(tea) break

[‘Objects around Teacup’ (2004) by Emily Patrick]

I am away at the moment on an extended tea and book break, so have just a few words.

[‘So Long, Farewell’, end of Season 3]

First: Ted Lasso.

I did not get the concept when first told about the series, completely misunderstood what it was about, but have now made up for this huge error by watching all three seasons in a very short time. It’s brilliant - very funny, very clever, very philosophical. I adore Ted’s homespun wisdom and the supporting references and anecdotes (favourite: the darts scene), Roy Kent’s epic swearing, Jamie Tartt’s extremely accurate and funneh Mancunian accent, Rebecca’s height and sheer glamour, Coach Beard’s reading material, and the whole team’s daftness. I need to watch it all over again because I haven’t laughed so much at a TV show in ages, and it makes a change from the usual dimly-lit bleakness and mumbled misery (how do the police ever work in such dark offices?) which I don’t watch but is on the background when I don’t have control of the TV buttons.

Also:

Second: wonky crosses

[first layout]

They just keep coming.

Third: High Wages

This 1930 novel by Dorothy Whipple, has just been released as a Persephone Classic with a detail from a wonderful Harold Harvey painting on the cover. I wrote the Preface (included in this edition), have read it many times, and can safely say I recommend it highly.

Fourth: grandmotherhood.

Even better than imagined.

Happy Sunday!