Adventures in Numberland has been pushed to the stack as this has arrived hot off the library man's van and despite the whinging over the supposed inaccuracy about the derivation of the phrase "Sleep Tight", it is a moreish and informative book stuffed with much more than the already-generous content of the BBC 4 programme which it accompanies. It appears that the BBC is far more prudish than Lucy Worsley in that she not only seems to delight in the juicier delights of home life but devotes whole chapters to them, though of course Pepys and friends have already alerted us to the historical predilections for rumpy-pumpy. The book manages to cover all classes though for obvious reasons, royalty and celebrity elbow their way in by virtue of being more recorded. From the show, it is obvious that the author enjoys joining in reconstructions but manages to avoid seeming like just another extension of the heritage industry.
And what else goes on? Well I still have a hole in my head .. which is nice, though it's doing it's best to become an ex-hole and I don't need to go back to see Mr Consultant for a couple of months. However along with the hole I have a dinge as well though I was warned.
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