December already?

     

     What Have I been up to for the past month? I've been reading  Edward Abbey: a life by James M. Cahalan. I finally read Abbey's Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness and The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West. Just a taste of Abbey's prodigious output. 

    I have been occupied the past couple of days cataloging my little collection of books on LibraryThing. The site is huge and uses many resources on the Internet. I have found some long forgotten books. Here are a couple:

     Brian Pattern is a Liverpool poet . . .

     My subscription to The Countryman lapsed many years ago but I still have many of the older pocket sized magazines issued when he magazine's home was still on Sheep Street in Burford, Oxfordshire. It's now back in the country in Yorkshire.