Normal service has been resumed!

...but option not available. Same thing has happened to my blog. Only latest posting showing. And it looks same format as yours.
As an experiment I clicked on one of your earlier postings (via link through 'comments' list) and that apppeared as 'normal'.
I'm off out so can't chase up, but will check what's happening on my return.
Cheers,
Suzee
xxxxx

I finished 'Not That Sort of A Girl' and am now three-quarters of the way through 'Second Fiddle'.

When rereading one author back-to-back one can't help noticing certain patterns, but there is such variety and humanity as well as imagination that I am more impressed rather than less.

I love the way her characters pop up in other books, without making each book less than slef-contained. Learning more about Calypso and others in books about other people is just such a lovely bonus.

Current book is dedicated to Robert Bolt. Apparently he wanted to marry her, but she didn't take him up on his offer. I did listen to Wild Mary extracts on Listen Again, so have some background. I think I may have to read the book though. she was such a facinating and compassionate woman.

This list is complementary to the one Lasttape posted on moving on I think, and while more general is rather lovely.

Did anyone else see 'Making Slough Happy' on the box? I thought it was really good - it was science of happiness stuff and seemed more sensible that some might assume. The list of happiness rules overlapped with the list Lasttape posted and made sense I thought.

Instructions for Life in the new millennium from the Dalai Lama:

1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three Rs: Respect for self, respect for others and responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go some place you've never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.