As I wrote in the yesterday page of my diary,
I went to visit my old friend’s daughter.
She’s a bit formal, but it’s because of her life habits,
basically she would be very easy going, if she could.
I cannot reveal the subjects of our private conversation, of course.

I’m very reserved about my friends and acquaintances’ private lives,
even though they are all very open and trust me largely enough to open their hearts to me.

Nevertheless, since someone kindly asked me for that,
I can satisfy your curiosity about the present I had bought for Lizzie.

I offered her a DVD of a good movie called “ The Queen” directed by Stephen Frears (one of my favourite directors) and a little book by Alan Bennett called “The Uncommon Reader”.

By the way, and I beg you to believe it’s not a joke, I have a double copy of this book and I’d be happy to send it as gift to one of my few, but faithful readers.

Let’s consider it as the unpretentious prize for a little quiz.

I mention often some of my past and present friends, several of them were writers. The first person who will write to my personal email

Aunt.VioletBear@gmail.com

mentioning exactly, by their name and surname, at least two of the writers I could count among my personal friends, will receive the promised copy of the book (of course if they give me a postal address).

It will be a real pleasure for this old lady to be sharing a clever,
humorous and wise little book with someone loving fancy and reading.