My Gracious Silence

It's getting dark early again; autumn curling around the house. The last of the tomatoes have come from the vines, what's left there won't ripen now although there are still a few lettuces making a valiant effort.

Early morning darkness, with coffee and last night's washing up. A cat curled up on a box of books in a comfortable solemnity of repose. We're slowly re-decorating the book room, so the books are now in boxes decorating the rest of the house. A child next door is unhappy about something and the kitten is mewing upstairs as he wants to be let out, to come downstairs and eat grown-up cat food. Some things are a universal constant across species.

I have another hour of quiet until I need to start to review the material for the seminar I'm giving this afternoon. In the meantime, I skim the internet, drink coffee and eat toast made from Sunday's bread.

Reading: Copywriting, Mark Shaw; Unseen Academicals, Terry Pratchett, and How to Hepburn, Karen Karbo (about Kate, not Audrey)

Read:
Strata - Terry Pratchett. Yes, still. I'm on vacation and doing Other Stuff (mountains, snow, spa .. that sort of thing)

Bought:
No books.

Read:
Strata - Terry Pratchett. Interesting ...

Bought:
First Impressions - Nora Roberts: a Christmas hardbook, looked cute, probably something I read years ago, but it's a nice binding

Thanksgiving was just great fun - and very little time for reading.