Among the bevy of girls, there was a country hoyden!

“She reached the valley of the  Great Dairies, the valley in which milk and butter grew to rankness, and were produced more profusely, if less delicately than at her home- the verdant plain so well watered by the river Var or Froom.” TESS OF D’URBERVILLES Man’s intercourse with the world is malleable. It changes tooContinue reading “Among the bevy of girls, there was a country hoyden!”

It was all blue for me. The old man, The sea!

In the past few days, the weather conditions have been very sharp here. No Sun. Cold. Chilly wind. And I am inside my ‘eiderdown’ posting all my pending reviews on the books. Just random thoughts, indeed. ‘Eiderdown’, this word I found in a Katherine Mansfield story I was reading yesterday. It is a sort of duvet which is madeContinue reading “It was all blue for me. The old man, The sea!”