...why, what are those creatures, making honey down there? They ca'n't be bees--nobody ever saw bees a mile off, you know--" and for some time she stood silent, watching one of them that was bustling among the flowers, poking its proboscis into them "just as if it was a regular bee," thought Alice.
However, this was anything but a regular bee: in fact, it was an elephant--as Alice soon found out, though the idea quite took her breath away at first. "And what enormous flowers they must be!" was her next idea. "Something like cottages with the roofs taken off, and stalks put to them--and what quantities of honey they must make! I think I'll go down and--no, I won't go just yet," she went on, checking herself as she was just beginning to run down the hill, and trying to find some excuse for turning shy so suddenly." It'll never do to go down among them without a good long branch to brush them away--and what fun it'll be when they ask me how I liked my walk. I shall say, "Oh, I liked it well enough--" (here came the favourite little toss of the head), "only it was so dusty and hot and the elephants did tease so!"
Lewis Carroll, from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872
3 maids a-milking:
what quantities of honey they must make INDEED.
happy birthday, my dear beautiful one. i hope it was MAGICAL.
a bit hectic over here gearing up for a show, but when the calm settles over once again i would very much love a date (i am in possession of some ground chicory from n'orleans for a special springthyme iced coffee which you MUST be in receipt of very soon, in my kitchen, pronto...). HUGS. xoxoxo
i don't go anywhere without a good long branch, really.
i forgot to feed you homemade rocky road ice cream before the end of the party the other night; will have to make another batch and remedy that soon.
This blog is so wonderful! It's so different to everything else. I think I'm going to be returning regularly :)
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