Catch up at Sam's

Hi all,
I'm feeling pretty cheery today . How are you ?
Last time I wrote a blog entry I was about to go on a blind date . The date was good. I'm probably not going to see my datee again ( no spark) and usually I'd been sort of blue about it but I've decided to look on the rosy side of life from now on. And I got through the date without gibbering too much and I actually had a good time. So it could have been a lot worse.
Helping my cheery mood along tremendously was a surprise bunch of flowers from Sam who picked them up because he knows I like tulips and good thing number two, was the exceedingly honest customer at our Amazon book shop, who wrote very nice things about us.
Anyway a catch up on the shop ,low is still away, Malcolm is looking a little moth eaten and even greyer than normal. Two is reading the Richard Dawkins' book The Greatest Show on Earth and explaining bits to me. Mainly bits he knows I'll enjoy, about marsupials and the lack of native mammals in New Zealand. Sam is learning sleight of hand tricks and keeps pulling feather flowers out of people's ears . He isn't very good but is endearingly focused on following the instructions in his book to the letter and learning the unconvincing patter.
I am reading What I loved by Siri Hustvedt for book group.This is not the Sam Haines book group -that was disbanded following the Life of Pi riot.No this is a library based group where most of us are surprisingly mature when we disagree with each other. Hustvedt's novel is a curiously complex book. It has that hyper detailed but ultimately plotlessness of a dream remembered next morning. Still that's the point of a reading group, to make you aware of other authors and other types of writing that those you would normal encounter.