First of all, comments on the picture of moi on my blog which has vanished. Have had emails off blog about this as well asking Where has it Gone? Somebody has even told me it has made their day to see my smiling face when they log onto Random. Well, blimey is all I can say - never had that effect on anybody before I can tell you now. The explanation is simple, I need to update the banner to say I am no longer a commuting PA blah blah blah...and I have had difficulty getting it sorted. A friend of mine did that banner for me and while I thought I could edit it by using Paint program, which I did, I then discovered that all the empty spaces in the words jOttings and cOmmutinG were white and horrid and did not match the blue background and it all looked a bit weird. So after wrestling with this problem for about an hour, I thought Dash it and What ho (have to watch that I don't start falling into Wooster mode here, getting difficult this week) and abandoned it for the time being.
By the time you read this (fingers crossed I have set it correctly on Typepad), I will be in Leicestershire with my sister from whence we will be sallying forth to Hay on Wye (not the lit fest I hasten to add, I avoid those like the plague in case I bump into Salman Rushdie or Martin Amis) but to visit this place which is FULL OF BOOK SHOPS. Hay has been on my list of Places to visit Before I Die and as I am now fast approaching the twilight of my years and the grey hairs are sprouting (have been for some time actually but a good hairdresser does wonders), have decided the time has come. I have copious lists of books to Look out For and have transferred a little bit of mad money from my savings account to facilitate any discoveries and off we go.
My sister does not like motorways so has devised a route for us which sounds fun. Part of it is down the Fosse Way a simply glorious road through villages made of mellow golden stone, slumbering in the sun, village greens where the sound of willow on bat is music to the ears, the Old Village Pubbe is selling foaming tankards of ale... ok getting carried away here so shall stop. But we are going near Hereford so may nip in and take a gander at the Cathedral and also Ludlow which has a Castle so all in all lots of goodies on the horizon.
As I do not wish any of you to repine during my absence, I am reviving Crock of the Day, that much loved feature of Random in the past for your delight so keep an eye out for that......
I am, of course, working on the assumption that I get this print on a certain date thingy right, and that typepad does what I tell it to do.
Au reservoir everyone.
