Blown away
Apr. 3rd, 2008 01:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todayiamadaisyAfter rashly opining (apropos Earth Hour) that dining by candlelight was quite nice, I was forced to do just that again last night when the power went off. It turns out that dining by candlelight is slightly less nice when you're listening to unprecedented cyclone-force winds outside.
I went outside this morning and thought that the world - well, the garden at least - seemed unexpectedly greener than normal... and then I realised I was looking at the neighbours' lawn rather than my back fence. On the whole, though, now that it's abated somewhat, I think losing one evening's electricity and one already dodgy paling fence means I escaped the Big Wind quite lightly.
When the electricity came back on last night, I watched Dragonwyck and I must urge everyone to do the same. It's awesomely preposterous in the way that only black and white films from 1946 can be. It's not quite as brilliant as The Wicked Lady (1945), in which a noblewoman secretly takes up highway robbery; but it does have a scene in which Vincent Price announces, "I have become... a Drug Addict!", and that counts for a lot.
I went outside this morning and thought that the world - well, the garden at least - seemed unexpectedly greener than normal... and then I realised I was looking at the neighbours' lawn rather than my back fence. On the whole, though, now that it's abated somewhat, I think losing one evening's electricity and one already dodgy paling fence means I escaped the Big Wind quite lightly.
When the electricity came back on last night, I watched Dragonwyck and I must urge everyone to do the same. It's awesomely preposterous in the way that only black and white films from 1946 can be. It's not quite as brilliant as The Wicked Lady (1945), in which a noblewoman secretly takes up highway robbery; but it does have a scene in which Vincent Price announces, "I have become... a Drug Addict!", and that counts for a lot.