This has nothing to do with your comment (Though va-va-VOOM, claret-colored dress! I hope it was velvet, too), but I would like to state that I sat around with a tab open to your blog for HOURS, randomly clicking “Send” and being REJECTED by WordPress every time until FINALLY, I overcame and was able to post the fairly useless comment above. I just wanted to point that out to you to show you how much effort I expend on behalf of my beloveds and point out that in just a couple of months, I will be able to COMMENT ON YOUR BLOG POSTS TO YOUR FACE. Whoa 🙂

Um, I actually like the idea of ‘sew the whole shut again.’ (and I do, really.) or… oh, never mind.

VIOLA! (I lurve that word.)

raspberries.

Pls keep doin’ what you do and keep reading stuff that I haven’t read and want to (cough, like Dorothy Sayers) and keep blogging about it all cuz I think it is just delightful.

Thank you?

‘Five Red Herrings’. No, it’s not my favourite, either. Sayers wrote about it to her publisher that she’d written it in response to some critics who had complained that in her last book Wimsey had fallen in love and “talked too discursively”. About ‘Five Red Herrings’, she wrote that “no-one falls in love, and every sentence is necessary to the plot!” She wasn’t quite right about that, and the railway alibi stuff is tedious, but there are excellent bits, in my opinion.