return of the wanderer

here we are again. I've been away at my bro's since I last wrote on the 10th. No more missing my blog as i only have a jaunt to Hawarth with random on Sept.19th and a visit to my cousin on the 3rd dec. until these dates I shall try and blog every day.i hope I haven't lost those who read me by not being here.
N.Norfolk was wonderful. i beat all my previous bird totals and saw 120 species. My highspot was a little owl just sitting on a branch looking at me. I have a passion for owls. I have over a 100 of all kinds including a broach and earrings.Also surpassed my second hand book total. My bro has stopped smoking and gave me £20 to spend on books. I found 35. Most of them are still in Norfolk but They'll be here by 19th since my sis in law's sister is going up with a car and will bring them back. I broought a few back with me.
1) Reader, I married him-Patricia Beer
2)The Medieval Papacy-Geoffrey Barraclough
3)Emily Bronte -Winifred Guerin
4) House of a thousand Lanterns-Victoria Holt
5)teach Yourself New Testament greek
6)Homer's the Illiad and the Odyssey-Alberto Manguel:This is a beautiful ,like new hardback, which no library had in stock so i was really pleased and with 1-3 which I('ve wanted for ages.
7)The Cat who went Underground-Lillian Braun Jackson
8)The Sand Reckoner-Gillian Bradshaw. This is brand new and cost £2.00
So you see how well I did.My greatest find were for my daughter's Xmas pressie (part thereof)
ADorita Fairlie Bruce stand alone and a Dimsie book. Charlie read these as a teenager from the London Library and has always wanted them herself. They are very scarce and most often too expensive so to find one for £15.00 was super even though It's the last in the series so we're starting back to front.
In Norwich, which is the first time I've used my bus pass out county,we found an Oxfam the bigger part of which was books. They were reasonably priced so quite a few came from there. Some Oxfams are becoming greedy and charging too much. Then they wonder why their books are not selliing.we also visited the Cathedral,which is fairly interesting but still leaves Winchester as my personal favourite.We stuck with 'old' Norwich and explored the little lanes, which was where we found areally nice used bookshop with an owner who wanted to talk books.
went to several art exhibitions too. Most were amateur but excellent quality and two were professional. One in Holt and one in Salthouse Church. the artist there was Elizabeth Humphries,who does these really big unusual works in vivd colours.Many of her works would be unsuitable for ordinary houses.
Also managed some reading but I'll blog daily about them rather than make this too long.I read 'Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth'- Frances Wilson.this is really interestingly written. As DW didn't live a rackety life a book about her could be very tedious but this isn't. There was quite a lot new to me too.I hadn't realised that William gave her Mary's wedding ring to wear the night before the marriage. D was too overcome to go to the nuptials and waited at the cottage until the bridal party returned.wilson reads the Lucy Poems' as potentially celebrating an incestuous relationship between W and D. Their relationship was certainly intense.'D often describes herself as a half. She is afterall Someone who quarrels with herself. But this( just as W is going to marry) is the only occasion in her journal where she can be heard referring to herself as possessing any poetic talent at all'
This inspite of it being obvious that she played a large part in the 'Lyrical Ballads'.This small quotation shows the clarity of Wilson's writing style.
I collect books on the Romantics so would like to own this one when it comes out in paperback. Another aspect of Mary which is discussed is her relationship with the coleridges. She really didn't like Sarah C. and actively encouraged C in his approaches to Sara Hutchinson.I was so surprised to read this since I'd have thought she'd be more conventional than this.