Currently listening to: Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5, intermittently interrupted by the rather loud raindrops falling outside the office window . . . and some random bird chatter.

Just Received and Far Too Excited About: fountain pens! I rarely get the opportunity to indulge my pen addiction, but Mr. Inkslinger and I went wild (for us) over fountain pens and sent for three modest examples of same.

Still Reading and Enjoying: May Sarton's Journal of a Solitude in between reading a few other works for work/other projects. One of the latter being Fred Stenson's The Great Karoo. I probably would not have picked up a book about Canadian cowboys in the Boer War on my own, but I have to say it's now inhabiting my imagination.

Recently Watched (Again): My sister's birthday saw a return to Sherlock Holmes. She was keen to watch the film again and we went to see it as part of her birthday celebrations, dragging my aunt (who hadn't seen it) along with us. It didn't disappoint the second time around. And the Holmes theme was revisited when Mr. Inkslinger gave her a pristine copy of the Folio Society edition of The Hound of the Baskervilles that he found in an old, dusty (and, therefore, fascinating) book shoppe in town. Lovely Mr. Inkslinger. :)

But now it's back to work, work, work (though, since it involves reading and writing, I'm not really going to complain about it).