Some kind of update

So, with Beatriz away I've been doing a lot more of an activity that I haven't done that much since I was single.

I'm talking of course about reading.

Currently I'm hugely enjoying Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell - not the guy from Peep Show, another David Mitchell. Part 19th Century seafaring yarn, part 70s detective story, part post-apocalyptic sci-fi, and doing all those parts rather well, it's much more fun than boring old sex.

Meanwhile in Salta, Beatriz has the wedding arrangements pretty much sorted out now. So with not much left to do, she's been stuck indoors while the torrential summer rain pounds down, and hundreds of frogs hop between puddles in the unmettled road outside her house.