That really is a long time difference, Karen!
You might want to read Vikram Seth’s An Equal Balance while you’re waiting. I LOVED that book, about the travails of a second violinist and the quartet he belongs to, and the pianist he loved — AND there’s a CD available with all of the chamber music so intrinsic to the book, which I also love. (You can check it out on amazon. On the other hand, maybe you already know the book –)
To Karen: This is the comment I wanted to add to your beautiful post on Buckinghamshire:
What glorious photos! Suitable to a book called There’ll Always be an England.
And an informative text too. I was especially interested in the evolution of vicars’ names.
Beautiful!
But there was no way Google or Blogger was letting me comment, I tried every which way from here to Sunday. And I don’t have your email address — so I hope you’ll see this!