If You Pull on My Tail I’ll Get in a Rage
Many, many books have been read since I last wrote anything. This may not be the correct order and may not be complete but here goes anyway.
Winter Holiday by Arthur Ransome – a nice happy tale to sooth the strange and chaotic thoughts that keep me awake. Poor Nancy gets mumps and they all an extra month off school while the lake freezes over – brilliant and why did it never happen to me?
Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze from the New Scientist. I learnt all sorts of stuff from this – a lot of myth-busting.
Michael Palin’s Diaries – 1969 –1979 – The Python Years – he is still a nice man and this made me get :-
Hemmingway’s Chair from the library – A novel from Mr Palin in which a mild-mannered Post-Office counter manager learns from the fat, beardy one how to stand up for himself – sort of.
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons – Julie Birchill says that this is possibly the funniest book ever written and she may be right. This is a satire on the rural novel, which I failed to understand when it was on TV. The book is much better.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig. I have had this book for years and never finished it. Still mightn’t.
Some book about Prime Numbers by the second bloke to present Mind Games on BBC 4 – (Marcus du Sautoy but I may have spelled that wrong).
