My apologies for the extended delay but we flew from Vancouver, BC to Silver Spring MD and after two days on here via Dulles and Frankfurt. This is the first time it has taken me literally weeks to recover.
Then to prove I am not getting any smarter I presumed the hot weather warnings for old people were for old people and not striplings like ourselves I went out an tried to tidy the garden a bit in the current heatwave. Resulting in 3 days in bed feeling terrible and with no appetite.
On Sunday evening Aurelia’s son arrived from outside Barcelona with his 8 year old daughter and 7 month old dog Rufus, as previously agreed, I had forgotten, left them with us for two weeks. With all the garden available around the house Rufus prefers above everything else digging up the tomato plants.
On looking back I don’t know how I became so addicted to podcasts. Living abroad, in my case where is abroad, for so many years I subscribed to the Manchester Guardian airmail edition, it was printed on lightweight airmail paper, and next to the then International Herald Tribune, now the International NYT, and my favourite writer at the time Art Buchwald.
Once ensconced in rural France I subscribed to a variety of periodicals, switching from one political perspective to another and between the UK and the US. I remember variously The Atlantic, The New Statesman, The Financial Times, The NYT, The Spectator, The Economist, The New Yorker, Harpers and recently back to the Guardian digital edition. But then I seldom watch TV.
But today I have been heavily editing down my list of podcasts, I am trying to get it down to 5. This brought about by another dear friend dying on Monday bringing home yet again the salutary warning that time is limited. So no explanation required on that front.
Apropos of nothing,
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don’t know. W.H Auden
Stay well, stay healthy and please keep in touch, I always enjoy hearing from you.