Some random photos from Friday/Saturday today while I randomly ramble on about nothing in particular.
Talking of quotes, as we were yesterday, we were out on Monday evening and I said something I thought was funny. Neil made me write it down as I always say I will remember these things and I never do. So the next morning I found this piece of paper lying around the house and on it was written:
“He shouldn’t be a man, let alone a woman.”
And I have no idea what it related to or why it was funny, and it had nothing to do with being at the kafeneion at the time; well, not too much to do with it at least. But thank you for the nice comments about yesterday’s quotes from the new book. Here’s another one, again spoken by a character and to be used as the heading for one of the chapters:
“There are very few faces in this world that I don’t find attractive, and that woman has both of them.”
It’s a bit of a reworking of the quote that sometimes pops up at the top of these pages, in one of the revolving image headers. I have some more of those to go up at some point, maybe I should add some of these quotes too. Trouble is, they don’t really mean much out of context. Here’s another one for you, but remember the story is set in the fictional seaside resort of Middlestone on Sea. I should point out to any of my old school chums, friends from Romney Marsh and my family who may be reading, that Middlestone does more than vaguely resemble Littlestone on Sea mixed with Greatstone on Sea. And the quote is:
‘A man may be tired of life when tired of London, but when a man says he is tired of Middlestone, no one is surprised.’ Walter Farley-Fairystack (Traveller and Diarist) 1835 – 1921
Obviously that one was made up by me. Here is a random quote for you to mull over. I’m heading to the book shelf opposite me and taking down a very famous novel, I am going to open it to page 284 (today being the 28th of April) and write down the first sentence. See if you can figure out from that what the novel is. Here you go:
“Good-bye, my dear. I pray God I may never see your sweet face again. May He bless and keep you!”
And for a clue, the character is slightly barking-loony at this point. Well, he is throughout the whole story actually. No prizes, but can you guess the novel?
