Saturday 6th December - New day! New me!

 I don't know whether it was the camomile and lavender tea or the relief at having resolved a difficult problem, but I slept in for two hours this morning and woke full of vim and vigour. A new and strange sensation...

I think I'm in agreement with Peter Rabbit about camomile tea, but if it helps me get a good night's sleep I'll give a go.

I came across an advertisement for books by the foot, and books by the metre today;

I was amused you could choose by colour, binding (leather, vintage, orange spined penguins) etc. Not cheap! I wondered what the house clearance people were going to do with all the old books and paperbacks in my father's flat. 

We've been through them several times and taken out the ones we want to keep so letting them won't cause any twinges of regret. They say that they everything the least bit saleable goes to the giant boot fair at the Brighton Racecourse. Or to charity. They try to avoid landfill except as a last resort. There are a couple in this area which set out to be low-waste clearance companies. 

Anyway, seeing that books-by-the-metre advertisement sent me down a rabbit-hole tracking down the phrase 'books do furnish a room'.

It's very true. I loved seeing books in pubs, and was forever browsing them like a library when we there for a meal or a coffee. I have been know to ask if I could take one away to finish reading it.

This book is about the tenth in the series 'Dance to the Music of Time' by Anthony Powell. I haven't read this series, maybe I should have a look. They have such beautiful titles.

I was been listening to Handel's Messiah; the opening song, 'Comfort ye' is just perfect. This is the same recording as the one I've got.

Philip Langridge is the tenor with Sir Nevill Marriner and St Martins in the Fields choir and orchestra.