It’s hard to believe it, but the first week of the school holidays has disappeared already. My husband is just beginning to relax now, still there are five more weeks to enjoy and hopefully we will be able to get away for a bit of a road trip in the next week or so.

Today we managed to get to Edinburgh although we stayed away from the centre of town and just toured the bookshops of the Stockbridge area. I was actually looking for a copy of Oblomov by Goncharov, but no luck. So now that I’ve tried all of the local shops, including St Andrews, I’m going to buy it from the internet.

As you can imagine, it’s rare for me to get out of a bookshop without buying something, so in the next few days I’ll be blogging about my new/old book loot.

I thought my book pile was bad but I’m sure that I read in a book blog the other night that someone had over 600 books in their TBR pile! I can’t remember who it was (it’s my age). Surely that must be the biggest pile yet, or is anyone owning up to even more!

My reading rate has slowed down such a lot too. That’s what happens when your husband is at home all day.