Reading and sewing and staying out of the rain ...

It looks as though the Great British Summer is over with lots of sudden showers lately. Good weather for staying indoors and watching lots of lovely Olympic coverage. Plus catching up on my reading. I've just read the original Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde short story by Robert Louis Stevenson. It's fascinating to read the orginals of stories like this, Dracula and Frankenstein, and then see what film makers made of them, so often wildly different to the original narratives. I'm also reading Winifred Watson's 'Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day', a novel from 1938. It's a beatifully produced volume published by Persephone Books, and features charming black and white drawings of scenes from the book. Haven't got too far with it yet, but it's already wonderfully sweet and funny. On the sewing front I've been making doughnuts, felty ones of course. Two more things to show you: This funny little tea cup with a saucer and lid, found in a charity shop. Plus a quilt I made a while ago. It'd been stuffed under a pile of cushions and half finished projects. I didn't like it much when I made it, but it's growing on me.