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Monday, February 6th, 2023 09:30 pmTime goes flexible/ wonky in winter, especially when winter comprises three seasons in four weeks. It seems an age since I went any farther than the two supermarkets and is probably less than three weeks, unless I've forgotten something which I probably have. Anyway, made it to the library and got Pratchett's biography, then had bulgogi at one of my two Japanese-Korean restaurants (the other is closed on Mondays) and came home. Body is the better for moving but is still twitchy about walking. My exercises are now all about quad strengthening and quad stretching because something is definitely going on with them. Massage tomorrow anyway.
I finished the last of the Timothy Herring books and just as well. It's unpleasant seeing someone in the 60s being miffed because he suspects his handyman of being insolent. Timothy don't half fancy himself. Also goes about tipping the lower classes for talking to him, which this North American finds insulting. Especially when the insolent handyman actually tugs his forelock, and not ironically either.
Anyway, Wilkins and Sir Pterry are a breath of fresh air after that. Though for some reason I stopped and read Babette's Feast in the middle of it, and Dinesen has cast an odd shadow on the day in consequence. Never realized before how basically unheimlich Dinesen is.
I finished the last of the Timothy Herring books and just as well. It's unpleasant seeing someone in the 60s being miffed because he suspects his handyman of being insolent. Timothy don't half fancy himself. Also goes about tipping the lower classes for talking to him, which this North American finds insulting. Especially when the insolent handyman actually tugs his forelock, and not ironically either.
Anyway, Wilkins and Sir Pterry are a breath of fresh air after that. Though for some reason I stopped and read Babette's Feast in the middle of it, and Dinesen has cast an odd shadow on the day in consequence. Never realized before how basically unheimlich Dinesen is.
