Biblioproblem?

We are having our sitting room redecorated in the coming week or so, new carpet, new colour on the walls, new hearth. This, of course, means emptying the room of all that is movable in preparation. In doing this I may have to acknowledge that I find it hard to say no to books!!

There are now numerous smaller piles in my study - these are gardening and art history

and two very large piles (almost teetering in fact) in my dear heart's study - the "oversize" collection of history and art history

This is the contents of just one room - it doesn't include: the two bookcases under the stairs (more art history, textiles, and design), three in my study (embroidery, textiles, mythology, philosophy, more history. poetry), four in his study (Africa, aircraft, general and history), one in the sewing room (embroidery, knitting and crochet), another in the upstairs "anything" room (more Africa, more history) and the small collection in the kitchen (cookery of course). A few have been put to one side for the charity shop box, but not very many. I may have acquired some of these since the last culling twelve years ago!

I wonder if one can take bibliophilia too far?

Quiet corner

I can see these flowers from my kitchen window as I potter about. I have been loving the little gathering of warm colours, part of the corner display my dear heart put together for our open gardens day back in July. Two delicious dahlias and, in between, cheerfully nodding cosmos. We have been dead heading and watering as much as energy will allow and they are rewarding us with this heartwarming display

Elsewhere the garden is sparse and brown, but some good heavy downpours are forecast, at long last, for the south east corner, so perhaps things will green up a little before we dive down into winter. 

Gardening is all about hope isn't it?