Tuesday, February 10/2015

Discover a review in The Guardian of Patrick Cockburn's newly published (this month) The Rise of Islamic State. Cockburn is our favourite Middle East commentator, excellent analyst of the situation in Syria and Iraq. Available on Kobo, so no sooner seen than acquired. Lovely being able to read a book covering contemporary events as it's published. So our out loud reading alternates between Iraq and wartime London.

Violent rainstorm in the evening - following more moderate raining in the daytime. High winds and rain driven horizontally against the windows.