reading: The Day Job 1 March 2023 Rainy cold weather continued, and I continued to read. I didn’t mind that I didn’t have the next in the Minack Chronicles, because I had received a copy of Mark Wallington’s The Day Job, which I had learned about it in his hilarious memoir, 500 Mile Walkies. I had been eagerly waiting […] https://tanglycottage.wordpres....s.com/2023/03/20/rea
reading: A Cat Affair, Sun on the Lintel late February 2023 While waiting for the next book in the Minack Chronicles, I read Life After Life by Kate Atkinson. Wonderful, and my head got floaty when I suddenly figured out the whole premise of the book (after feeling confused). A reviewer correctly said that within the book is the best Blitz novel ever […] https://tanglycottage.wordpres....s.com/2023/03/19/rea
reading: Guild of the Garden Lovers late February 2023 Some years ago, I was thrilled to become Facebook friends with Anne Wareham, author of The Bad Tempered Gardener (which I blogged about here). She recommended to me the books of garden memoirist Marion Cran, long out of print. I adored them, meant to blog about them, and got too busy to […] https://tanglycottage.wordpres....s.com/2023/03/18/rea
reading: A Cornish Summer, Cottage on a Cliff late February, 2023 I continued with the next of the Minack Chronicles, reentering the Cornish cliffside world of Minack Cottage, with its flower farm, cats, donkeys, and wildlife. If you would like to see an old television show that was made about Derek and Jeannie’s world, broadcast in 1971 around the time when these books […] https://tanglycottage.wordpres....s.com/2023/03/17/rea
reading: Lama, and The Way to Minack late February 2023 I continued immediately with the next book in the Minack Chronicles, A Donkey in the Meadow, and then Lama, in which a darling little black cat joins the household. I was learning that Derek Tangye told the same stories at the beginning of each book. He will remind us of how he […] https://tanglycottage.wordpres....s.com/2023/03/16/lat