Do you see the cobbles on the streets? Everywhere you look, stone & rock. Can you imagine what it feels like to reach down with your bones & feel the living stones? The city is built on itself, all the cities that came before. Can you imagine how it feels to lie down on an ancient flagstone & feel the power of the rock buoying you up against the tug of the world? And that's where witchcraft begins. The stones have life, & I'm part of it. - adapted from Terry Pratchett
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Tuesday, April 7, 2020
On Seeing the First Bare Chest of the Spring
Coronavirus. It's a real indicator of what people are made of. Personally I'm loving being at home but I gather some people are being driven up the wall.
And today I saw my first bare chest of the Spring. I must write to The Times.
Imagine if you had children and lived in a flat with them? Oh, the horror! I do sometimes - only sometimes, mind - feel something akin to sympathy for my sisters (but they live in houses with gardens, so not much that sympathy).
Did you find yourself temporarily blind after seeing the sun reflected of pale, winter skin? Or was it someone who'd been at the fake tan?
No it was someone who had already been on the sunbed. In 40 years he will look like a prune. A friend of my mother's used to attach her toddlers' reins to a stake in the garden and just leave them there, so there are advantages to bringing up children in a house.
Imagine if you had children and lived in a flat with them? Oh, the horror! I do sometimes - only sometimes, mind - feel something akin to sympathy for my sisters (but they live in houses with gardens, so not much that sympathy).
ReplyDeleteDid you find yourself temporarily blind after seeing the sun reflected of pale, winter skin? Or was it someone who'd been at the fake tan?
No it was someone who had already been on the sunbed. In 40 years he will look like a prune.
DeleteA friend of my mother's used to attach her toddlers' reins to a stake in the garden and just leave them there, so there are advantages to bringing up children in a house.