Good strong tea
A novel way to signal strong tea, its being so solid that it can support a mouse's weight. The more...
Wing-pointed leaves
Laurie Lee depicts a magical, medieval aspect, with creeper leaves reminding him of pointy eared devils.
''s-Hertogenbosch is no tourist...
Heavy-headed chrysanthemums
I love heavy-headed flowers, hand-span broad and beautiful. And yes, I also love daises, small, compact and resilient.
'Beneath the...
Hollowed-out pineapples
Having had refreshing cool drinks out of hollowed-out coconuts, I like hearing of the equivalent in pineapples, and of course,...
Like sticks of barley sugar
It's years since I saw a stick of barley sugar, and this perhaps dates Donald Hall's otherwise quite timeless writing....
Over-wrought fretwork
A damning description of Victorian writing, contrasted with the delicious sizzle and flavour of 'fat-bacon language'.
'After the fat-bacon language...
Glassy-blue shoreline
Glassy blue suggests bright blue eyes, and you can imagine the sea washing up azurely.
‘The islands are spread over...
Snow-blind sands
Eye dazzling whiteness of sand - I remember such a place in Brazil, where you could hardly gaze at the...
Straw-bonneted mothers
A warm, lively image of a Sunday morning family stroll to church.
'Dandy fathers and brothers, and straw-bonneted mothers, shepherd...
Toast-warm brick
A reference to Dublin, and another angle on the colour of bricks.
'Largely built by the English as a place...
Clay-furrowed faces
This conveys the inscribed grime and time of years of oppressively hard labour. I noticed recently that recurrent harsh weather...
Rich-painted caves
One sentence and tens of thousands of years of habitation and decoration.
'This is an old stretch of land whose...
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