Checking in From The Couch

I am going to be the 99th person in the world to tell you that if you haven't watched The Crown then you are missing out! Golly but I love it.

I love British royalty and I am 99% sure that I live in the wrong country and maybe the American revolution wasn't quite the grandest thing that has ever happened. (But I still love you America because, well, I am not British.)

You may have seen The New Yorker humor column that said this:  "This two-hundred-and-forty-year experiment in self-rule began with the best of intentions, but I think we can all agree that it didn't end well," she said." 

All the LOLs. But to further my British viewing pleasure we have also been watching the new season of The Great British Baking Show that came to Netflix. I loved it in 2015 and I love it just as much now. It's so calm. It's got the loveliest kitchen tent. The people are wonderful and they're baking, though half the stuff I've never heard of. Which, of all ironies, one of the things that really confused the lot (British slang!) was angel food cake. 

And then, this past week I read The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan. 

You guys, if you need a good fun read this is the book for you. It doesn't involve much thinking, it's definitely fluff, but it was such fun to read! It's British/Scottish and features a mobile bookshop, love, men in kilts and even though the ending is ever so predictable it reads like a swell romantic comedy movie and if they make this into a movie I'd go. This would be a wonderful travel book. It is not going to change your life but it will probably make you feel warm inside when you're done. 

Alright, I am going to sign off and keep watching the Brits make choux pastry.