I’ve enjoyed March.
I managed to enjoy a few days’ skiing, despite less snow than any of us would like, in the Austrian alps.
Back at home, the sun has been getting stronger, and the evenings have been getting lighter – and now with Summer Time we will enjoy lovely late evenings for six months.
And I’ve been reflecting recently on a key influence in my life – the author James Clavell.
I remember as a child in the early 1980s being astonished that my mother could take on a 1300+ page book. Shogun, Clavell’s third key novel, had just been televised into a TV miniseries – the first western production ever filmed in Japan, apparently – starring Richard Chamberlain. I enjoyed the miniseries enough that soon enough I was reading the book myself – and I was gutted when, after those 1300+ pages, it finished.
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