I’m going to do a separate post on the whopping great British Jazz tome that arrived today (above).
But it’s arrival prompted me to head to Ely, to unbox it and peruse it at Topping, a suitable temple to literature.
I also treated – or ‘tret’ as some Fenny folk say – myself to lunch and a cuppa. There were a few stalls in the Marketplace, including a guy (with very weird hair!) selling books.
A concatenation of circumstances meant that my iPhone was at home. So I’d brought along a secondary or backup iPhone. But that wasn’t charging! So I couldn’t do the unboxing video right away.
I needed something to read, whilst my iPhone was looked at in a Phone tech repair shop. And I hadn’t brought Trafalgar, my current book, with me. So I bought James Holland’s Big Week from the dude with the weird barnet.
It was a good choice. For starters it ties in nicely with Apple TVs Masters Of The Air, which I’m currently following. And for another, it’s just a rip-snorting good read on a subject I’m fascinated by.
Turns out my iPhone battery is on the way out; it loses charge very quickly. But another and bigger problem was a dirt caked charging port. The guy in the phone tech shop cleaned it out and charged it for me, gratis. Which was nice!
But before sitting down at Topping to unbox British Jazz, I popped into Ely Oxfam, which almost always has an interesting selection of art books. On this occasion I came away with two rather lovely books of Japanese stuff.
I have a mind to cut out and frame as many of the images in these as I can. Keep some for our home, and maybe sell the remainder. That way I may up end up providing us with free home decorations, and poss’ even turning a small Mohammad (prophet!)?
