Books, books, and more books!

Today I've been catching up on the weekend. This has involved many hours snoozing on the sofa and browsing through my weekend purchases. I've also backblipped my little holiday:

Friday: Alnmouth and the moon
Saturday: Dunstanburgh, Howick Hall and a dunk in the Aln
Sunday: Barter Books

Today's shot is my purchases from Barter Books. (Not the best shot but feeling too tired and ill to retake it) Some factual, some fiction, some poetry, some silliness, some seriousness. The trouble with so many new books (other than finding space on the ever expanding bookcase) is that I want to read them all. As such I've read the first few chapters of a number of them before I settled down to read the book on herbs.

I've been put on a crazy diet for the next two days ready for an overnight fast (including water) and a hydrogen breath test on Wednesday morning to check for my lactose intolerance. So along with the foods I can't eat because of my intolerances I now have to cut out pretty much everything else I eat: wholemeal foods, bran, beans, peas and lentils. Not enjoying it. Realised soya is a bean so I'm not even allowed my soya milk or the yoghurt I'd bought to replace my cereal. Thankfully I've only one more day to go!