I feel healthier just for reading about all this fruit!!
Oui used to make those small lovely little containers in a set of 6? of the tiny little glass jars with salted caramel in the bottom. I am a caramel fool. I used to devour them and as a result have all these cute little jars but unfortunately no longer do preserves and canning. They can join the boxes of other canning supplies in the barn. (I might take it back up someday. hahaaha) I just discovered Caramello bars by Cadbury in the supermarket last week. Hog heaven!
Day 20 - the next book you plan to read:My planning and my execution are two different things. I have a Quarantine Pile here. Literally. Waiting are The Dig, The Bachelor Brothers Bed and Breakfast, The Sanatorium, The Man of High Estate, the new Caesar biography, all in quarantine, like all my other new books, waiting. Waiting for the magic and mysterious day they are finally free of The Last Person Who Packed Them While Sneezing on Them With Covid. Maybe the Brazilian or African strain. They are hard to wash.
I know that sounds stupid. But two weeks from now, having had my 2nd Covid vaccine shot last Thursday, I will not have to Lysol everything Suspect From the Outside I touch in my own home and I can't get much pleasure out of washing my hands every time I touch a new book. So two weeks from now those books will be in my hands.
Till then I am reading for the upteenth time Bill Bryson's The Road to Little Dribbling. What a joy that man is. This morning we were in London, in Marks and Spencer and talking to a clerk about the fact they had removed the food halls there. The clerk was not helpful and he had gelled hair which Bryson took an intense dislike to, that, and the fact he was rude. Finally when the clerk said they had never had a food hall in that store, Bryson said well excuse me but you are an idiot. I have been coming here to M&S since the '70s to the food hall. And at that the clerk took interest and said this is H&M. hahahaa
And that right there made my day, because it encapsulates us all in one brief couple of sentences. hahahhaaaaaaaaaaaa
I am SO sorry he has stopped writing but he's good the upteenth time around, too.
Day 18 - the last book(s) you bought: All of the above and more. Waiting like we all are.
Day 19 - a book you thought was over-rated: The Seven Sisters by Margaret Drabble. Perhaps I was in a bad mood.
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On the gardening front the weather here is glorious, in the 50's and 60's and was in the 70's last week but too cold at night. Just got a shipment of daylilies for the new bed. I am determined to keep the weeds out this year. At Home Depot, I could not resist giant snapdragons, (I know, I know) but they are branched, each one is like four huge plants, and glorious but am having to bring them IN at night due to the 20 degree night temps. Tiresome. They don't want 20 degrees while still in pots, so I have a couple more nights to do this lugging about.
I am finding that if one just forces self to get out there AND dig when something new comes, there is no burden when the next shipment comes (surely they are going to stop, I must have been on some kind of spree there back in the fall). Everything newly planted looks alive, which is good. hahaaha That's pretty much all I can hope for, thumb is not GREEN.
