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I got it !!!

Good, Rusty - I thought you'd maybe post a totally empty message, just to get a (another) name check!

Hello, Malone!
I do not normally do the crossword until later in the day (my teatime treat) but this has given me a good start, for when I get there!

Morning, Malone!
If I have it right, it is very appropriately named for one of us?

I'm glad Rusty didn't give any of us any problems this morning!

Good afternoon, Rusty!
Yes, it took me a long time to read the chapters on "Land and "Inhabitants" because I felt a strong need to retain the images in my head whilst I was reading...and I found I had go back here and there and read a passage over again, in order to do this......most especially the descriptions about the land.
I couldn't pass that particular point until I had done this.
Is this making any sense to you?
Did you find this?
The last time I experienced this peculiarity was at the very beginning of "War and Peace".
Tolstoy's descriptions of his characters were such that , as the reader, I felt I had to get them "just right" in my mental vision!
I could allow for no possible mistake!
(This probably sounds very convoluted, but I hope you are following what I mean!)

No can do yet, malone. Probably a bit thick today.

Tidying up my loft (well, attempting to wade in!) I found some files of jokes. They were collected by my sons from famous people many years ago, to make a book for a charity long since defunct. I find I have signed letters from, eg both Ronnies, Bill Beaumont, Victoria Wood, Lenny Henry and Ken Livingstone to name but a few! We never did publish the book (not enough material) but maybe now........

Hello Elle, Rusty and everyone !

Very hot day particularly for this time of the year, but since early afternoon I've been watching hundreds of house-martins/swallows (?)
gathering on electric cables - and about an hour ago, they all left.

They are the latest birds to arrive in late Spring and the first ones to leave in early Autumn. But I have not seen nor heard any cranes yet.

It's a word you have seen frequently on this thread, amongst others, rosalind.

Thanks chrise