poppy

Funny! Would be great to be able to do that 😊 Loved this book. Though not exactly a quote, the title of the book 'The Wind Cannot Read' by Richard Mason is taken from a Japanese poem, "Though on the sign it is written: 'Don't pluck these blossoms'–it is useless against the wind, which cannot read”. It appears in the frontispiece.

Don't Forget Me ~ Joe Cocker

Remember the Days of the Old Schoolyard ~ Cat Stevens

Try to Remember ~ Nana Mouskouri

Machine

There's A Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought Of It Yet ~ Panic! At The Disco

Slow Like Honey ~ Fiona Apple

Moth

tenacious

I played chess when I was young, but was absolutely useless. I'm unable to plan more than two moves ahead, I seem to remember my brother always beating me. I have the same problem with mental arithmetic. I very much enjoyed a recent Netflix series called The Queen's Gambit about a very talented female chess player. Although fictional it was loosely based on the US chessmaster, Bobby Fischer and I believe the games played in the film were genuine.

neuropharmacological

it

Slow Rivers ~ Elton John (Elton said at an Australian concert that this song reminded him of NZ. I don't think he meant it as a compliment 🤣) We won't hold it against you, Muggle 😉 After all, you were the game's original originator 😊

itty

tommyrot

combobulate

splendiferous

I enjoyed his Pallisers novels many years ago.

Scrappy

Hope you haven't been badly affected by the hurricane, Virginia, and you're staying safe. The devastation in Florida is horrifying.

Cockadoodle

Poodle

Exciting! Will you be able to follow it as it happens?

anecdote

I haven't read this Sayers novel but very much enjoyed her later ones. Loved the reasons she gave for Wimsey being rich. I don't remember the anti-Semitism in her books but it certainly grates when you come across it. I gave up on an Edith Wharton novel because it was just so marked.