give a shout out

to all the jane austen fans out there in the world. liz took me to winchester cathedral for the day. can i say again how very lovely the weather has been in england - day after day of sun and 70-ish degree weather.

i'll leave you with a few fitting quotes from the late ms. austen:

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

food eaten: one large, dense, traditional pasty. i gotta say, though, it was not my fav. they have a whole repertoire of pasties though. of particular interest to me was the spicy chickpea and potato; or curried parsnip; or west country pork, apple, and cornish cider. funny how we turn a workingman's sandwich into a more proper fandangled masterpiece. really, it's just a pasty.


a schoolchild playground rhyme from the 1940's:

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John,

ate a pasty five feet long,

Ate it once, ate it twice,

Oh my Lord, it's full of mice