Closing ceremony

The best bit was the Spice Girls, as far as I'm concerned. Annie Lennox was good too but not as much fun. I've never liked the Spice Girls before but there's a first time for everything.

The worst bit was the gender balance. The opening ceremony seemed to be full of women doing stuff. The closing ceremony... wasn't. Lots of women being passive decoration, which wasn't the same at all.

Oh well.

Books!

I bought Maeve Binchy's "My First Book" and read it. It was BRILLIANT. I must get her other collections of journalism.

And today I ordered PL Travers' Mary Poppins books "for Linnea," and I've explained that we'll have to share them like we did the Ramona ones because I want to read them too. First. Yeah.

Actually, she's a faster reader than I am these days, what with having more free time to devote to it. So she can go first, I guess.

Mary Poppins has interested her in the Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady. Not sure why.