Cosy

by C. Margery Kempe

The chilly weather has come to Galway. I had to turn on the heat last night while I worked away at my kitchen table. I don't mind. I prefer autumn and spring to summer and winter, a little chill just means it's better weather for cosying up. I'm finding that a very appealing image just now: a fire place, a comfy sofa, hot chocolate and nowhere else to have to be. Sounds awfully nice.

There's a great passage from Kenneth Graham's The Wind in the Willows that captures this feeling well:

"When the girl returned, some hours later, she carried a tray, with a cup of fragrant tea steaming on it; and a plate piled up with very hot buttered toast, cut thick, very brown on both sides, with the butter running through the holes in great golden drops, like honey from the honeycomb. The smell of that buttered toast simply talked to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty mornings, of cosy parlour firesides on winter evenings, when one's ramble was over and slippered feet were propped on the fender, of the purring of contented cats, and the twitter of sleepy canaries."

I got out my red wool hooded cape today, changing from my lighter black and white magpie wrap. A sure sign of the changing seasons. I love my red riding hood! Of course it means I have to keep a weather eye out for big bad wolves, but I think I may already have one and he looks friendly enough. And apparently he's very fond of cosying up, so things look good.

I'm off in London again this weekend; one of my favourite cities in the world. It's the setting for a good number of my stories: Chastity Flame lives on Tavistock Square in Bloomsbury (where I'll be seeing Alan Moore perform Friday night with a Scottish singer MacGillivray) and Love Me Like a Reptile takes place at a pub down near the Embankment. Hmmm: wonder how long before I start setting stories in Scotland? I'm off to Dundee in three weeks — looking forward to it! Here's a little song for cosying up to someone sweet.

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