Well, happy thought for those of us living in the northern hemisphere. Not only are the days getting longer - though not quite as long if you’re living on the north slope of a mountain - but the past ten weeks, the dark fifth of the year - are indeed past.
Would normally have been our day to meet up with friends at Blue Song for a drink and a chat but it’s been cloudy with ill timed showers so we give it a miss. Clouds not a problem but prefer not to get a wetting when halfway there.
But lots to read. Still reading aloud Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power, but alternating it with Claud Cockburn’s autobiography, A Discord of Trumpets which covers the same period in Germany - plus a good deal more in England, Hungary and elsewhere - from a very different perspective. Had become interested while reading journalist Patrick Cockburn’s biography of his father and did a search - not particularly optimistically since the book was published in 1956 - and pleased to find that it was available on Kobo. Even more pleased to discover that Cockburn senior is a delightfully good writer and the pages are peopled with a trove of eccentric characters and exotic places.
But lots to read.
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