I was just re-reading "Tess of the D'Urbervilles". What a cheerful fellow Thomas Hardy isn't. But he recreates the rural life so vividly. And here is a glimpse of Winter.
"When she (Tess of the D's) lit her lamp to get up in the morning, she found that the snow had blown through a chink in the casement, forming a white cone of the finest powder against the inside, and had also come down the chimney, so that it lay sole-deep upon the floor, on which her shoes left tracks when she moved about. Without, the storm drove so fast as to create a snow-mist in the kitchen; but as yet it was too dark out-of-doors to see anything."
Well we have had a tiny bit of rain here - which thankfully has not poured down our (non-existent) chimney - but not nearly enough. Our green is brown already. So we are hoping for rain this weekend, as promised.
What have I been doing apart from reading? Not a lot, owing to my arthritic state. Shopping, cooking... a little bit of housework. My studying of course. I got to the meeting last night. The teaching is so wonderful - what sort of state would I be in now without it?
Ronald asked me if I could give him a lift back home, which I did.
I talked to Anne of The Cape and have followed up with an email. I hope to be out on the field service with June tomorrow.
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