This really is a book I couldn’t put down. Three days when I was supposed to be doing other things, I carried it about with me, depite it being a heavy hardback. Clever plotting, interesting characters, and i learnt a lot about american law, to boot! Not a lot of it was very edifying, but […]Read Post ›
Not an easy book to read. I had to give up, start again, try again, a little at atime. It took me a long time to read. Too long maybe. And yet I was fascinated. The story apparently belongs to the coming of age genre. I’m not sure. It’s a bit of a mystery, bit […]Read Post ›
Yes indeed, I am jumping on the royalty bandwagon. Quite incidentally really, but last week, when I was still in Poland, I received an email advertising a Jubilee inspired lecture in Kingston. Normally this wouldn’t have interested me at all – Kingston is an hour away, 6 30 in the evening is not a convenient […]Read Post ›
If there was a competition between the Russian Army and Navy, it would be a race to the bottom both literally and figuratively. The Russian Army has … The Sequel – Snake Island: A Hapless Horror Story (The Russian Invasion of Ukraine #72)
I have a lot of antique jewellery left over from when my mother tried her hand at being an antique dealer, and ran a little stall in the vintage market Antiquarius in the Kings Road in Chelsea. That was a very exciting and beautiful place and I loved going there to help. There was also […]Read Post ›
We came to Poland a week ago in order to sort out my mother in law’s funeral – she died nine days ago quite suddenly but peacefully in her sleep – originally we were just coming to visit her, but sadly she beat us to it. But this post isn’t going to be about her, […]Read Post ›
It took me a long time to pick up this book and actually read it. I was reluctant at first because I had somehow convinced myself it was by the author of the Thorn Birds, a popular book when I was at University in the seventies, but which I don’t remember particularly enjoying, though people […]Read Post ›
Today is my youngest daughter’s birthday. Just over a week ago she got married to the young man of her dreams, whom she has known for over ten years, and whom we have grown to know and love very much too. The wedding was spectacular, and one of my profoundest joys was being asked to […]Read Post ›
Good Friday always used to be the most difficult day of the year for me. When I was little it was the beginning of the most boring long weekend of the year. Friday was a bank holiday – there was absolutely nowhere to go, nothing to do, all the shops were shut, it was usually […]Read Post ›
Once upon a time I used to teach creativity. Not on the sense of art or music, but as a way of life. I might publish the little paper I wrote as my starting point, heavily influenced by some really creative practitioners, but that is not my purpose today. Today I will only address one […]Read Post ›
Life Through Basia's Eyes 