Remember how I said that there are some trees around here that think it’s still autumn? (Photo taken half an hour ago.)

Newsletter: on fakery and Hittites.

Currently reading: Andrey Tarkovsky: Life and Work: Film by Film, Stills, Polaroids & Writings 📚

Okay, time to get this second career started.

Currently reading: The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Poems, Volume II: 1940–1973 by W. H. Auden 📚

Currently reading: The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Poems, Volume I: 1927–1939 by W. H. Auden 📚

A number of trees here are convinced that it’s still autumn.

Currently reading: Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens 📚

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Currently reading: History of England (Volume I) by David Hume 📚

We found our old friend Nelson! – missing for many years. (Long ago a friend from South Africa gave him to us.)

Currently reading: The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 📚

Chilly and lovely morning in the neighborhood today.

I don’t often read the New York Times, but when I do, I prefer to use lynx.

Currently reading: The First Kingdom: Britain in the Age of Arthur by Max Adams 📚

Currently reading: The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner by Wallace Stegner 📚

First newsletter of the new year!

First 🔥 in many months

FYI: I am doing Big Blogging again, and if you want to support that you can buy me a dragon.

It was 80º here an hour ago – tomorrow morning it’ll be 22º.

Cheers, London. Wish I were visiting you right about now.

Currently reading: Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens 📚

The Jesuit church, Mount Street Gardens, London (a few years ago). Looking through some of my London pictures this morning, wondering when I’ll be able to return.

Currently reading: Freud: The Making of an Illusion by Frederick Crews 📚