Good Morning

Early start as it is another busy day ahead.

In Ashford

I am now in Ashford having had to forgo the free breakfast at The Quays. So instead i had a Sausage and Egg McMuffin and coffee.

I have this observation job again ,and then three phone shop visits before i head off to Maidstone for a supermarket visit after five this afternoon.

So most of the day will be spent in Ashford. The weather is sunny and feels like another great Spring day.

20 Problems Only Book Lovers Understand

From the Good Reads website - members were asked the twenty biggest problems bibliophiles face.

1/ "The urge to buy books even though you still have too many books to read at home."

2. "Feeling sad for people who don't really exist."

3. "RUNNING OUT OF SHELF SPACE!!!" Kim

4. "Getting interrupted when you are on the last few pages of a book."

5. "The book hangover. When a good book finishes but you can't start a new one because you're still too immersed in the last book to move on."

6. "Wanting every book in a library section but knowing it is impossible to read all of them."

7. "Waiting so long for a sequel that you forget what happened in the first book."

8. "When you're lying in bed and it's all cold in your room—and the hand holding the book freezes to death, even though the rest of you is warm under the blankets."

9. "Finishing a book and having to wait a whole year to read the next in the series."

10. "Trying to keep the book dry while reading in the bath."

11. "Ordering a book online and getting the book with the movie cover. A book with a movie cover just doesn't feel the same."

12. "Not being able to read and eat lunch at the same time because you don't have a third arm."

13. "When someone borrows your book and doesn't return it for ages!"

14. "Deciding. Which. Book. To. Read. First."

15. "Getting to a 'can't stop reading' spot in the book and it's 3:00am."

16. "When you have a book with you, but it's not the one you wanted to read right then."

17. "Being forced to stop reading by other obligations, but choosing to ignore those obligations. Then getting in trouble."

18. "Packing for a trip and never being able to bring enough books."

19. "Having a book fall on your face because you're reading on your back while holding the book up."

20. And the ultimate book lovers' dilemma: "So many books, so little time."

Poems Of The Week

This week i have selected three by William Butler Yeats.

When You Are Old


When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.


The Sorrow of Love

The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves,
The brilliant moon and all the milky sky,
And all that famous harmony of leaves,
Had blotted out man's image and his cry.

A girl arose that had red mournful lips
And seemed the greatness of the world in tears,
Doomed like Odysseus and the labouring ships
And proud as Priam murdered with his peers;

Arose, and on the instant clamorous eaves,
A climbing moon upon an empty sky,
And all that lamentation of the leaves,
Could but compose man's image and his cry.

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet’s wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.

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Lost Wallet

Well,i am anxious,as i have lost my wallet and i know where (i think) - the 334 bus coming back from Maidstone to here. It had my debit card,loyalty cards,and thirty pounds. It was the 6.20 from Maidstone and i alighted from the bus at 7 pm here in the town.

The wallet must have fell out of my trouser pocket as i got up from the seat to exit the bus.I hope some kind soul or the bus driver found it. Means getting over to Sheerness bus depot tomorrow somehow. I will phone them first thing in the morning as trying after seven at night just means you have a continuous ringtone, I have already contacted my bank about it - it is just the inconvenience and that a less respectable person might have taken that thirty quid - which i was going to my rent at the Quays - otherwise i do not carry that much money.