#215: Cottage
‘I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them…I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage.’ – Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
‘I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them…I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage.’ – Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Whisky, or in Gaelic, Uisge Beatha; literally, the water of life.
‘The idea of a slow approach to the luxury of leisure drove him wild.’ – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Offshore Pirate
Seems fair enough to me.
My Grandpy was a shepherd and worked on the same farm for decades. When he died, this field, which is where all the lambing ewes are bought before going into the sheds to give birth, was given our family’s name.
‘She wore ribbons in her black hair and clung to her dreams’ – Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County
Phantassie Dovecot, one of the many that can be found in East Lothian.