#threethings.

A springboard into the next labyrinthine burrow… This is a place for me to hold forth on matters both serious and silly. You are invited to participate. Daylight saving allowed an extra hour of reading in the evening, should I have needed it (which I did), for in recent weeks there has been much harvesting of quotations, scribbling of notes and affixing of sticky tabs to anything that looks…

From slothful September to nonstop November This is a place for me to hold forth on matters both serious and silly. You are invited to participate.  With winter bearing down on us, I thought it time to release one of my wildly erratic catch-ups into the blogosphere, because as you must know by now, in order to accommodate my present unpredictable ways, not to mention my snail-powered reading…

Reading, Watching, Doing This is a place for me to hold forth on matters both serious and silly. You are invited to participate.  Much has happened in both a bookish and non-bookish respect since my previous Three Things post in April. I have enjoyed a handful of pleasant staycations, allowing me the occasional breather between visits to see my nonagenarian mother in hospital, where she has been…

Reading, Watching, Thinking This is a place for me to hold forth on matters both serious and silly. You are invited to participate. Throughout March I had the disquieting sense of having overlooked something of importance – you know, that feeling of having left something behind (like my handbag in the ladies’ loos) or missed a date of significance (I kept imagining a large speech-bubble over my…