under another sun

Rainy day in which I was sealed inside doing poems very well, and then accounts very ploddingly. Enjoyed Chatting to Anton who returned from the US, and to Mum and Mason, and Jenny Kendall Tobias from BBC Guernsey who called me about a long lost relative item she was doing.  I couldn't help. Off to Sainsbury's with Lorraine after work, which is always fun, and then I cooked. Not a Monday to set the pulses racing.     

Meh! Lorraine and I both slightly subdued with colds. Lorraine reading about leadership and cutting up pieces of fabric while I did some work for one of my clients - an interesting job, helping a new agency develop its tone of voice - and we took a walk in the drizzle, and I ended up buying loads of good tee-shirts at ridiculously low prices. Reading the interesting 50 Literature ideas you really need to know by the admirably clear John Sutherland. Surprised to realise I know more about current literary ideas than I thought. Although eagerly turned to the pages on Reception Theory, because I wasn't sure about what this meant. But it simply means how a literary piece is received by people or societies encountering it. A sort of phenomenology lite. Looking for an opportunity to use the word 'meh', but haven't found it. It signifies supreme indifference, and is being used self-consciously by some of my middle-aged UK facebook friends. A slow evening. Reading and eating a d...