peculiarities
How's this for accurate? From Roy Porter:
“And when they could not be passed off as virtues, the peculiarities of
the English – their cantankerousness or hypochondria – was put down to the
island’s unsettled climate, which was obviously reponsibile for those
other treasured character traints, eccentricity and contrariness.”
That is SO a description of me! Cantankerous, eccentricity and contrariness in SPADES... and did I tell you I have an earache?
“And when they could not be passed off as virtues, the peculiarities of
the English – their cantankerousness or hypochondria – was put down to the
island’s unsettled climate, which was obviously reponsibile for those
other treasured character traints, eccentricity and contrariness.”
That is SO a description of me! Cantankerous, eccentricity and contrariness in SPADES... and did I tell you I have an earache?
posted by erdreid at 04:48
3 Comments:
Hi Deirdre,
Just back from a month in Nepal, fascinating country.
I feel these words also describe me quite well. Though I've heard eccentricity flows more strongly in the north.
My garden is growing, spring is great.
see ya
Ouch, that must be painful.
Thanks for the postcard, I prised it out of her grip before she digested the corner!
Someone told me recently that hypochondria is lethal.
Thanks for your writing, Deirdre.
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