"That demmed elusive Pimpernel."

Again scratching around for a subject to photograph - seeking here and seeking there - I came across this book* that I got as a prize at school for being 'First in Art'. Typical of the education system back then, giving me something to read that had nothing to do with the subject I won the prize for. Not that I'm complaining too much as I remember reading and enjoying it at the time.

What this blip is really about is the way that members of your family appropriate things that belong to you - your prized possession for example - and it somehow becomes their own. It has taken this book almost forty years to find it's way back to my bookshelf from the clutches of my brother. Admittedly I had forgotten about it for most, if not all, of those years - but it's a matter of principle don't ye know!

And before someone mentions it, I didn't win it in 1913.

* Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Hodder and Stoughton. First published March 1913.