Longer term readers may recall that we, as children, had comics like
The Dandy and The Beano delivered weekly to our home. These were eagerly awaited, but Chris and I had to wait until Mum had read them before we could get our hands on them.
Here, at Old Post House the situation has been turned around. It is Ellie who opens Jackie’s monthly Gardeners’ World and will have read it several times before Great Granny has her turn.
First Ellie inspects the inserts, then the magazine, then she shows it to Granny. Before she did this today she had sat on the floor reading it to
herself, as she did later with one of her books. Notice how gentle she is with the pages. She can identify each animal in this one.
I made considerable progress on “Kristin Lavransdatter”, well exceeding my 50 pages per day target.
The 60+ m.p.h. winds that had roared throughout the night did not subside until early evening.
Our good friend David Firth sent me a couple of e-mails of damaged fencing between our gardens.
This evening we all dined on Jackie’s spicy chicken jalfrezi with a milder version including boiled eggs for Flo and Ellie; boiled rice with turmeric; fried paneer cheese and plain parathas, with which the Culinary Queen, Dillon, and I drank Kingfisher beer.