Highly recommended (and another sideways-on photo)

This photo is still not the right way up, but at lest it's no longer lying on its side. Wht's going on?

After ferrying HH to the golf club, I finished clearing the other half of the flower bed, sweating buckets – sorry, glowing gently – as I was wearing boots, long trousers, long-sleeved shirt and gardening gloves. This in case I encountered another Brazilian Wandering Spider, as I did last year. It just happens to be the deadliest in the world and we wouldn’t have time to get to the hospital for the antidote, even if they had it, which they probably wouldn’t given the state of the Brazilian health service.
 
I then just had time to finish Alexander Murray’s “Egypt’s Thousand Days of Revolution” before fetching HH. It’s a highly personal, deeply felt, simultaneously objective and subjective account of his experience of Egypt, observation of its parade of presidents over the last 30 years and what this means to the country and its people. His empathy for the common people and his curiosity and desire to learn more about their lives, hopes and expectations take him to places not normally visited by foreigners and prompt him to canvass a wide variety of Egyptians for their opinions. His descriptions bring the country alive, one can almost taste the dust, feel the heat, sense the tensions of Tahrir Square, and share his sense of foreboding about the future. I enjoyed every page, as well as his excellent photographs, and put the book down with regret - but with a far greater understanding of and sympathy for Egypt and its people.