Has been reading with interest Ifor Williams's Enwau Lleoedd.
He is reading proofs of Trwy diroedd y dwyrain, his book on Egypt. Gwasg Gomer is anxious to have it out for the Clwb Llyfrau Cymraeg.
A week ago he was staggered to receive a letter from the British Academy nominating him for election as the new President in succession to Sir John Clapham.