... and I Feel Fine

Beekeeping Paraphenalia at the Natural History Museum - Oxford

Listening to Drumming by Steve Reich.

Some books finished and on the go - selection follows.

Second Volume of Michael Palin's Diaries completed at second attempt - much is interesting though I always get the feeling that they have been edited far away from what they look like on the raw, white page of the original notebooks. Just started Tickling the English by Dara O Briain which is such an easy read that I'm tempted to jettison it as too easy even for a palette-cleanser. To read in future is the Kindle Edition of Peripheral Vision by Patricia Ferguson which was one of the books on A Good Read last week and was made to sound intriguing - at 288 Earth Pennies what is to be lost?



Musical Instruments at Snowshill Manor

 I was pleasantly surprised to discover that flashless photography is now allowed at Snowshill Manor where previously it was by appointment only. The house is somewhat dark and meant that only certain pictures came out as I'd not brought a tripod - must remember for next time. The boy seems to have lost his clock obsession which has heavily indulged when he was carried around last time we visited. He seemed more interested in the fact that you could see the lower storeys through the holes in the floors of the upper ones.