Raining and pouring
Oh yes, it's autumn, all right. It's been pouring today, almost all day, and now it's dark and cloudy, with the barely visible moon that prophesies more rain. I'm going out on Wednesday at the latest, depending on the weather. I was invited to a tea party, for once, usually I'm the one serving tea. I hope the weather clears up by then.
The vest is ready, and it turned out nice and warm. The next project is almost ready too, it's another of the small, triangular shawls I've been knitting a lot of. Just wait till I get a digital camera, and I'll post pics of everything I knit...
The book for today is not a book, to be exact. It's a writer, P.G, Wodehouse, and his short stories and novels about Bertram Wooster and his manservant, Jeeves, in particular. I've been reading Wodehouse since my teens, and I've always liked his stories, and especially the language. It's been an influence on my sense of humour, and it's the main reason I enjoy British humour, this mythical thing that's always compared with American humour, and never with any other nationalities, as far as I can see. The stories are always about problems involving the confirmed bachelor Bertie and the harebrained schemes of getting himself or his friends out of unwanted engagements. Bertie also has a number of aunts, the most important being the terrifying Aunt Agatha, and the sporting Aunt Dahlia. The aunts frequently want to get Bertie to marry, or to perform some small service for them, and Bertie always fails spectacularly. Jeeves is a very clever man, who patiently gets his employer out of the tricky situations, often at the expense of some tasteless piece of clothing that Bertie has bought and that Jeeves disapproves of. The books are all sitcom, nothing to do with actual, historical happenings, although I guess most of them take place between the world wars.They make for light, pleasant reading, but I prefer them to chick lit, because the language is better, and also because the plots are a bit more varied, judging from the few chick lit books I've read. You might also like the series Jeeves and Wooster, with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. The tone of the series is very much in keeping with the books, as is the language.
Tomorrow is everlasting question meme day, see you then!
The vest is ready, and it turned out nice and warm. The next project is almost ready too, it's another of the small, triangular shawls I've been knitting a lot of. Just wait till I get a digital camera, and I'll post pics of everything I knit...
The book for today is not a book, to be exact. It's a writer, P.G, Wodehouse, and his short stories and novels about Bertram Wooster and his manservant, Jeeves, in particular. I've been reading Wodehouse since my teens, and I've always liked his stories, and especially the language. It's been an influence on my sense of humour, and it's the main reason I enjoy British humour, this mythical thing that's always compared with American humour, and never with any other nationalities, as far as I can see. The stories are always about problems involving the confirmed bachelor Bertie and the harebrained schemes of getting himself or his friends out of unwanted engagements. Bertie also has a number of aunts, the most important being the terrifying Aunt Agatha, and the sporting Aunt Dahlia. The aunts frequently want to get Bertie to marry, or to perform some small service for them, and Bertie always fails spectacularly. Jeeves is a very clever man, who patiently gets his employer out of the tricky situations, often at the expense of some tasteless piece of clothing that Bertie has bought and that Jeeves disapproves of. The books are all sitcom, nothing to do with actual, historical happenings, although I guess most of them take place between the world wars.They make for light, pleasant reading, but I prefer them to chick lit, because the language is better, and also because the plots are a bit more varied, judging from the few chick lit books I've read. You might also like the series Jeeves and Wooster, with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. The tone of the series is very much in keeping with the books, as is the language.
Tomorrow is everlasting question meme day, see you then!