of literary perfection.