Love in the Time of Cholera

 Well, after several weeks of cloudless skies and soaring temperatures, after balmy walks through the fragrant rose gardens of Regents Park and sun soaked sojourns on the park benches of Holland Park; on the very night that our online ZOOM book club had finally reached the climactic, glorious end of our novel and were set for a long awaited get together in real life for a picnic in Kensington Gardens, what happens?

The sky is grey and rain trickles down for the first time in months. Wintry winds howl.  Three intrepid enthusiasts, Lucy, Ralf and I nevertheless meet up at the appointed time and take shelter in a little wooden hut where we read the lovely last passages as Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza sail up the Magdalena River under the Yellow Plague flag in an ecstatic  spirit of love and  abandon...

On to new reading matter and more sunshine next week I hope....