Katrice’s Reviews > The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes From a Small Island > Status Update

This was the English at theirbesr -- like the England that used to exist everywhere, in which you considered the needs of others along with your own on the assumption thwt they would do likewise with you.

Nothing -- and I mean, really, absolutely nothing -- is more extraordinary in Britain than the beauty of the countryside. Nowehere in the world is there a landscape that has been more intensively utilized -- more mined, farmed, quarried, covered with cities and changing factories, threaded with motorways and railway lines -- and yet remains so comprehensively and reliably lovely over most of its extent.

The positive of thinking you are about to die is that it does make you glad of the little life left to you.

One of the things that happens when you get older is that you discover losts of new ways to hurt yourself.