Let's have some fun to brighten things up.

I’m attending a ball at Pemberley later.
Tomorrow I’m off to America, I need to visit Hawkeye and Chingachgook to check how the war between the British and the French is progressing. I can’t decide whether to travel by book or by film though.

I'm in Scotland with Jamie Fraser its 1778 and I've sent Claire back through the stones to the 1960s, its a hard life but definitely has its compensations.

Does it have to be just books? Can we have music and anything else amusing?

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Just finished making my horrible husband his favourite shepherd's pie (and that's another thread) with a sprinkling of my secret herb recipe that includes dried flower and leaves of foxglove.

My mother handed down the recipe.

I am behind the scenes with the Duke of Wellington when he was Prime Minister. A close female friend (without benefits), kept a diary of her conversations with him on all the politicking and back biting that went on ehind all the events we just learn of as government decisions and policies. It sounds so familiar - nothing changes.

I saw this poem on Twitter today and think it fits this thread perfectly.

I Opened a Book
Julia Donaldson

I opened a book and in I strode
Now nobody can find me.
I’ve left my chair, my house, my road,
My town and my world behind me.

I’m wearing the cloak, I’ve slipped on the ring,
I’ve swallowed the magic potion.
I’ve fought with a dragon, dined with a king
And dived in a bottomless ocean.

I opened a book and made some friends,
I shared their tears and laughter
And followed their road with its bumps and bends
To the happily ever after.

I’ve finished my book and out I came.
The cloak can no longer hide me.
My chair and my house are just the same,
But I have a book inside me.

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GabriellaG - yes, that'll be me soon...

No ginny don't worry, it doesn't matter if we don't recognise the allusions I'm sure, it's just that your precis rang a bell with me and I was curious.

I’m not surprised, it was naughty of me as it is not a book everyone would know. I probably misread the op slightly. Sorry, I’ll try again later.

ginny that's got me stumped and I feel stupid! Are we allowed to ask what book?

Having just traveled to Australia from London for my Grandmothers 80 th party I don’t know what she is thinking. My two sisters and I have not spoken for 3 years. After all one of them married my fiancé.

I've been going to school in Victorian London with David Copperfield. Had to read the book again after seeing the film recently. Great fun, but lots of scenes make me wince.

Just hitch a ride round the galaxy

Jeez I'm isolation day 30 and I haven't even isolated yet. Crikey knows what I would look like in a month ?

You?

Cardinals Wolsey is in fear for his life, I suspect he’s a goner.

Did he ever meet up with Worrals?

Biggles!
I could spend some time with him, if I can locate him
He seems to have flown off somewhere

Mr Knightly is coming round to collect me and we are going to have tea with Emma and her father. She really needs to stop giving poor Harriet Smith bad advice. She should be encouraging her to marry nice Robert Martin. Emma really is a snob, I shall ask Mr Knightly to have a word with her.

Just at the moment, having been clearing some old books of the Acs, I'm with Biggles in the Gobi. Very hot and some nasty people about, but so is Tudor London where I am more often, dogging Cromwell's slow tread.

I've lost my mind.

I wrote Coronavirus Rhapsody:

Is this a sore throat?
Is this just allergies?
Caught in a lockdown
No escape from reality.

No, I didn't write it, I copied it.

I’m right with you eazybee! Tudor England is a different world indeed.

I think I need to get out more

But I think all may end happily
There has been some passion too, in Thailand
So hot and steamy!

I’ve been on honeymoon with Lord Peter and Harriet, immersed in passion.........

I met the chap who was a gardener Grandtante and his life was saved because he was able to dig the graves in the cemetery.
He did come home to live happily ever after.