A Disorderly Retirement
I think the greatest pleasures might be the ones that take you by surprise. I went to see Matthew Bourne’s version of The Nutcracker last Saturday and it was like nothing I’d ever seen before. I have to admit that I’m not normally a big ballet fan, although I’m full of admiration for the dancers….
I have just completed a jigsaw called High Jinks. Now, before you get any ideas, it is a very sedate picture of bookshelves full of books written in the late 19th and early 20th century about and (presumably) for English girls. I don’t think boys read books about girls then and maybe they don’t now….
No-one wants to be reminded of Christmas in January. I have to admit that this Christmas was a great deal better than last year’s, which is not a time anyone wants to be remember, but still it’s just so last year, isn’t it? I was brought up in a household where Christmas did not officially…
It turns out that a state of torpor is harder to maintain than I had imagined. I thought that a bit of semi-hibernation in January would be easy enough – squirrels seem to manage it without much problem, although how would anyone know? Maybe after a day or two those squirrels are thinking that they’ve…