Trillium of Bloom
May. 14th, 2025 08:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ismoI got a brief glimpse of Queenie this morning as she arrived in town to have lunch with the Duchess. She left a gift bag on the porch, and I came out and waved when she was at a safe distance. The bag held some Buc-ee mints, a thermal mug decorated with pictures of horses and flowers, and an Iittala candle holder from Marquette. The last item was special. When we were growing up, our university town had several fancy gift shops that imported things like that--Iittala, Marimekko, Arabia--all these fancy things we could not afford to buy. But we were always window shopping and imagining what our houses would look like when we grew up and somehow magically became both wealthy and hip. Now I'm still neither, but I do have an artistic candle holder that will sparkle like icicles in the sun when illuminated.
Then she went off to have lunch and do her trip errands while I retired somewhat disconsolately to the back yard. The Sparrowhawk made me a consolation breakfast with bacon and eggs and toast. The day started off damp and cloudy, but the sun came out, and it was a beautiful afternoon. I fear I may have had a bit of a relapse today. I don't feel as good as I did yesterday. However, I was determined to move about a little more and do at least a few small things around the house. I cut up the remains of the chicken, and some strawberries, scrubbed the cutting board, put away some residual laundry and made the bed, and cleaned the dust, pollen, and maple seeds off the outdoor table so we could have breakfast there.
As one does when sick, I recently watched "Pride and Prejudice"--in this case, the Keira Knightley movie. When I first saw it, I considered it inferior (of course) to the BBC mini-series, but I recently read a review in which the author stubbornly claimed it had virtues the other version didn't have. So I re-watched it, and found some of his statements partially true. Since then I've ben dipping into the book. Diagnosing characters in retrospect is quite a popular pastime, so I'm sure that others have said this before me, but I'm inclining to the view that Mr. Collins is autistic. He's socially awkward and often practices his speeches to make sure he gets them right. He's rather rigid in his thinking, and when something unexpected intrudes on his plan, he finds it hard to cope. He obsesses over objects and numbers. He has favorite topics and doesn't realize that other people are not as interested in them and wish he would stop talking. Anyway, it's a thought, and perhaps makes the poor fellow a bit more sympathetic.
Then she went off to have lunch and do her trip errands while I retired somewhat disconsolately to the back yard. The Sparrowhawk made me a consolation breakfast with bacon and eggs and toast. The day started off damp and cloudy, but the sun came out, and it was a beautiful afternoon. I fear I may have had a bit of a relapse today. I don't feel as good as I did yesterday. However, I was determined to move about a little more and do at least a few small things around the house. I cut up the remains of the chicken, and some strawberries, scrubbed the cutting board, put away some residual laundry and made the bed, and cleaned the dust, pollen, and maple seeds off the outdoor table so we could have breakfast there.
As one does when sick, I recently watched "Pride and Prejudice"--in this case, the Keira Knightley movie. When I first saw it, I considered it inferior (of course) to the BBC mini-series, but I recently read a review in which the author stubbornly claimed it had virtues the other version didn't have. So I re-watched it, and found some of his statements partially true. Since then I've ben dipping into the book. Diagnosing characters in retrospect is quite a popular pastime, so I'm sure that others have said this before me, but I'm inclining to the view that Mr. Collins is autistic. He's socially awkward and often practices his speeches to make sure he gets them right. He's rather rigid in his thinking, and when something unexpected intrudes on his plan, he finds it hard to cope. He obsesses over objects and numbers. He has favorite topics and doesn't realize that other people are not as interested in them and wish he would stop talking. Anyway, it's a thought, and perhaps makes the poor fellow a bit more sympathetic.
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Date: 2025-05-15 01:11 pm (UTC)I am currently reading some P&P soulmark AUs: https://archiveofourown.org/users/AMarguerite/profile - fun!