positively magnificent

The British weather this summer has not been good. There has been a lot of rain, so much that the hose pipe ban has been lifted. This passage from a birthday book made me smile.

"Have you observed," began Evelyn with a giggle, "that Mrs. Thatcham's one criterion of a beautiful day is whether or not it is possible to see across as far as the Malton Downs? 'Can you, or can you not, see across to the Malton Downs?' -that is the only question. For the farther you can see, - why, the more beautiful the day! And not the day only, either, for the beauties of the landscape, and the countryside also, hinge entirely on the answer to that question."

Evelyn sniggered, and continued, warming to her subject: "Thus, if it is possible for Mrs. Thatcham to see two counties at once from the top of the hill, then the view from there is a fine one, -the country exceedingly lovely. If three counties are visible at the same time, it is then more lovely than ever, - the country-side positively magnificent, and so on and so forth." Julia Strachey Cheerful Weather for the Wedding

view

What are your criteria for a beautiful day?

A haze of loveliness

To counteract our thoughts of dowdiness some beauty.

haze

'But she could never escape from her beauty; it clung to her like a mist, like a skin, so that she seemed to move in a haze of loveliness. Everything she touched, every word she used took on this quality of grace; her very gloves and handkerchiefs were romantic.' Antonia White Frost in May

Wishing you all a haze of loveliness weekend.

Favourite words.

I'd been mulling a post about favourite word. You've probably noticed from my comments that I use the words

'ooooh'

ooh

and 'lovely' an awful lot.

lovely

I'd thought that perhaps I should add another favourite word and had thought it would be

'delicious'

delicious

Then I read this post and my ideas seemed especially tame... So I visited Save the Words to see what they suggested.

snollygoster

Would this be a good word to use with our current coalition government?

Please imagine

here

who to you embodies a snollygoster.