Moving to London and stumbling into a job before I know
what’s happening. Not to say that any of this was easy – or that I am
completely happy with where I have found myself. I expect that I am bad at
adjusting to change. Everywhere I go, I bring a fleet of furnishings, chests of
drawers, tranklements, perfumes, coats, and books (with bookcases to house
them) – I’m not really in a place
until all of this is set up. This time, everything happened so quickly that many
things were left behind (all very much my fault): a cream-coloured wooden box
containing all my earrings, my winter coats (I’ll have to go home very soon to
retrieve these, even if I do it one coat at a time), swimming costume, jars of spices
and homemade jam.

Really, though, all I want is a holiday. I haven’t
had time to legitimately do and think about nothing for at least a year. However,
here I am, and there’s no time to stop. Instead, a surprising turn of events
has me reading maths books in my spare time. Puzzling over fractions, decimals,
and lines of symmetry, getting frustrated over long division, and outlining the
properties of a rhombus: these are not what my mind was designed for, but I
hope I will learn to like (and understand) it before long… All of this means
that I haven’t been able to read much else, and have spent too many days without
even opening a ‘fun’ book. Fortunately, there is a lovely local library – it’s
very airy, with high ceilings and a lot of space in which to work. I’m looking
forward to spending more time in there (when we can work out its bizarre
opening hours). Our house also has a tiny spare room which we’ve turned into
our own miniature library. It’s full of books already and will hopefully
encourage (or shame) me into reading again. Maths books are not enough!
xxx
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