Bicester, Bike Show, and Ikea

Spent four days up near Stratford. Went to Bicester village for some clothes shopping. A coat from Reiss, some shoes from Prada, a tshirt from Paul Smith, and a scarf for Jo from Vivien Westward. Then Bike show on the Thursday. A new helmet from Davida. Ikea on Friday for a white sideboard. The. Home on the Saturday. We were both very very tired!    

Good Saturday on the boat and then Sisters of Mercy concert

An excellent day The boat with Joanne. Simon and Rachel also on their boat Then the Sisters gig with Joanne and Eleanor 

 

Alain Robbe-Grillet - The Voyeur

A Nouveau Roman telling the storey of a watch salesman on an island and the possible murder of a young girl.

Nina Simone - Ne me quitte pa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rJ_sgv645o

simply amazing

Martin Amis - House of Meetings

An excellent read. A storey covering decades between two brothers, and surviving the Gulag and love.

A hard read that reminds me of reading the Gulag Archipelago and Day in the Life

Simone de Beauvoir - The Mandarins

An epic novel of French post war politics, society and love.



“The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy...It was a journey without end, leading to an indefinite future, eternally shifting just as she was reaching the present.”