After the Parties

After a short world tour yesterday, visiting family and friends some quiet again today. I actually quite enjoyed myself yesterday, visiting friends and relatives, cycling from one home to the next, and almost from one world to the next. One home very empty and organised, everything neat and tidy, another completely full with stuff everywhere, two out of four with Christmas tree, all very, very warm. I loved cycling from one to the next, the lovely fresh air. And I am
glad I managed to end a day without feeling stuffed…. It was not a day of eating and drinking too much.

Today it is my own living room, no heating but another thick jumper on, and an old sleeping bag covering my legs. When we told my father-in-law that we would be getting a refund from the gas company he did have to laugh… It does help you keep a clear head though.

I am in the middle of re-reading Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”. It is the kind of book you think you know, I remember reading it a few times when I was younger, and I remember watching the tv-series. Not the recent one, but the one starring David Rintoul as Darcy, long, long ago. So I know the story and some details, but reading it again is quite a surprise, it is so much more fun somehow than I remember. I can still read it with my own Darcy and Elizabeth
in mind, though I must confess to seeing both David Rintoul and Colin Firth creeping in there once in a while, though I haven’t even seen the latest adaptation. Knowing the story so well, leaves plenty of room for seeing all those other observations in the book. I guess next it’s back to “Sense and Sensibility”, “Emma” and the others. It’s a good thing I have a long holiday.