The other day (I know not when) a man tried to tell me that the Mitford sisters (Google them!) were a pair of twins , one of whom was in love with Hitler. That would be the evil one , no doubt. Actually it’s a good quiz question (Literary quizzes, of course) to name all the Mitford sisters. But does anyone remember, the fifth one, Ursula? She’s the one who stayed home and looked after the Mosley kids when their parents were interned. Probably on the same day, an elderly couple wouldn’t pay £2.25 for a used paperback, which is the average price I charge, and went to great lengths to explain to me that they could get very good quality books from a charity shop for 60 pence. . That helped a lot.
Did I tell you that we now have an allotment? (That’s a patch of communal land for growing your own veg, foreign readers). Because we had too much free time apparently.At the moment it’s the honeymoon period when it’s all new and the plants and seeds are newly sown and planted and there are no weeds. We’ll see how we go as the summer goes on, the novelty wears off .
