#285: Puppy
‘He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed — a kind of amiable absurdity.’ – Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
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#284: Little brown jug
‘She loves gin and I love rum, And don’t we have a lot of fun! Ha, ha, ha, you and me, Little brown jug, don’t I love thee!’ – Traditional song
#283: Silver birch
‘She looked at a silver birch: it would have a soft, showery voice and would look like a slender girl, with hair blown all about her face and fond of dancing.’ – C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian
#282: Tree
‘To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.’ – Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree
#281: One for sorrow
‘One for sorrow, Two for joy, Three for a girl, Four for a boy’ – Traditional rhyme But don’t worry, a second magpie for joy was there too in the background!!
#280: The Seine
‘You’ll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.’ – E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
#279: Dessert
‘Dessert is to a meal what a dress is to a woman.’ – Béatrice Peltre
#278: York Minster (2012)
‘We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.’ – Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
#277: Marilyn Monroe
‘Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.’ – Marilyn Monroe
#276: Penguin
‘The answer to every problem involved penguins.’ – Rick Riordan, The Throne of Fire