Trials And Tribs

This afternoon, I had intended to drive to the gym and swimming pool but my car would not start and I had to wait several hours until a busy RAC (Royal Automobile Club) man arrived to replace the battery so blog readers have read more posts than they would otherwise have done but shortly I will attend the mediation group so there should not be much more posting this evening and I still have not finished rereading the short story, "In The Shadow," which, as ever with Poul Anderson, is proving to be more interesting than expected because, although a dark star in remote space is an uninviting setting for a fictional narrative, the ideas, speculations and character interactions in the story more than compensate for this cheerless environment.