Also, yesterday I fulfilled a life-long - well, since my teens, so a sort of half-life-long - dream and went to Haworth to the Brontës' house. Unlike most fulfilled dreams, it wasn't disappointing at all. It was really moving being in their house, seeing the table where Emily made bread while teaching herself German from a book propped up on the utensils, and I'm very glad I went. Afterwards we ate pies and drank pints in the Black Bull, where Branwell fostered his chronic alcoholism (a fact they are strangely proud to advertise), and then went for a walk on the actual moors, which are, well, wuthering and very wild and strange and beautiful. I wish we could have stayed longer. But it was a good ending to a really great weekend.
the rise of civilisation
Also, yesterday I fulfilled a life-long - well, since my teens, so a sort of half-life-long - dream and went to Haworth to the Brontës' house. Unlike most fulfilled dreams, it wasn't disappointing at all. It was really moving being in their house, seeing the table where Emily made bread while teaching herself German from a book propped up on the utensils, and I'm very glad I went. Afterwards we ate pies and drank pints in the Black Bull, where Branwell fostered his chronic alcoholism (a fact they are strangely proud to advertise), and then went for a walk on the actual moors, which are, well, wuthering and very wild and strange and beautiful. I wish we could have stayed longer. But it was a good ending to a really great weekend.
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nature walk
I am still alive, and the evil production week is nearly over. Hurrah! To keep sane I have gone for a walk (and a lie down on the grass with a book,…
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animal crackers
One of my greatest acquisitions in London came courtesy of
felinitykat and, before her,
slemslempike (thanks,…
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is it christmas yet?
Oh, I loved it. A perfect ending to a great series. I thought the Dalek Vs Cybermen war was an inspired move - I know some people thought it was…
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nature walk
I am still alive, and the evil production week is nearly over. Hurrah! To keep sane I have gone for a walk (and a lie down on the grass with a book,…
-
animal crackers
One of my greatest acquisitions in London came courtesy of
felinitykat and, before her,
slemslempike (thanks,…
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is it christmas yet?
Oh, I loved it. A perfect ending to a great series. I thought the Dalek Vs Cybermen war was an inspired move - I know some people thought it was…