Through a glass darkly – 173

Madeleine Bunting: The Plot: a Biography of My Father’s Acre I have been reading a difficult to categorise book by Madeleine Bunting, a former Guardian journalist. The book is an oblique history of her father and the small plot of land that he loved on the edge of the North Yorkshire Moors. Her father, JohnContinue reading “Through a glass darkly – 173”

Through a glass darkly – 164

Susie was being picked up for her op at 8.35am. She was on a strict fast and looked enviously at my cup of tea. Which left me to have a shower and go down to the breakfast room in the basement. Where I talked to my neighbours from Anglesey. And supplemented my scrambled egg andContinue reading “Through a glass darkly – 164”