I’ll be dipping into The Harold Nicolson Diaries and perhaps a few other books this week to provide you with some very lazy but hopefully still enjoyable posts. This week is a bit mad for me – I start my new job on Tuesday and am also preparing for an exam I write on Saturday – but hopefully I should be back in the swing of things by next week. For now, here’s an entertaining diary entry from Harold Nicolson from March 15, 1949:
…I go to the [Army & Navy] Stores to get them to make into a suit the tweed that Nigel gave me. I say I want it double-breasted. The man is deeply shocked. “Surely not, sir; not in the country.” I say I don’t care a hoot and it must be double-breasted. “It will give you a Continental look, sir.” “That is what I require. I have always wanted to be mistaken for an Austrian count.”
The Captive Reader 
I am sorry not that I recently parted with the three original volumes. I only read part of the first one, and they’d been sitting on the shelves for the past 23 years and thought it was about time to part with them … oh dear!
I know the feeling Margaret. There’s nothing like culling a long-unread book to make you want to read it.
Hahahaha, oh Harold Nicolson.
Yay for new jobs! Congratulations! And I’ll look forward to more posts from this book. I love this first one.
Best wishes for the new job. Did you need a new, impressive tweed suit for the interview?
The best of luck at your new job! Congrats!
I love that diary entry.