An Itinerant Mind

The Eyes Have It

I've decided to save to buy the parts to build a new computer. Sadly today, my savings took a bullet as I had my biannual trip to the opticians - and surprise - I need new glasses. Ho hum, I do read a great deal, so it has to be. It might put me back a month - so I'm hoping for early June now.

I'm enjoying reading 'The Golden Sovereign' which is the second of three autobiographies by the poet and writer 'Richard Church.' We had to read the first 'Over The Bridge' for English when I was at High School. I enjoyed it then, and have re read it a couple of times since, but this is my first read through of The Golden Sovereign. He has started work as a clerk at a Customs house in Billingsgate, famous for it's fish market. But then he tells us that as he used a lot of his time there as fuel for his first novel, 'The Porch', he won't repeat the stories in his autobiography. "Well played Sir", said I - now I want to read 'The Porch'.