British Summer Time

I feel like starting a campaign for sticking to GMT all year round. I can never see what good it does to change the time forward and back. I must say here the weather in my part of the world seems to have paid attention and it's bright and sunny after the rain and wind of yesterday, so a welcome change. It takes at least a month for me to get used to the change and I wander around like a zombie for the first few days every time. I suppose it's good for us - but I remain to be convinced.

I started reading 'In the Red: the diary of a recovering shopaholic' by Alexis Hall last night. Very fly on the wall and compulsive reading because of it. (Strange I don't like reality TV shows) I am also reading 'Indulgence' by Paul Richardson about his world wide search for the best chocolate - naturally he is a self-confessed chocoholic. I've just about finished Edmund Crispin's 'Holy Disorders' - an excellent example of the Golden Age of detective fiction. Reading it makes you realise how styles of writing have changed and how authors assumed a must greater education in their readers. I really need to read it with a dictionary in hand as there are several words I had not come across before and I consider myself reasonably literate!

I'm now off to read the Sunday papers on line - cheaper than buying the real thing but not quite as satisfying as curling up with a pile of newsprint.

It really is snow today!

Yes I woke up to a white world today - about 3 inches of the stuff. It's gradually disintegrating now, and it looks as though the sun is trying to break through the clouds. So we have daffodils and snow! I have known snow at Easter when Easter was in April before and I think we should never be surprised by British weather. It does look beautiful.

I am currently reading Wendy Holden's 'Filthy Rich' - a blockbuster - 563 pages. No I haven't finished it yet, I've only got to page 320. It is good light reading but if I was the editor I'd have cut most of the first 150 pages as it wouldn't have altered the story as far as I can tell at the moment.

I'm also reading a book about one man's search for chocolate called 'Indulgence' - a must for any chocoholic out there.

Off to read the Sunday papers on line.