Today's posts

Try to read a poem by Robert Burns this week.  If you’re not sure which one to start with, read ‘To a mouse’.  The rhymes are effortless.  Not one is forced. On the Wikipedia webpage there is an English version alongside Burns’ original text and this will help a lot. Burns’ meaning is clear enough and there is no point in not making the effort to understand it!  Today’s poem is also about someone interfering with nature in one small thoughtless incident. It is not to a mouse but to a spider.     

Dinner for all in Bristol.  What better than a meal to bring matters to an end?  But, of course, getting together like this is just a beginning too.

This winds up the story of Magdalena and so next week we will start on something different.