Leaden-coloured sky
Having enjoyed a sunny afternoon, I am now looking out to a leaden-coloured sky, but it doesn't feel like a...
No summer is long enough
Referring to the Arctic, where the summers are short and the winters long, this rueful statement made me think about...
Dimmit dimmity
An English south-west dialect word for dusk or twilight, hinted at in the opening 'dim...'.
'At dimmity it flew down...
Peat-dark waves
A description of wild swans floating on the night sea. I like that Maxwell uses peat, a local material, to...
Tar-black skies
This struck me because it's a rare sight, skies are rarely tar-black in or near cities. But this is Barcelona...
Germania through Roman eyes
Winder's Germania shows how far we, and Hollywood, view ancient Germany through the eyes of ancient Rome, a boggy and terrifying 'light-deprived...
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