Book repair

I managed a fairly crude repair on my copy of D.K Broster's "The Vision Splendid" by pasting a tube of brown paper (a rectangle cut from a brown paper bag to three times the width of the spine, folded in three, with the upper flap glued down over the lower one) inside the loose back, which was hanging on a few threads of bookcloth. ( Read more... )

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Meanwhile I have been persevering -- or rather procrastinating -- with La machine à assassiner. It is not quite as bad as I had remembered (perhaps thanks to the fact that I now *know* the plot, and am not impatiently trying to extract it from a seeming mass of irrelevant verbiage!), but I feel that it's pretty symptomatic that I have currently reached page 148 of 200, that is to say three-quarters of the way through, and we have only just learned -- via a brief summary account -- what Gabriel and Christine have actually been up to in all the time since he kidnapped her dramatically at the start of the book and set everyone looking for them. ( Read more... )

Garden news

( Tomatoes )

( Pests )

( Poppies )

( Chillies )

The strawberry-plant I acquired last year (a free giveaway off a garden wall in the course of my travels) is now producing large ripe fruit, and I had some in a fruit salad ;-)

( Marigolds )

( Mesembryanthemums )

( Herbs )