1. Brian is at peace at last and the funeral successfully accomplished. A settling down process now or is there more to do with Gretel? Only eight - a small affair then. And tales of Brian from the attendees?
2. And John - that was swift. Pass my condolences on to Rosemary please. One month after diagnosis. Well I suppose one could say he did not have to suffer long.
3. The excitements here amidst the humidity was a call from Abbey National to ask me if I could confirm a cash transaction at an ATM in Thailand. Apparently I was supposed to give them notice when I go abroad and use my card. They are checking my every move!
4. The young man is full of beans and enjoying pureed apple and sweet potato. I take hold of the reins tomorrow for real, but with my experience why should I worry.
5. And the newspaper conceerns itself with 'hug a stranger'. The Thais are not good at physical contact particularly with strangers. As a piece of research a man and a woman stood in Siam square for two hours with a placard saying give me a hug. The man had two hundred hugs in two hours which included just five males. No results were given for the female.
6. The stay has begun with a customary massage which is always beneficial after the long flight. I have to keep telling myself that it is doing me good when the slip of a girl hurts me so much.
I cycled down to the Epicentre reacquainting myself with the gold bike.
7. Felix Holt is moving a pace. The riots are happening during the election and the balloting has had to be adjourned. Do I take it there were no ballot papers and they had to call out the name of the person they wished to vote for. I am not convinced yet about Felix Holt, not sure if I like him.
8. The legal side of the plot has baffled me slightly. The reasons for naming Bycliffe as heir to the estate has evaded me.
9. Direct well tonight. I looked on the notice board at the Epi Centre but no bridge mentioned.
Grandma~
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1 Good stuff. Keep reading. Felix Holt remains an account of a land in transition from a dominant agriculture to a growing (until dominant) industry.
2 Jane Austen, in contrast, writes about a stable world. She writes about a landed society, about people who do not work and whose pre-occupations are to do with pleasure. Meanwhile, the war with Napoleon is being fought, but we scarcely notice.
2.1 When reading Jane Austen, and George Eliot, it does help to have a sense of the laws of inheritance. Two constantly-important matters were the inheritance of estates and the protection of a woman's property when she married.
3 Yes, the elections, including the Eatenswill one, are open. No secret ballot. The Ballot Act was passed in 1872.
More to come tomorrow.
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