Just got a heads up from my sister across the pond. Apparently the BBC has done an adaptation (another adaptation? I seem to remember one back in the 1970s) of Bleak House, and my sister says it is superb.

Coincidentally, I just started re-reading Pickwick Papers, which I do every 5 years or so. What a wonderful book! Why isn’t there a copy in the Senate library? On recent evidence, I feel quite sure there isn’t…