Sleep

After days of stress and not sleeping properly, to some extent due to a neck manipulation, I have finally managed to return to sensibility after a long night of relaxing sleep. Now I can plan and make choices for my days again, rest and read, do my art journaling and hopefully write again.


I read this book many years ago as a small child, fascinated by the freedom and sense of adventure I never experienced. Visiting a local bookshop, Poppies, I discovered a copy on special and purchased it. I am thoroughly enjoying re-reading this very British children's book, only discovering when looking for a cover to cut and paste that it has been filmed. I visited the Lakes District in 2007 and wondered where, of the many places I saw, which of them had been a part of Arthur Ransome's motivation for this story. I bought a copy with quite large print, all 500 pages may take me a while to devour, I will keep you posted. Do children have adventures anymore? Has the PC life overtaken risk, fun and family challenges so that children are ruled by decisions made in political offices?

    
I began reading this on my VRS a couple of nights ago. There was an introduction which took up quite a lot of reading time but last night I began with chapter 1, then promptly fell asleep. It looks to be a fascinating expose of such a well known fashion house and family. Gucci is a by-word for women wishing to have the best - clothes, handbags and more - the types of ephemera that those of us on a limited income can only dream about and probably have no desire to covet. This sounds like a very interesting read, I will post more when I have delved into the book properly.