'Uskoks of
Senj' was hard-going. I didn't give it
the attention it deserved, but the shifting alliances between the Habsburgs,
Venice and the Ottomans and the crazy and lawless frontier they created should
have made for a really interesting book, but it just didn’t grab me.
I'm running the
Windsor Half Marathon on Sunday, which will be the first big test for my knee.
Hopefully I'll be faster than last year and can break 2h10.
'The Terracotta Dog'
was much easier to read, an Inspector Montalbano novel which is flavour of the
month at the moment as BBC4 are showing it. Our usual Scandi-appreciation
society of the Hansom-Lugaros and the Falcone-Jenningses has migrated south for
the autumn to wonderful Sicily. It looks so achingly beautiful, we've started
having vague conversations about a big holiday there and hiring a villa. . .
I managed the
Windsor half in under 2 hours, which made me so happy given that I was 2h20
last year and aiming for 2h10. First half-marathon under 2 hours though!
Fantastic! Carter's Steam Fair was on Englefield Green so I went there
afterwards to meet all the Sawyers. I was already dehydrated and exhausted from
the run, and then scoffed Vimto, popcorn and nougat and then went straight on
to the Octopus with Ella. I felt so sick afterwards, what an idiot
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