Usual housework chores and stuff this morning, and then an inspiring service and great post-church conversation.
Lunch in the garden with honey, cheese and homemade bread.
A long walk in the sunshine this afternoon, enjoying the beauty and peace of Acres Down.
Two hours strolling through the woodland and exploring the squidgier bits by the stream getting filthy. But we prepared for that, swapped them all into clean trousers and sandals for the well-deserved Cream tea in at the farmhouse garden. Such a fantastic, quirky, shabby and VERY POPULAR place that has survived now for over 20 years.
Then this evening, after I cut the grass, we've had a cup of tea in the back garden watching a couple of baby hedgehogs snuffling around.

Reading "The Children of Hurin" at the moment, and it is somewhat turgid. Slwow to start and far too heavy with names and ancestry. Three chapters in and a story is emerging, so I will read it all but its not one of Tolkein's best. His mastery of the world he has created though is incredible and this is a great example of the depth of his commitment to Middle-Earth.
I'm just not really surprised it wasn't completed or published before.
One for the fans, as they say. A bit like home demoes and unreleased songs. Fascinating and relevant, but you can understand why they are not 'out there'. Part of the thought process, so interesting from that point of view at least

People comment on my throw away HP entry, but won't tell me whether my own narrative prose bears reading. Its indulgent I know, and we all write stuff that doesn't always work.
Guilty as charged tho, I am the world's worst poster of comments, though I read blogs for hours some evenings!!

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