Walked to cafe Church this morning, and took the above snapshot of the white doves that inhabit the nooks and crannies of our (just) pre Tudor Deanery tower. After an early frost the weather was very mild and some of the doves seemed to think springtime was at hand and were behaving as if the breeding season was about to recur. Ah well, good luck to them, say I, Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, and make hay while the sun shines, for youth's a stuff that won't endure; and there's a thoroughly mixed bag of metaphores (or quotes anyway). As we used to say at school - Have you never met a metaphore afore ?
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Carpe diem et occupet extremum scabies, one might add, if one wanted to mix the quotations further.
I was talking to the Headmaster today, he and his wife are spending a couple of nights in Canterbury over half term. He said it'll be at a guesthouse in the Cathedral Close, so I told him that you'd given a very good report of it - I should think it's the same place.
The doves were certainly seizing the day, Z, or at any rate the opportunity.
It must be the same guesthouse I think. It's the only one in the Cathedral close. They'll love it; it's so conveniently close (sorry Rog- awful puns are your pigeon, I know) to the city centre.
We celebrated our engagement at the Canterbury Lodge and bought my fire opal ring at the jewellers opposite the Cathedral gate. A very romantic interlude!
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