During an extended stay in hospital some years back when, among other things, I could not concentrate to read - a sentence or two and my head started swimming, I chose to write some poetry about the characters of Jane Austen, as I had recently read her books. Indeed I had to retire at that point and as part of a leaving present was given her novels as spoken books. Anyway, as you might imagine most of the fifty plus poems I wrote were dire. Every now and then I dig through them to find one I feel like updating. She is still, by far, my favourite author.