Yesterday I returned home laden with books. Today I returned home with one further book. On returning home today, I made a phone call to a publisher; yesterday I read two books before going to sleep. Books make me happy.

(For those of you who are interested, some of them were in fact related to my essay: I found Hawksmoor and If on a Winter's ( Read more... )

My parents are now safely returned, after a very pleasent weekend indeed, by all accounts, and were muchly amused by the fact that I waited up for them, and also by the fact that the house was still there tidy and festooned with banners saying things like 'Happy Birthday!' and that there was a rather nicely presented pile of gifts and envelopes ( Read more... )