After a few pleasant weeks at home with the family - working, but working locally - I'm on the road again. Tomorrow at 4am I leave for the airport. I'll be away three out of the next four weeks; in Germany and Sweden, with a week in between in... Bracknell. I shouldn't be too rude about Bracknell; the locals are friendly enough, and I believe Shelley lived there once. But I'd still rather not spend so much time there. While away I'll finish the Marina Warner book, and start something new; probably 'The Thorn Rosary'. Business trips - on which I usually have plenty of spare time - are the only time I have leisure in the evenings to read; a sad statement, but a true one.