Well what can I say to you all save a huge THANK YOU for all the lovely messages left on Random and also many offblog which have been received. I am totally overwhelmed by such kindness and thoughtfulness and it has certainly helped me get through the last week. In the throes of organising everything at the moment and there is just so much to do and it is all totally exhausting. My sister has been here a week and has just gone home today, totally shattered, so I am now going to be quiet this evening and then tomorrow I am going to London to see my darling Florence and give her a cuddle. This visit had already been arranged and I was going to take my mother up to see her great granddaughter again but it was not to be. I am just so grateful that we had that lovely day together and have the pictures of the four generations which will be cherished forever.
Have been totally unable to concentrate on any reading as I am sure you can imagine and this has coincided with a burst of deliveries with parcels being delivered daily. If any publishers who have sent me books drop by and see Random then I hope you will understand and forgive me for a while. But, I need to read and have turned to old and familiar books to find something to make me forget all the upset and what have I alighted on? I pulled down the first Penguin omnibus of Mapp and Lucia by EF Benson and have just finished Queen Lucia, the first in the series, set in Riseholme before Lucia moves to Tilling and comes up against Mapp. Oh they are such gorgeous books and giggling at Georgino and his bibelots, Lucia and her husband, her Caro Sposo, her sighs as she finishes playing the Moonlight Sonata, the gossip, the backbiting etc etc. It is all quite wonderful and is just what I need at the moment.
Does anybody else have any favourite books they turn to in times of stress or sorrow? I would love to know.
Once again…….THANK YOU
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