The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and 10.10.10
It has been an odd few days. Ian was laid low with the flu and spent Friday and much of Saturday in bed. Most unfairly all that lying down affected his back so he was doubly stricken. He is generally so energetic and so rarely ill that it quite takes me by surprise to have him really poleaxed by something. Heroically he got up on Saturday afternoon and insisted that he was OK to go out in the evening. The reason for going out was a special occasion: a dinner at The Wizard Inn in Alderley Edge with family and friends of Alan Garner to celebrate the fact that Alan's book " The Weirdstone of Brisingamen " has been in print for fifty years. In fact its fiftieth birthday was 10.10.10. I first read the Weirdstone when I was about eleven years old and I can hardly now remember the time when I did not know the story. Two children, Colin and Susan, are drawn into a battle with evil forces which seek to capture a bracelet which Susan wears on her wr...