Hello to all my lovely followers/readers and, once again, time has passed and I have not posted. I am unable to fathom out why as I have time to do so as we all have at the moment, but I am finding it quite difficult to get motivated each day as they merge into one doom laden one after the other.
That makes me sound miserable and lacking oomph but I promise you I am not. I am determined not to let things get on top of me and to live my life as normally as I can.
So what have I been doing? A lot of reading and my next post will be an update on those read and those currently on my heap awaiting my attention. As per, there are quite a few.
One book I have just finished and will be writing about is Box88 by Charles Cumming, a taut immensely satisfying spy story, more in the le Carre mode than, say Ian Fleming and much more believable. It is no coincidence that after finishing this I started watching the BBC series of Tinker Tailor starring the simply superb Alec Guinness as George Smiley. It is over forty years old and yet, watching it last night, I was finding it as fresh as ever. OK the picture is "square" on the tv we all have today and some of the colours look slightly odd, but the script and the acting are superb. I know the story very well and so there are no suprises but what I love about it is the fact that it is, for want of a better word, "wordy". There are so many scenes where the characters sit and discuss and talk and unpeel the layers of treachery and it is totally absorbing. And oh the delight of watching all the British thesps of long ago strutting their stuff. Wonderful. I am half way through and had to turn off as I was aware it was nearly midnight and if I had carried on it would have been 3 am before I finished. So tonight I shall watch the last few episodes. I remember when I first watched it my then husband and I would sit and discuss the ins and outs and decipher what was going on.
And the film, with Gary Oldman as Smiley which came out a while back is also very good.
OK I am rambling but it is 7 am and I have been awake for a couple of hours, I find I need less sleep these days, and so decided to sit down and write to you all. I would love to hear how you are getting on and what you are doing and reading and surviving. I have turned into a jigsaw fiend this year after a long time of not doing any at all and here are a couple of pics of those I have finished.
They are pure nostalgia and lovely and delightful and I really enjoy doing them. Sometimes I will get up to go to bed and then think I will just put one more piece in. Two hours later...
Back soon, I promise...
