A closer

view than yesterday, and a sunnier one. 
A day of gentle work coding AS level computer science questions for a database, reading Eric Ambler (he published A Kind of Anger in 1964: a key plot element being a Kurdish uprising in Mosul) and enjoying Mrs E's home made pesto. Taking cuttings from Gertude Jekyll may produce some roots: we shall see. Reading Pliny on gardening in the Roman villa at Fishbourne yesterday makes the idea of cultivation seem very civilised.