Have the Sunny Days

Finally arrived? I dearly hope so. All this dank and gloom (not to mention soggy bicycle seats) was becoming unbearable. Those years of such eternally wet blanketed existence by the Nord Zee--how did I ever put up with it?

If we are very lucky and/or have been very good, perhaps the first dip in the pool of the year is not far off... It's too bad I've preemptively finished my leisurely reading of the quarter--"Gaudy Night" was shot through with jolting prose. A detective novel (with no deaths), it is unrivaled in making Mooford sound so beautifully oppressive.