It was set to be hot yesterday, so I settled for a short walk, carrying water just in case. Comfortable enough when I set out around 10:30, but getting a bit hot by the time I got back. Hot enough that I thought better of stopping to take the sun on a bench in Court Recreation Ground; better to get home before it got any hotter.
On the way over the hill, pleased to see that the gas contractors had done a good neat job of making good their trench through Clay Hill Green. As noticed, for example, towards the end of reference 2. Hopefully we will get some rain before the birds take all the grass seed.
On the way down the hill, some of the hawthorn presently in fine flower all over the place. Quite smelly. Fine flowers which a pigeon appeared to be eating just outside our bedroom window this very morning.
No trolleys to be found in town, but I did stock up on goods wet and dry at Waitrose - that is to say yellow Calvados and brown flour - and then paid a visit to Waterstones to see what they could do in the Sinclair Lewis department.
They did not have any of the the titles that I remembered, but they did have one: 'It Can't Happen Here', from the Penguin Modern Classics list. 375 pages of it, so much longer than the much earlier 'The Job'.
According to the blurb on the back, a book written in a hurry in 1935, in part a response to the rise of populist leaders and Fascism in Europe. But also looking forward, as it may turn out, to the present turmoil in the US?
Started, but will it be paused? Will I be diverted elsewhere before I get properly into it?
References
Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-job.html.
Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/04/trolley-812.html.
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