The God Beneath The Sea or Cake#9
When was eight I got "The God Beneath The Sea", a novel by Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen, with illustrations by Charles Keeping. for Christmas from my Mum and Dad.
It is the novel, winning the Carnegie Prize for Childrens Literature in 1970, which introduced me to literature.
The book is a modern telling of the Greek myths, focusing on , Hephaestus, the Greek Vulcan.
Last week I mentioned the fact that my paperback copy from 1974 was in a dreadful state.
Today I got a first edition hardback copy from 1970 in the post from Linzi.
Words cannot possibly describe how I feel about this. Considering how my belongings have been recently treated.
Love comes close though. Yes. That's it.
In other news the kids' school had their Christmas Fayre tonight. The three of them bought, among other things, a very heavily ornamented fruit cake. Icing sugar roses. Filigrees. Marzipan (heave) and tiny purple flowers around the edge.
Jack has just eaten the icing off nearly the whole cake.
Twat.
And it's beginning to look a bit like Christmas...