Brother P is staying and brought me a new book by Billy Collins called The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems. So we are continuing our practice of poetry at breakfast. Such tender, moving and yet humorous poems, we both love them. I would like to meet Billy Collins as I feel I would have instant rapport with him. Also he sometimes writes about dogs and that gladdens my heart. In one, he works out that he is 420 in dog years which is an interesting thought, I suppose I would be 615.
P and I are just about to go on the Bloomsbury trail to Charleston, Rodmell and Berwick church all of which featured in the Life in Squares on the TV. I have been round the houses before and they have excellent guides, but brother P hasn`t, so I will walk in the lovely gardens with B Wiggins, who I am glad to report has been a Good Dog lately so I have not had any further skirmishes with the Headmaster of Dumbrells Court.
I was a bit appalled by the TV version of Lady Chatterly`s Lover as the plot bore little resemblance to the book I remember furtively reading years ago, and what ridiculous hats Connie wore for walking in the woods!
Brother P read somewhere that it would be am amazing experience to see the sunrise from the top of Ditchling Beacon so we both crawled out of bed at 5.30am and together with B.W, we drove up there, but sadly it was a dire disappointment. It was shrouded in mist and there was just a weak glow in the east. Still we both felt invigorated by such an early start and were ready for a hearty breakfast, plus poems if course.