Thursday, May 26, 2005
Phew! What a scorcher!!
Well, summer has finally arrived in the Loire - after an unseasonally cool start, we are now getting temperatures of over 30 C, and so had our first dip in the neighbouring hotel pool - unfortunately our little gite does not have it's own pool, but it's not far to the hotel and we can use theirs whenever we want! I have to say, about 3.30pm, once our morning work is done and we've got an hour or so to while away before thinking about late afternoon tasks, it's the perfect time for a dip!! This weather is set to last for a few days at least - the humidity may then set off some thunder storms!!
Reading Corner...
I've been using spare moments to catch up on some reading, although Gerwyn is devouring books at an alarming rate!! So far, I've read "Blindness" by Jose Saramago - Portuguese Nobel Prize winner (but translated into English!)- this book was courtesy of Laura at Christmas, and I never got round to starting it during the winter! It's about a sudden highly contagious blindness that sweeps through an entire country, and those initially infected are sent to a dis-used mental hospital in an attempt to contain the spread of the blindness - this fails, and the book tells the story of the first few sufferers, and how they deal with the enforced confinement in the hospital, and the impact of the blindess on the whole of society. It's written in an unusual but gripping style, and was very thought provoking. Thanks Laura - a really good read, and I'd never of picked it up otherwise!
I'm now racing my way through Dan Brown's "Deception Point"; I never got round to reading The Da Vinci Code over the winter, although I think most of the staff and a substantial number of the guests did!! This one is a pretty gripping read, regardless of how much truth there is behind it!!
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Well, summer has finally arrived in the Loire - after an unseasonally cool start, we are now getting temperatures of over 30 C, and so had our first dip in the neighbouring hotel pool - unfortunately our little gite does not have it's own pool, but it's not far to the hotel and we can use theirs whenever we want! I have to say, about 3.30pm, once our morning work is done and we've got an hour or so to while away before thinking about late afternoon tasks, it's the perfect time for a dip!! This weather is set to last for a few days at least - the humidity may then set off some thunder storms!!
Reading Corner...
I've been using spare moments to catch up on some reading, although Gerwyn is devouring books at an alarming rate!! So far, I've read "Blindness" by Jose Saramago - Portuguese Nobel Prize winner (but translated into English!)- this book was courtesy of Laura at Christmas, and I never got round to starting it during the winter! It's about a sudden highly contagious blindness that sweeps through an entire country, and those initially infected are sent to a dis-used mental hospital in an attempt to contain the spread of the blindness - this fails, and the book tells the story of the first few sufferers, and how they deal with the enforced confinement in the hospital, and the impact of the blindess on the whole of society. It's written in an unusual but gripping style, and was very thought provoking. Thanks Laura - a really good read, and I'd never of picked it up otherwise!
I'm now racing my way through Dan Brown's "Deception Point"; I never got round to reading The Da Vinci Code over the winter, although I think most of the staff and a substantial number of the guests did!! This one is a pretty gripping read, regardless of how much truth there is behind it!!
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