Paris in the Springtime
Mar. 30th, 2008 05:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nineveh_ukAgainst the promise of the weather forecast, it is a lovely sunny day today, and I did various unexciting household tasks, walked round the University Parks (planting displays, what planting displays?) and finally worked out what Peter Wimsey is doing in the Wizarding World in the first place.
I’ve been dabbling in Margery Allingham’s Albert Campion novels, but I don’t think I’m going to be taking the plunge. Campion himself is considerably less absorbing than Andrex, and though Allingham can certainly write, the two I’ve tried so far “Sweet Danger and A Fashion in Shrouds are not really solvable mysteries, but mild thrillers. The Inevitable Manservant is a mere collection of ticks. Of the conclusions to the book’s two romances, one made me want to fling it across the room with its “essentially feminine” and the other was so tepid it had skin on it. I am relieved that WWII being around the corner* the love-interest Lady Aeronautical Engineer Amanda Fitton is at least unlikely to end up giving her career when she marries, as is at one point implied to be inevitable. I shall probably look out for the next couple of books with Amanda in, but at the library.
Now the important bit. I am going to Paris at the end of this week for a long weekend with Middle Sister, to buy her a dress for the many weddings she will be attending this summer, given that she last bought a new posh frock nearly three years ago, and has since been seen in it at many and various nuptial festivities throughout this green and pleasant land (and London) and for me finally to see Paris. (MS has been to Paris several times, usually to watch internationally sports matches.)
So, what and where should I see, eat, drink, and buy in Paris?
*Something one would never divine from the novel, despite a major plot strand involving the manufacture of aeroplanes.
I’ve been dabbling in Margery Allingham’s Albert Campion novels, but I don’t think I’m going to be taking the plunge. Campion himself is considerably less absorbing than Andrex, and though Allingham can certainly write, the two I’ve tried so far “Sweet Danger and A Fashion in Shrouds are not really solvable mysteries, but mild thrillers. The Inevitable Manservant is a mere collection of ticks. Of the conclusions to the book’s two romances, one made me want to fling it across the room with its “essentially feminine” and the other was so tepid it had skin on it. I am relieved that WWII being around the corner* the love-interest Lady Aeronautical Engineer Amanda Fitton is at least unlikely to end up giving her career when she marries, as is at one point implied to be inevitable. I shall probably look out for the next couple of books with Amanda in, but at the library.
Now the important bit. I am going to Paris at the end of this week for a long weekend with Middle Sister, to buy her a dress for the many weddings she will be attending this summer, given that she last bought a new posh frock nearly three years ago, and has since been seen in it at many and various nuptial festivities throughout this green and pleasant land (and London) and for me finally to see Paris. (MS has been to Paris several times, usually to watch internationally sports matches.)
So, what and where should I see, eat, drink, and buy in Paris?
*Something one would never divine from the novel, despite a major plot strand involving the manufacture of aeroplanes.