What a good read...

We're reading Hilary Mantel's book "Bring Up the Bodies" and it really is a very good read.  It's her second book in the proposed trilogy about the Tudor's reign in England and this second book is about the career and life of Thomas Cromwell.  The first book "Wolf Hall" is on Henry V111 and presumably the third book will be on Anne Boleyn.

Now quite frankly, I think the Tudors have had an awful lot of material written about them, and they're on television and they're part of the very fabric of our national consciousness but, and it really is rather a little but, I do believe somebody should write about another family of the ruling class, say the Plantagenet's, who I firmly believe, would provide a very satisfactory account of themselves.

Perhaps I should have a go....well, perhaps not me, just yet, but definitely somebody should.

We had a very entertaining book club meeting tonight and I've got my homework to prepare for next Monday, which I must make time to do.  As the "new girl" I really cannot expect to be taken seriously by my fellow readers, if I'm not prepared to put in the hard slog?

Our renovation work went very well today, done by Him, and my painting is coming along a treat.  There are, of course, still much unfinished areas awaiting a good coat of paint so I cannot be complacent, so I must be off early again tomorrow morning to get on with my allotted work.  And I do prefer the painting to the accounts work which I have taken on as part of my duty as works foreman..... somebody's got to do it, haven't they?

The dear SO's granddaughter with her friend called in this afternoon for a chat and a cup of tea, and then other friends called in to see the how the work is progressing, and I had to read my book for tonight's meeting; and then on Radio 4, this morning, we had a reading from a new book on Lady Nancy Astor who had been Nancy Langhorn before her first marriage.  I'm looking forward to hearing a second reading tomorrow morning.

And now frankly my dear reader...I simply must stop writing and retire for the night!

Daisy