Lemony

A horribly grey and damp day. Himself has been in his man shed sorting it out and I've been mainly on the computer tidying up my website.

 Book club tonight so it will be good to get out. We shall be discussing Edith by Marina Devlin, about Edith Somerville, author of the Irish RM, whose stately pile in West Cork is still inhabited by the family. The book is meticulously researched and very well written and Edith comes across as was a well bred, accomplished and formidable women doing her best to live life on her own terms in a male dominated  and etiquette-ridden world . As well as being a writer, she was also an accomplished artist, spiritualist, horse dealer, suffragist, a member of the Ascendancy who sympathised with Republican revolutionaries, and the woman who introduced Friesian cattle to Ireland! She came from a very privileged background and was also a terrible snob with a very strong belief in her own entitlement. Lots of interesting contradictions but I won't be rushing out to buy one of her books - I suspect they might come across as very Oirish and full of cringe-making paddywackery today. That could be a bit harsh, sorry Edith Oenone.


And today's blip is a teeny lemon geranium flower thriving in the conservatory.