1 Favourite tweet of the day, from a chap called Matthew Corroza – ‘no pain au chocolat, no gain au chocolat.’
2 Wink has arrived for the weekend. Weeza and co are coming over tomorrow and staying the night and Al and co are calling in for tea on Sunday.
3 Finally sent an obituary notice to the local paper. Here. Eloise wrote it for me.
4 I’d had three out of four nights wonderful, restful sleep. That’s now three nights out of five – still, I have a comfortable bed and it’s peaceful and quiet here. No mouse sounds since I put the traps down.
5 The wood I’m burning at present is very dry, so I have a blazing fire in minutes. I have to be quite careful in fact, mustn’t set the chimney on fire!
That is a wonderful obituary, and the photo captures ‘the Essence of Russell’ so well.
Did he really leave school at 25?
Pleased to hear that you are sleeping better.
I sent in a correction – he’d learned engineering first, then studied auctioneering in London – but they didn’t amend it. Never mind.
Just right,and such a beautiful photo!
Yes, it was the one the press photographer took at his last auction. It all seems a long time ago, though it’s not eighteen months yet since that happened.