The Potting Shed

Leonie2 · Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 2:00 pm Post subject: What are you reading?

I haven't had time for reading in a long while. But yesterday I took S and J to indoor soft play (it poured with rain most of the day) and took a book along with me. It's one in the series that Gill recommended to me it's called A Drake at the Door by Derek Tangye. It follows on from A Gull on the Roof which I read last year and thoroughly enjoyed. A Gull on the Roof is about a couple who give up the rat race and everything they have to move to Cornwall to grow flowers and potatoes, I think it's in the 60s. A Drake at the Door is a follow on from the first book and I'm enjoying what I've read so far.

So is anyone else reading anything at the moment that you'd recommend or not recommend?

Jellycat · 4 Star Club Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 1812

I've just finished the Lord of the Rings (again!) - after watching the film and listening to the CDs, it was nice to get back to the original, with all the characters that were missed out of the dramatisations. I think that was about the 15th time I've read it...

Now I'm reading The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld, which OH gave me for my birthday. It's a thriller about Freud's only visit to America and so far it's looking good.

Cabbagepatch · Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 4:17 pm Post subject:

I've just finished An Extraordinary Woman by Margaret Forster. Really fascinating diary of a woman started in 1918 and lasted until the 1980's.

Now looking for some inspiration because there isnothing quite like a good book and a mug of hot milk at bedtime!

Kathy · Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 6:16 pm Post subject:

2 books at the moment, an easy to read crime mystery and "Healing with whole foods" Paul Pitchford. It takes more concentration and is such an illuminating book. None of "you can't have this or that", it just tells you what food ACTUALLY does in your body so informed choices can be made. A fair bit of history about food throughout the ages, all well researched and referenced. I would recommend this to anyone who really cares about the food/mind/body relationship. Very Happy

mrutty · 2 Star Club Joined: 19 Jun 2006 Posts: 827

Just finished the first two Paul Heiney books on farming with horses.

nanny · Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 9:30 pm Post subject:

mrutty · 2 Star Club Joined: 19 Jun 2006 Posts: 827

You have ruined it now, I didn't know he'd quit. DAMN!!!!!

alison · Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 9:06 am Post subject:

I read about this in the paper a couple of years ago. He had an agreement with Libby Purvis that he would conduct this experiment / way of farming for 10 years, then if she wanted he would go back to life in suberbia.