Dinah Rose KC

Congratulations!

Well let's be honest it is a straightforward brag.

He was fast asleep the whole time. Completely failed to notice or appreciate my massive achievement.

The Bridge House in Ambleside

17th Century Bridge House, Ambleside, Cumbria

Hmm. Wish I could find anything about Hamlet interesting. It's almost as dull as The Tempest.
Definitely a play you can't perform without an interval.
Macbeth on the other hand... a brisk 1hr 50 with some judicious cuts. And surely he's more interesting than Claudius ...

He acclimatised within a couple of hours. We are not letting him out unaccompanied, because the Great Outdoors is all around us, and we're worried he might get lost, or find his way to the road.

Yes, he is getting better with it, definitely. Though he is still very interested in attacking the lead.

Cat playing inside a multi-coloured, three- pronged tunnel with a ball of a string hanging from the roof.

He is definitely not short of toys...

He absolutely took it in his stride. Very settled. Eating like a horse, gaining weight, and lively.
Our main problem is that he's desperate to wander outside, but there are no safe boundaries here, and he's only 5 months old and on meds.
We've tried a little harness and lead - with mixed success!

For oft when on my couch I lie
in vacant or in pensive mood...

As do the flared ears

A tub of freshly picked Blackcurrants.

Last year the birds got to my blackcurrants before I could.
This year I am the victor!

Ha ha - no need to apologise! He's doing really well...

I think a bit too soon...still on medication...

It came from a place in Columbia Road that mainly sold earthenware garden containers, about 30 years ago ...!

Grey cat sitting on papers on my desk in front of a window with a view out to the green hillside. A blue jug on the windowsill.

Ozzy in Cumbria

How sharper than a serpents tooth

You are absolutely right about Daniel Deronda, though.

I will be stretching that definition but humour me!! I will do this!

I love to be in bed by 10.

I adore a 70 minute play with no interval...
Intense, focused and finished before 9pm. Ideal.

The cat sits on a stool in front of Donner, at a film camera

Philippe Le Tellier took a series of shots of the feline star of Clive Donner’s 1965 film What’s New Pussycat on the set. I haven’t been able to learn much about this kitty; he or she has no credit at IMDb.

Here with the director, in a short thread for #caturday

But did Bingley intend Darcy to marry Miss Bingley? or was that just her idea..

Your last sentence is the clue to interpreting it, I think....the question is what it is that you've been trying to get on the road.

"Better drowned than duffers. If not duffers won't drown..."

@lsdandkizuki.bsky.social One for you, Katie...

Coniston Water, I believe...

A bare tree with five cormorants perched on its upper branches. Blue sky.

Cormorants surveying Windermere

Yes...Best to start from Ambleside...

That's fairly accurate. He also admits new Fellows, and provides support to students. But he's currently enjoying the long vac in the Lake District.