I am having a lovely time reading about Guaman Poma and his Illustrated Chronicle from colonial Peru. This is an extraordinary book of text and drawings he finished in 1615 in which he details the anguish of the Peruvian native people under Spanish rule and asks the King to intervene. I have ordered several books on it, one has arrived, two more to go as I intend to write about him for Alpaca World magazine. It has cheered me up no end as it won’t stop raining and I am rather depressed by my lack of blood glucose control. Chas says I should throw away the medical books and not think about end stage kidney failure, blindness etc etc as I just worry and probably make it all worse! He has a point.
Josh is off to the South of France today for a short holiday with his father who has moved there permanently. It is 25 degrees, not bad. We turned the heating on in the office today as it was so cold.