St Pauls & Boswell...

Just been re-reading some of my rambling on here - came across this one http://lendal.blogspot.co.uk/2006/10/plans-plans-plans.html

particulary the bits about James Boswell.  Went for another wander on Thursday & in The National Portrait Gallerey found the man himself...

 Looked deep in his eyes and told him I KNOW him now - I'm up to 1778-1782, when his father dies & he becomes the Laird of Auchinlek...he really was a bastard to his wife and kids (not in a harsh brutal way - just lack of contact)...prostitutes... alcoholism...a father who patently is more than dissatisfied with his offspring...BUT he does recognise this...to quote

"It is unpleasing to observe how imperfect a picture of my life this journal presents. Yet I have certainly much more of myself  thus preserved than most people have."

 My fave coffee spot in Leicester Sq...

 View from coffee spot Tate Modern...

 St. Paul's from the Tate...

Rainbow over St Paul's  - from the South Bank...

It's been a while....again, but there and then, no one reads this anyway...

It's Friday, it's nearly May and at last we've had a modicum of reasonable weather (with some dirty showers thrown in of course, can't expect anything else!!).

So, what's gone down in the world of the Fazey-Wood since I last spoke?

Work wise, Suzie's been on the up after her mid life crisis of the winter!! We've had an OFSTED at school that's left everyone with a very deflated feeling - not that we were bad, but just they came, sauntered around and vanished after finding the most irritating of points to score against us with what has appeared to me (being just a minion) little or no explanation!!

Never mind, we finished the week with a wine and quiz party to raise funds for the Friends of the school .... which meant last Saturday was a bit of a fuzz!!

I've started wearing a suit and other 'smart' attire - just to confuse everybody and get them to believe I might be good at my job:-)

Family wise we're all doing fine, aren't you Debs and Claire?

Had a good Easter - went to West Fleet for our now traditional camping visit with Suzie's wonderful nephew Aaron ...

fun fishing....(no WE didn't catch anything)

- brrrrrr and windy! Quite comfortable - although we did have to buy a smaller tent as our usual one decided it wanted to be a parachute in the wind...(the sleeping bag AND quilt kept us warm. What a new toilet block there - underfloor heating in FULL bathrooms!

Sunset at West Fleet - Suzie's work...

I'm going to make the effort to fill in this at least weekly...just read a book by a Tory (rich geezer!) politician from late 19th early 20th century - Herbert Maxwell. Whilst very bland in itself , he makes the point that we can all leave a footprint in the sand for those who follow can look at. (A bit deep for this time of the day - It's 6 something here in sunny Bengeo).

Must get back to the Friday stuff as well...

books and things...

100 top books,,,,

http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html

how many have you read?

perhaps they can be found here!!

http://www.fullbooks.com/