15 October 2007

Grumpilliver's Travels

"'Frogs,' he would say, 'are slightly better than Huns or Wops, but abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.'"
- Uncle Matthew, Lord Alconleigh, in The Pursuit of Love, by Nancy Mitford

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nice to have you back,
CB

Anonymous said...

Yay! You're back! But also, Oh dear. I wonder what that quote meant. Surely you visited New York? (the whole fiend thing...)

hazelblackberry said...

Thank you. It's good to be back.