Still here... just...

Jess has crashed out for a few hours... I'll have to wake her in just over an hour so there's not much point in me trying to sleep. Just finished Figures in a Landscape by Barry England - stunning novel and something I've had on my shelves unread and unloved for as long as I can remember. It's a second edition from 1969 and I think it belonged to my dad... not that I ever saw him read anything. He did collect these ridiculous red bound hardback Dennis Wheatley novels - I think the full set is still safe and sound up north - but I was never allowed to touch them. God forbid anyone should actually want to read a book in that house... not when they looked so nice and neat simply stood on display. I brought back a small pile of quite old hardbacks from the last trip so I guess I'll go pick one to start off as my holiday read. Still having withdrawal symptoms from the double whammy of Paul Auster and Cormac McCarthy. Looking around for blogs on Gothenberg I stumbled across Tokyo Style in Gothenberg - it's a great duel site dealing with both the city we're flying to and the city I want to return to the most. Great mix of culture and design bits and bobs and quite reminiscent of Jean Snow - not surprising as he used to blog there too. There is a related store (Kid Robot-ish I think) that I intend to visit... It's also where I nabbed the cool pic of the police car from a few posts back. Time to pull out that book and relax until we start panicking over where we put the passports... [Music: Lovage]