Winding Up the Week #483

An end of week recap “Ah those days…for many years afterwards their happiness haunted me. Sometimes, listening to music, I drift back and nothing has changed. The long end of summer. Day after day of warm weather, voices calling as night came on and lighted windows pricked the darkness and, at day-break, the murmur of corn and the warm smell of fields ripe for harvest. And being young.” – J. L. Carr (A Month in the Country, 1980) As prophesied in WUTW #482, this post is a little shorter than usual due to Mrs J’s riotous birthday celebrations, which will continue into next week with a few days in London. This, I’m afraid, means no further wind up until Saturday 19th September – from which point on I should have a clear diary for some time while we recover from nearly a fortnight of carousing. It is now Read a New Book Month – an occasion for readers everywhere to sink into something new between the covers. National Read a Book Day, observed in Australia, the United Kingdom and the USA,…