A post about things I’ve been up to.

I’ve been so busy recently and haven’t read as much as usual. Some of this is as I found out the other day when I went for my first eye test in a while (about ten years). It shocked me how bad my eyes were, so I went from no glasses to varifocals in one step anyway. They are due later this week, and maybe that explains why I have been reading less and less the last few months. So I decided to just not read anything till the new glasses come. I read a lot of work in the course of the job, reading from records, emails, etc. So I thought I do a quick thing been up to recently. First, we had Valentines. I was working, but we had a lovely meal on the following day of cheddar tart followed by triple-cooked chips, various green veg, prosciutto-wrapped chicken and then melted-in-the-middle puddings.

We also visited the record fair the other weekend I like a chap that has new vinyl at ten pound each. SOo i got a few.

So I got Wilco’s cover album. This was an uncut CD from many years ago that came out last year on vinyl. I had the CD as I have been subscribing to Uncut for the last 25 years. Then I got The Road with most of Nick Cave’s Albums on both CD and vinyl, apart from his soundtracks, which is next on my list to get off from him; he has done some great films. I watched the film A few years ago of The Road, but I’d love to read the book and watch the film at some point. I have been watching a few more films this year. I am trying to track them on Letterboxd. I have not been watching as much world cinema. I think this may be connected to the glasses I need, meaning I have been straining to read subtitles and part of it. I think my level of concentration is a little lower than it was a few years ago. I’m not sure how Letterbox fully works, but like Storygraph, which I am now also on, it is a move away from Amazon tracking my data; I still have GoodReads and IMDb, which I have tracked films I watched years ago. I am in the middle of diving into older films on youtube or series.Bulman is one I am watching a detective series I remember from the 80s. I also been in a rabbit hole of airplane hijack films from the years. I find there is so much on youtube from the 70s and 80s that just isn’t out there or just isn’t shown these days.

I also had a couple of my book subscriptions arrive. I had a pierene and tilted axis for a couple years and have now added Charco and Fum d stampa. I should signed up earlier but struggled to be able to afford it years ago.Anyway, that is about it. I will be back soon when I have my new glasses as it is creeping up to Booker International time. I will make a list of books I think will be on it and will be on the shadow jury again.