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I'm very nervous at the moment. The book club is reading a book I suggested. We read it over New Year while we were camping. We don't allow bed-time to happen until after 9.30, so while we wait for the clock to tick round to teeth-cleaning time we huddle round the fire (well actually we don't, we sit well back because the one thing in plentiful supply in a wood is firewood) and Nick reads to us. He proposed to read Alan Bennett's 'The Uncommon Reader'. I wasn't that impressed with the idea, I thought it was a bit literary. And it was very funny, not laugh-out-loud funny, but the following day we would remember bits, or one of us would be accused of behaving like 'Sir Kevin the New Zealander', or we would practice pretending to wave from a carriage while reading. So I mentioned it at book club and now it is official and I bought a copy from nice Dr Amazon and read it. And reading it to yourself is too quick, it needs to be read a chapter at a time, and it is definitely a book to talk about while you read it, in fact it is probably the perfect book to have on cassette. It is the first time I can remember where I noticed less the second time I read something than the first. So I am very nervous about next book club, because it is so much better read out loud!

Meanwhile, it is also Coll Magazine time so I am very busy bothering lots of people who are beginning to avoid me (perhaps no-one will go to book club) trying to get them to write articles. Putting it together is going to take even longer this year, because my new trusty Photoshop book tells me not to convert a colour picture to a black and white using the 'grayscale' button, but to go through a RGB box, and choose a red and black, or a green and black (but apparently never a blue and black, because the cones in your eyes don't see as many blues as they do reds and greens) picture and then make it black and white. And while I can see they look different, and different to the easy grayscale, I now have to decide which is better! Which takes longer! Doing is much quicker than deciding to do.
The Coll mag has its own website :- with back issues available to read online, you can even read something I wrote, although I couldn't find it with the search button.
Message for mjc. Herons do bark, honest! Muntjac deer bark too (and they are smaller than greyhounds) but a certain breed of dog doesn't, I think it is a basenji. I hope Carol can get us a pic of the cat riding the dog.