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[bohofaery]

I'm interminably restless, but it's a futile kind of energy, not enough to put to any good use. Like I'm waiting for life to start again, and passing from moment to moment in the meantime, seizing upon any little thing that I find beautiful just to have something to concentrate on. I'm so dreadfully unfocussed my attention span is even shorter than

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[blacksweater]

A camp plant called Julian- how wonderful! I now feel guilty for leaving all my plants in a neuter and unnamed state. He is very pretty, by the way.

[bohofaery]

He is indeed pretty ... unfortunately, he knows it. Smug little git. Maybe he's deciduous and will be bald all winter - that'd be amusing. Ah well. He's adorable and I could forgive him anything (especially since he is, after all, not exactly sentient...)

Nah. I don't normally ascribe names or personalities to my houseplants - it's just that Julian is a tree, not a normal plant, and rather special. Besides which I'm not allowed to have any pets in halls and I wanted someone to keep me company, and look disapproving when I smoke, and things. Knowing me I'll absent-mindedly feed him on vodka and coffee and he'll die young of a caffeine-induced heart attack.

xx

[winterhaze]

Cambridge in the autumn & winter is perfect!
There were so many nights last year when I would go out and walk for hours & the city would be shrouded in a fabulous mist & those are some of my favourite memories. It snowed here the year before last & that was gorgeous, too :>
take care miss
xoxo

[bohofaery]

I absolutely adore winter - there's a certain quality of light you only ever get on still winter mornings, all pale and crisp, and it's just as if beauty didn't exist until that moment. I can imagine Cambridge is perfectly suited to it - although not so much as Oxford, perhaps, because it's sort of bleaker, without that cosy city feel.

Are you staying this autumn, or are you really going to leave? It'd be a shame if you did - we could have met for coffee sometime, maybe.

xx