An indoor day

A grotty day today, wet and dark and miserable! The only time I've been outside was to fill up the bird feeders during a break in the rain this morning.
 
I've spent most of the day doing Photo Club stuff and continuing with my 'Life and Times', such as they were. Even if nobody else likes it I enjoy writing it. Like so many things in life, enjoying  something is a good enough excuse for doing it! What I like about it is the constant side-tracking. I get led away down some half-forgotten garden path - literally sometimes - and all sorts of things are dragged up from the memory. Whatever would it look like to see inside our brains!
 
My computer desk is next to one of my bookcases, so in idle moments I pull a book out and have a look at it. I particularly like old books; even if it's just handling them. I was pleased to find the book which is my Blip today. I'd been looking for it a while ago without success and here it was right beside me! 
 
‘Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch’ is a book I’ve had for a long time I think it might have been my grandfather’s, though I can’t really remember. Alice Hegan Rice was an American author who was doing philanthropic work in Louisville, Kentucky, and met a southern family who though living in poverty, managed to be optimistic and cheerful. Mrs Wiggs was based on the mother. The book was published in 1902, but my copy is the 6th edition, from 1903. I love it!
 
Quote of the Day: ‘I love everything that's old - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.’ - Oliver Goldsmith.