Saturday, 21 June 2008

I enjoyed a lovely day of rest and relaxation with family and friends. Jackie is knitting something that needs five knitting needles.

Recent reading

The Watch on the Heath by Keith Thomson is a pretty thorough account of the scientific and theological debate about evolution that climaxed with the great 1860 showdown at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Gammon and Espionage by Nicolas Bentley (who later illustrated Auberon Waugh's Private Eye column) is a comic spy thriller from 1938 that bridges the gap between PG Wodehouse and the Goons - not a gap that I previously thought needed bridging. In between I browsed again through Pilgrim’s Progress and was reminded of someone’s (Samuel Johnson?) observation that it is a book that “once put down, is very hard to pick up again”.