Why do we in the Northern Hemisphere who have daylight saving, always say with surprise, soon into November ‘Doesn’t it get dark early?’ Luckily we have squirrels to light our way home.
We learnt a new word today at our ‘Wellness Pilates’ class. A new class is starting at the sports centre – Equilates. Browsing the internet I see it is not new. What is it? Clue below and answer at the end of this post.
Too many books? You can never have too many books or can you? A decorating project Chez Tidalscribe led to moving a lot of books and wondering why so many are unread. Some are inherited from my book loving aunt and uncle, others date back to our Book Club days when we would leave a book club, then re-join it later to get yet another introductory offer of six books for a pound each, then there are the treasured Christmas presents. Many are beautiful illustrated hardback non fiction, excellent reference books in pre internet days. Alas, when we are writing a blog or checking facts for our novels, we don’t say to ourselves ‘I’ll just pop downstairs and look that up in the very heavy giant Encyclopaedia of British History or the equally heavy Family Medical Encyclopaedia ( probably out of date )’; we just Google it. As I dust each book to decide where to put it on the new shelves I am overwhelmed with guilt at my neglect and promise to read it on the afore mentioned long winter evenings.
Answer to equilates.. apparently around for a while, it is Pilates for horse riders, not the horse, though that may well come. We didn’t know horse massage and saddle fitting was ‘a thing’ till a family member trained for them and soon acquired plenty of clients.
Do you have too many books?
Have you attended any interesting classes lately?
Times and Tides of a Beachwriter 
Yes, I have way too many books. And I’ve been doing periodic purges.
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So have I Liz, every time we have a major tidy or rearrangement I take some to the charity shop.
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Not an ad but thank you Kindle. I have lost so many books due to moving, floods and the never returned by friends. Which is totally ok. Except for that flood.
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Perhaps a Kindle would not survive a flood? I am still using my ten year old Kindle, but I believe if you buy a new one your books magically appear on it, yes thanks Kindle indeed!
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I have 825 books on my Kindle tablet. I’ve read 284 of them so far. Too many? Noooo.
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Imagine how many shelves you would have needed Linda for that many books!
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Right! My husband only reads ‘real’ books. He typically reads 4 or more novels per week. They are everywhere. Living room, bedroom, kitchen, garage, spare bedrooms. We basically live in a library.
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Sounds a book lovers paradise at your place. Blokes seem less likely to read novels so I am impressed with four a week.
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I’ve always preferred physical copies of books, but I’ve solved the space issue by getting a Kindle. Still, there’s something missing from the feel and small of a book.
Equilates pilates is a new term for me. Learn something new each day.
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Yes Pete I love real books, I think people always will and children still love real books.
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We did a major book purge a few years ago, but the shelves are still full. Printed books are easier to read (flipping back is easy and they don’t need to be charged up), but ebooks have their advantages.
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Yes Audrey I have never succeeded in looing back in a book on my Kindle! I am glad I joined a book club because it is a good incentive to read real books.
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My friend Jo might be running your Equilates class! I used to ride with her around Throop. I don’t know if Equilates was already a ‘thing’ or whether she invented it, because she’s a Pilates instructor who rides.
The hardest thing about my travelling lifestyle was getting rid of all my precious, beloved books. I have a Kindle – and Google – but that’s never the same as leafing through a magnificent tome and absorbing random information.
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Yes might well be your friend.
Kindle must have changed life for travellers, but of course cannot replace real books.
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I never attend any classes, but I do have far too many books. Most of my books are stored in boxes in the garage, sadly neglected since 2012. The rest are stacked on two large bookcases, and inside cupboards. Some are actually stored in piles on the floor of the office room, and around 10% of all of them have never been read.
(Not to mention some 30+ books on my Kindle that I have never read so much as one page of)
But I still buy, or receive as gifts, around six new books every year. It’s like a form of addiction.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Ha ha Pete, yes a prime example of how books multiply and we take them with us when we move. Only ten per cent never read is pretty good. I think writing and blogging takes time away we would have spent reading books.
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I have had several severe purges of books – novels I will never read, non-fiction that is no longer relevant have gone. I have a small selection of ones I treasure and use the library for everything else. It makes fr a lot less dusting!
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Yes dust love books. I once saw them ‘dusting’ in a National Trust house library, it involved mini vacuum cleaners and white gloves and all sorts!
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Gorgeous skwrl 😀
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I knew you were an author, Janet but never knew your genre. Might be a mish-mash like mine, but At the Seaside attracted my interest. Perhaps I should drop a few hints to the big guy in the red suit with a white beard if I can manage to be a good girl for a few more weeks. 😀
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Yes definitely you need to write to Father Christmas. I don’t have a genre and At The Seaside will take you all around the country and to some strange places…!
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We have so many books in this house but I do love my Kindle. My first one was still going strong after 10 years when I treated myself to another one for a big birthday. This Kindle has a back-light so I can read in the dark in the caravan when I’m the only one awake – bliss!
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Hello Jane, My Kindle passed its ten year mark with this year’s Big birthday. I thought it had died once, but my son took it back to factory settings and it leapt back into life!
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