dramas pouring out from everyone around me, my day started early from disappointment from england to the fantasy of a perfect ukrainian bride, to the passive aggressive behaviour of a friend and me realising that he is sucking the life out from my veins, i can't stand it and have to leave, he's not happy, churning up inside like a bag of boiling blood. i guess all those new age courses, juicing it up, raw food and forum cult courses only get you so far.
the rest of the day is delightful, i make a big lentil, chickpea soup, with garlic, fennel and leek, various herbs and spices. i take pan for a long walk and then i sit in the sun and read stephen baxters book, 'coalescent'

which is three narratives, one set in the roman era where a young lady watches the fall of an empire and forges a new society based on 'hive' qualities, meanwhile the other thread is set in contemporary times and follows a middle aged man looking for his lost sister under the backdrop of an alien object appearing in the kuiper belt, the third where the two timelines coalesce, this series is part of a trilogy but is also part of a wider story known as the 'zeelee' sequence.

im not a huge baxter fan, i read two of his early books but i'm determined to give him another chance and i plan to read the whole of his 'zeelee' series in chronological order, i had set myself asimov as my science fiction indulgence but i think i'm going to stick with baxter and see where he takes me.
there's some very fine stuff coming out of the uk at the moment. baxter is extremely dry, filling his books with the most mundane details but his writing portrays  three dimensional flawed people and i must admit he spins a good yarn.