I spent three hours yesterday as part of a team running, walking, clambering and sliding around lots of very steep muddy countryside looking for very specific portions of it (rogaining), which actually went better than I'd feared given that my co-navigator got us lost about eight times on the way to the actual event. Today, therefore, I am doing a ( Read more... )

Everything else I read in December that I haven’t mentioned earlier. I did a lot of travelling this month, which means a lot of reading, but this is still a little startling. Still haven't mentioned Paul Park's A Princess of Roumania, but I have The Tourmaline to read, and will get to it then.

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