Its not been easy to keep up with the reading this week what with grand-parent duties (looking after our pleasingly book-obsessed Iris) and also visiting relatives. The most recent family visit involved a day on the River Thames in my brother in law’s boat – great fun, and appropriate for my current read – the excellent The Water Theatre by Lindsay Clarke (which I am forbidden to write about until the 9 September).
I’ve had a long period of reading a couple of books a week, but recently a few longer novels have been arriving on my doorstep and its not quite so easy to keep up the flow of articles here. I’ll finish The Water Theatre in the next couple of days but then if I read Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom and perhaps another Balzac as I intend to then review posts to A Common Reader may dry up for a week or two.
A brave man . . .
Anyway, to get back to our river trip, we were moored up at the end of the day when a boat came towards us carrying a rather unusual passenger on the prow. Fortunately my camera was suffering from what is known in photography circles as “blown highlights” otherwise I may have had to be more careful about posting the photograph here. The boat was coming into the outskirts of Reading so we were wondering whether the man would continue his voyage in the same state of undress.
Messing about on the river: bliss! Nearly bought a narrow boat to live on, once; but decided was more of a dry bob. The, er, diver is very clearly a wet one … Look forward to your views on the items in the current TBR pile. Bon weekend, Tom et famille!
It’s a hard life I can tell! Thanks for sharing … it’s lovely every now and then hearing about other parts of book bloggers lives, particularly when accompanied by photos as tempting as these.
Sue – thanks for visiting – yes, its a tough life being retired – I just hope I’ve earned it somewhere along the line