Autumn is always a good time to sign up for an evening class, last year I trotted out to Duchy College over at Stoke Climsland for a 12 week course on Bee Keeping. There's always the downside of dragging yourself away from the roaring fire on a winter's evening after a long day at work and there was a further down side to sitting and listening to honey talk for two hours.
After an hour I was drooling (not at the lecturer) and the second hour was torture.
I would shoot home and head for the toaster and the honey and down a plateful of hot buttered toast dripping with the stuff. Things were so desperate I drove home with a flat tyre one night rather than stop and sort it; this is simple on a cold winter's night along a dark single-track country lane, pretend you don't know what that noise is.
However none of this will be a problem because, despite the fact I won't have to leave the comfort of my armchair, I still think this will be a much less-fattening course as I sign up for Woolf for Dummies over on Susan Hill's blog.The most I'm likely to need is a mug of cocoa.
I started something by confessing that I have never truly warmed to Virginia Woolf, she leaves me cold yet others love her.I suspect this is all about discovering her later in life, reading far too much about her life and Bloomsbury and then having to study her at degree level.I know I haven't given her the chance I should have done.
Quite a few fellow renegades have emerged and Susan is going to lead the way.
The first guidance notes and reading are up on her blog and excellent they are too. I'm starting to feel that spark of enthusiasm for a new project which mustn't be confused in my mind with instant Woolf conversion, this is going to take some doing.I am currently busy deleting all previous files on Woolf from my mental RAM and starting anew.
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