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Happy birthday, catvalente!

3 weeks for DW: wise, witty and tender sayings 9

When men decide that a woman has character and will be all right, they usually also decide that there is no need to worry about her feelings.
Stella Gibbons, Here Be Dragons (1956)

100 things blogging challenge 19

The 100 things blogging challenge.

Elisabeth Welch sings Ivor Novello's 'The Girl I Knew':

Layers

Returning yet again to the town where I was born, and the strange feeling -

Not just at the changes that have taken place over the years ('what used to be there?') -

but because certain parts of the town have become recurrent parts of dreamscapes.

Not necessarily the parts one would think but certain fairly banal streets, which thus gain a slightly spooky overlay even though they remain banal. Because they do not have a sinister quality and do not turn off into some entirely different landscape. And perhaps I have dreamt that enough times that I think that they should and the remaining banal is what is spooky and strange.