Books

Books I’m reading, books I’ve read, books I’ve lost, books, books, books, books…

But what does it mean?

I remember when I was doing French exams and we had the passages to translate from one language to the other… I always did better on the French to English which I guess most people in my class did… But I always did much, much better. I think it might have been – and I […]

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An exciting present!

A very kind friend was thinking of me as she went through a collection of books… yes, I know I’m getting rid of things I don’t want, but I do want these! Aren’t they marvellous, just exactly my sort of thing! There is another book which my husband has adopted, called something like ‘A World of […]

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Namaste: a trek in the Himalaya

One of my first, very earliest memories, the sort of memory you can’t actually believe you remember but yet you do, is hearing about what was called the Conquest of Everest, of Sir Edmund Hilary and Tenzing Norgay, known as Sherpa Tenzing reached the summit of Everest. The two men, part of an expedition, reached the […]

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