Elections...

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it. - George Bernard Shaw, 1856 - 1950

Tarot...

Would anyone here like a Tarot reading?

I want to practise, and I've been practising on myself - which is okay, but it would be good for me to read for someone else. Any takers?

Just send me a question and any details you might want to add.

Thursday...

• Read comics. Discovered a whole series of Avengers comics that I'd missed, from the 1990s, written and drawn (mostly) by Rob Liefeld. What a hoot - seeing Nick Fury in Liefeld-type battle gear that is absolutely fabulous. After the Liefeld art, we had art by Michael Ryan, and then, to my delight, one of my favourites from that era - Ian Churchill, who did some lovely work on X-Factor at about that time.
  
  
• Went to the First Avenue Public School Book Sale. It was mobbed. Pim sent me a photo of the line to get in - winding around the block. By the time I got there, it was crowded, but I was able to walk right in. Pim was there, and josannpq. Browsed, but failed to find the things I was actually looking for, so I bought:
  
  
  1. Lionheart by Herbert Strang and Richard Stead. I got it because I liked the cover and the coloured plate illustrations inside, though the book is in rather bad shape.
     
     
     
     
  2. Two travel books: The Best Travel Writing 2006: True Stories From Around the World, and A Fortune-Teller Told Me by Tiziano Terzani.
     
     
  3. Three medieval history books: The Renaissance of teh 12th Century by Charles Homer Haskins, the classic Feudal Society by Marc Bloch (with a nice cover picture from the Bayeux Tapestry), and The Medieval World by Friedrich Heer. I read the first two, very long ago.
  
  It makes me happy to see a book sale so well attended, so enthusiastically attended. Just a tiny neighbourhood book sale to raise money for a school, and hundreds of people there on the first day.
  
  
• Went to a Tarot Club meeting, where we talked about relationships - how we read relationships in the cards, and what cards (or combinations) might mean certain things. It was fun.
  
  
• With supper I drank something called the Miami Sunset. It was embarrassingly read. It tasted fine, but wasn't excuting - not something I particularly want to order again. I need to look up more drink recipes so I'll know what to order.
  
  
• It was a beautiful evening, and I walked home along the canal, enjoying the mildness.