Firstly, some daffodils for St David’s Day:
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Tag: wales
dydd dewi sant
It’s St David’s Day, and they say Tri chynnig i Gymro, so it seems appropriate to post three photos, all taken in Wales.
In every town and village
grey stones
grey skies
village scenes
I went for a brief walk this morning and was struck by how eminently English** everything seemed.
First of all, although not actually raining, it was so dark and wintry that the streetlights were on despite the fact it was nearly 10am:
‘a tower to the sun’
castillos en el aire – ilusiones lisonjeras con poco o ningún fundamento
I wonder how many Spaniards realise that as well as building castles in the air, English speakers also build castles in Spain.
Perhaps more to the point, I wonder why we do.
Brewer tells me that
[…] air-castles were called by the French Châteaux d’Espagne because Spain has no châteaux.
I wonder who told him that yarn.
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time to stand and stare
Travelling in the UK, I seem to be in headless chicken mode, with no time to sit and think or write, and yet achieving very little. Yesterday, though, I took a walk , as it was a glorious, slightly blustery, English summer afternoon.
I’ve commented before on the monkey puzzle in my mother’s village, but I’d never seen it with cones before:
don't confuse the narrator 