Welcome to Litsy!

Really wanted a lie in this morning and a hour with my book - but I just couldn‘t concentrate with Woodford‘s eyes boring into me! Needless to say I did one chapter then we did a 10k forest hike! He won! 🤣

There are advantages to a rainy Saturday afternoon!

...the streets were already full of Guysers, collecting money for Guy Fawkes Night. London's orphans had left their clandestine thieving and had taken to the age old practice of extortion. Why the magistrates turned a blind eye was a mystery, but one so lost in the mists of time that no one even asked.

The park has its dark parts, but near to Whitehall and the river, it was all light. A sting quartet played by the canal, surrounded by a dignified audience of what London society remained in town....as we walked through the female crowd it was an aviary of fluttering fans.

'Are these loose women?' Theodore asked with unexpected zest, and an offended old dowager bustled out from under our feet like a partridge.

'Apparently not.'

Did I buy some more books: absolutely yes.