…and am determined to stay back for a bit now. I am currently writing this with drawn curtains, all snug and cosy with my old dressing gown on, fluffy pink socks and cup of tea to hand and feeling so glad to be in my own little flat. I do enjoy going away and I enjoy seeing my family and friends, but I soooooo love getting back home.
Good weekend though hard work lugging boxes and furniture around and helping set up the fair in a village hall in Leicestershire. Not so well attended this time – having done craft fairs myself years ago I know how difficult it is to judge how it is going to go, sometimes very busy sometimes dead and most of the stall holders I spoke to said this was the case and they were used to it.
Night before I had taken part in a quiz night at a local bowls club and I, and two others, made up a team and we won! Thrilled to bits with this and came home with a nice bottle of good wine which I am going to save for Christmas and feeling very pleased with the outcome.
Drove home today in grey drizzle and lots of lorries chucking up spray so was glad to get off the motorway and I returned my mother to her nest and then on to mine. I had some tea and toast and sat down to watch last Saturday's Strictly Come Dancing which I have still to rant about (don't worry, I will….) and just as the results came up – my taping stopped. The show must have over run its schedule as I had set my timer, so thank goodness for the website and I could check the results.
Then I watched the first episode of Emma which I was eagerly awaiting and I have to say now that I simply loved it. I thought Romola Gari would be excellent in the title role and she was, Michael Gambon would be wonderful and he was and, I fully acknowledge I have changed my mind, Jonny Lee Miller as Mr Knightly was also terrific. Gosh all these superlatives. I know the script is new and only parts of it are pure Jane, and it may be a trifle modern for some tastes, but I found to my surprise that I did not find it jarring and the feminist stance, subtly done, in the argument between Mr K and Emma over Harriet's refusal of Robert Martin, was spot on. I am really looking forward to the next episode.
Thought: Much though I enjoyed the film of Pride and Prejudice, and I know it is never going to happen, but if they ever made another version, it strikes me that Romola Gari is the perfect Lizzy Bennett and, in my opinion, is a far superior actress to Keira K.
OK back tomorrow when I will endeavour to review in a proper and, hopefully, worthy manner Michael Slater's simply magnificent biography of Charles Dickens which I have just finished. Not sure I can do it justice but am going to have a damn good try.
What larks!
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