I will be retiring in 101 days. In terms of working days that is just 56. It’s not long. It only seems like yesterday that I was making the bad decisions at school which led to the debacle that was my working life. Fortunately I have enjoyed a lot of it and and by doing things I loved I have rarely felt like it was work.
Business was slow today. There is a definite feeling that coin collecting is less popular since shops used lockdown as an excuse for cutting down on taking cash. A number of people have brought their collections of 50p and £2 coins to sell in the shop and if they have been taken from circulation we are turning them down. There is still a small market for coins in Uncirculated condition but we are telling people to spend the others. We sometimes end up with accumulations of circulated 50p and £2 coins as part of a bigger lot and we give them out in change.
I had my letter from the Anti-coagulant Service yesterday, the glitch in my levels has worked its way through my system and I am back to normal. However, I’m still on weekly testing, which is a nuisance.
I now have 44 words to write before hitting my self-imposed target.
I have just loaded up my Kindle with the first three volumes of Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time and, just over 150 pages in, am finding it very enjoyable. I did read a few of the books about 40 years ago but this time intend doing all twelve. I don’t really know why I haven’t got round to it before now. However, better late than never. I need to remember that at my age if I don’t do it now I may never get round to it.
So many books, so little time . . .
I have learned more about coins and coin shops here that I ever expected to. I have in general, learned much from your blog.
I am reading a book right now, Siddhartha Mukherjee “Song of the Cell”
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60321392
Looks good, as do some of the others on the page. As I say – so many books, so little time. 🙂
Now the initial interest has worn off, I must admit that I have hit a dull patch.,However, I have faith that it will come back stronger. The feeling is definitely growing – he is interesting, but he is no Waugh.
I have read one or two but couldn’t get excited enough to read more.
I feel I ought to read A Dance to the Music of Time and I might do as you have done. I’ll get the books on kindle where they will wait with the others until I am away from home and I need something to read. I love Waugh’s writing and I’ll think about your comparison when I get around to reading Powell. Unless I’ve become even more forgetful than I am now!
I’m enjoying it so far. 🙂 Whether I have the stamina to make it to the end is a different matter. I will have to pace myself. I am just starting a new book and it is slow going at the moment. I expect there are many chages of pace to come.
I am currently working my way through Anthony Trollope’s books. I’ve finished the Barchester ones and am on the second of the Palliser series. I have to read other books inbetween some of them as one can have too much of a good thing sometimes!
I read quite a few of them, but found it easier to watch many of them on TV. (Yes, it was that long ago!). I know what you mean about having to break a series up.
I enjoyed Powell’s series a long time ago, so don’t remember much of it 🙂
I read a couple but didn’t continue. Enjoying it now, but keep thinking Waugh is better.
Coming down the homestretch! I haven’t read A Dance to the Music of Time, but I’ve heard of it. Someday, perhaps. So many books…
Yes, so many books . . . 🙂