Fuschia

Back home today, and definitely nothing clever by way of a blip (although I am only just about a week short of the big 730 so I had better get my thinking cap on). I was interested to see that all the commentators liked yesterday's building.

Busy domestically oriented morning, quiet afternoon with books and ipads and whatever, cultural evening at the Lyceum as the EIF draws to a close.

I was torn, when contemplating today's link, between obituaries of Rhodes Boyson and Max Bygraves (the latter definitely fell into the category of people I thought had already died and so was surprised to see the obituary of...), but plumped instead for a quietly catty interview with AC Grayling in the New Humanist, about his vanity project, the New College for the Humanities.

This is a fine concluding paragraph: "So is NCH a product of Anthony Grayling's altruism - so palpable in his many acts of generosity and decency? Or another example of the over-developed ego of the man who rewrote God's word? To launch such a venture requires great resources of self-belief - and risks hubris. But you also need huge reservoirs of sincerity and self-confidence to believe that you are saving the humanities in this country, if not the entire university system." Hard to better.