More rainy day activities

It has rained again all day, steadily and heavily. I quite like walking in the rain especially when like today there is no wind and the Pollok Park route to the library only takes about ten minutes. I was delighted to find a just purchased copy of Sarah Moss’ latest novel ‘ Summerwater’, written in the context of impending Brexit. I gather her move to Dublin is not unrelated to that. Its been a while since I have read a book without a break. The monologues centred on the inhabitants of a rainy holiday park in the Trossachs are delicious, they converge in a devastating finale; how they come together in awful emergency is a prescient COVID metaphor.
Before the library trip I zoomed in to the UHI’s public lecture on the crisis in ethnolinguistic diversity from the Gaelic perspective. A bit of a niche interest but it got to the heart of some of tensions between indigenous speakers and new speakers.
And a nice coincidence at the library, also on display was Roy Pederson’s story of his friend and colleague John Angus Mackay, the Gaelic Gorilla, who has done probably more than anyone else to promote the cultural, linguistic and economic renaissance of Gaelic.
A very satisfying day which resulted in an extremely late tea/supper/dinner whatever.