The gasp is because the advance copies of my new book, The Lion Classic Aesop's Fables, arrived yesterday. Amanda Hall (illustrator) and those great people at Lion have made such a beautiful book. Find Lion Hudson Children's Books to have a peek at it. I've already put one in the post to Mum and Dad. I hope they like it.
The gale is the gale in the tail of Hurricane Katia. Mercifully it hasn't been too bad here, but the trains were cancelled yesterday because of branches on the line and some of the hill top villages lost electricity. Various bits of the garden are where they shouldn't be, but our young trees are safe and as far as I can tell the roof is intact.
But - at 8.00 pm last night, LYS and I were all ready to watch University Challenge (which is just what it sounds like, a quiz show between high powered university teams) when we found that the TV signal was off. The local transmitter had gone down. We were both most put out, as that programme comes as a welcome punctuation mark in the day, and saddos that we are, we were looking forward to it. (Tony was up on a hilltop chairing a meeting by candlelight).
LYS and I agreed that we were suffering from First World Deprivation. We are fully aware that for many people life is a struggle for survival. We know that we are blessed in having home, food, security, freedom, etc, etc, and one night without TV is neither here nor there. But we couldn't help feeling disappointed. Monday night is University Challenge! Stop the hurricane at once!
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If you'd like to send Katia's remnants to America, we'll receive her with open arms! Right now, everyone is hungry for a downpour.
Next time the rain sweeps across the valley, I'll go outside, turn west, and blow as hard as I can!
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