today’s desk companions
my husband’s one true love
His lupin patch. There’s no competing with that.
lady’s mantle in the rain
Working in the garden this morning while the farmer was spreading manure over the adjoining field: good for my microbiome or great?
The Pothunters by PG Wodehouse
To ensure my TBR list is truly unmanageable, I recently set a goal of reading all Wodehouse’s works in order of publication and…oh boy. Dude was prolific. This is going to take a while.
Wodehouse’s first novel was The Pothunters, published in the UK in 1902. Thank goodness for Project Gutenberg because I don’t think I’d have had a prayer of finding it anywhere else.
There are flashes of the trademark Wodehouse wit and humour here, but this is definitely the work of a young writer who hasn’t yet mastered his craft. I enjoyed the glimpse of life at a British boys’ boarding school at the very beginning of the twentieth century, baffling though it is.
Recommended only for a Wodehouse super-fan.
cue six months of flower closeups
a Mother’s Day fox from Foster
another joke from Twitter
Guilty as charged.
flexible Evie
Granddog Evie has come to stay for the summer and it’s been fun having a small, furry character around who (1) likes having her picture taken and (2) doesn’t sleep twenty-three and a half hours out of every twenty-four.