I am sitting her at 9.40 am at my laptop writing this post. I have been awake since 7 am and have been sitting propped up in bed with tray of tea and biscuits and Mapp and Lucia. I have made myself get out of bed and log on as I have to do something to stop myself reading Lucia Triumphant. I simply must know that I have another Lucia and Mapp book waiting else what shall I do? I have just spent the last week reading the second omnibus edition containing Mapp and Lucia, Lucia's Progress and Trouble for Lucia. As in my previous post on these simply wonderful books, there is no need for me to write anything at all about the events in each story, as if you know and love them, this is superfluous to requirements, and if, like me until a few weeks ago, they are a mystery to you, then I am not going to spoil anything for future readers. One thing I simply must mention, which had me helpless with laughter, was the sight of Elizabeth and Lucia being swept out to sea on an upturned kitchen table and the tremendous sang-froid with which Lucia waves to the horrified onlookers: "She waved her hand and her clear voice rang out gaily across the waste of water. "Au reservoir, all of you" she cried. "We'll come back; just wait till we come back" and she was seen to put her arm around the huddled form of Mapp and comfort her. Priceless. I came to the end of these three stories and managed to hold off for one day until I turned to Lucia in Wartime a ...
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