Glorious

 I love the Baroque in all its forms, art, architecture, music and literature, and I love the France and court of Louis XIV.  This, found on YouTube, is one of the better representations of all of that.

https://youtu.be/ClCe0iZGVK4?si=62uaeF5oErh3leRj

Excellent Woman

 'Crampton Hodnet' was the one novel by Barbara Pym that I hadn't read and now I have rectified that. For a first novel, for any novel, it is quite an achievement. Characterisation is in need of some fleshing out, perhaps, but the dialogue is all one could want, the setting perfectly created, and the humour, dry and observant, already fully fashioned. Now I am embarking on a Pym re-readathon starting with 'Jane and Prudence.' A chap in my position has to grab all the comfort reading he can.