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Date: 01 January 1970 00:59:59
But I've been quite busy. Two weeks of term plus a weekend in Dublin and preparations for my brother's wedding mean I've been pretty busy. I was on strike yesterday (again) and again went shopping... i.e. spending money I wasn't making! but I bought a very cute pair of shoes, pink with flowers, most unlike my normal footwear. A bit tight still so I'll be wearing them round the house I think until they are broken in. A fly on the wall would see me in leggings, t-shirt and little pink girly shoes. If flies could laugh, it would.
Recent reading material:
The Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith. If I haven't rhapsodised about this author before, I should have. He writes about the small things in people's lives in a small city in a small country in Africa, and you feel as if you are there. In this book the Assistant Detective to the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency decides to set up her own evening typing school for embarassed men, and one of the apprentices at Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors finds Jesus and then decides girls are more interesting. In between these events the pace of life, the dust of Africa, and the everyday details of life are gloriously depicted.
The Unfortunates by Laurie Graham. Another excellent author with some great titles. Poppy only discovers her family is Jewish after her father dies when she is a teenager, because it wasn't fashionable to bother with "that kind of thing"; she has a rich and varied life finding herself, New York, Paris and rural England, the 20th century, and various other exciting things, including taking food and clothes to "the unfortunates".