The countryside would have been pretty if it hadn't been sulking under grey skies and moisture-laden air. The weather couldn't make up its mind so it stayed in limbo—one of those classic English days that just sits there and, imitating a lot of people, irritates you with its indecision and grey apathy.Marie Browne, Narrow Margins (Mid-Glamorgan: Accent Press, 2009), p.
commonplace book. n. Formerly Book of common places (see commonplace n. 3). orig. A book in which ‘commonplaces’ or passages important for reference were collected, usually under general heads; hence, a book in which one records passages or matters to be especially remembered or referred to, with or without arrangement.
OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2015. Web. 5 April 2015.
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Saturday, September 10, 2016
A grey September day in England
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