Thank you! Yes, why isn't there a biography of PB? It's rather strange that Candida Lycett-Green didn't write one. I struggled to interest publishers in the novel (which adheres to the life). So I published it for the author myself. We'd have loved to use the famous picture of Moti the horse, but the reproduction fee was astronomical...

Dear India I hope I’m using Notes correctly - this is just to say - WOW! My Beauty Box has arrived and the utter gorgeousness of it! You might have heard my squeals of delight over in Fram, as a seemingly endless supply of marvellous things emerged, also delighting the cats, who do enjoy a cardboard box. THANK YOU THANK YOU. Your posts are always a terrific treat in themselves and have cheered me up no end in these sodding rainy days… On which subject, I’ve reluctantly bought a trench/rain…