puddles;

[luminette]

i'm getting used to splashy days again, but rain in this city is duller; less lush than exeter rainstorms. i showered during an exeter rainstorm on saturday; bathroom window open, clouds darkening the sky. and then, as saturday and sunday blurred into an indiscriminate sleeplessness, i lit sparklers in a bus-shelter, staring at the puddles

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[libellum]

Splashy days are something I'll always associate with you. And I know what you mean about trains, I think. Perhaps that's why I love them so much - it's a speed you aren't aware of, an hurtling along that's almost tranquil, like the turning of the earth.

[luminette]

that's such a lovely thing to say.

i totally agree re. train travel. also, don't you think there's a kind of divine detachment about it? you're so set apart and silent that you almost feel like a little god.

or perhaps i catch too many 6am trains!

x

[ex_bloodoran155]

i definitely need educating with regard to sparklers.

perhaps you could combat your exeter withdrawal by running round shouting about fat bears?

xxx

[luminette]

i have been!
for i am ze fattest of ze bearrrrs!

remind me; i'll buy a lot of sparklers for my next visit. random night + sparklers! and probably some stuffing. she says, with a sense of numbing inevitability.

oh yes. i can't wait. i haven't even unpacked yet but i'm mentally packing my suitcase.

i really miss you, anne. xxxxx

[ex_bloodoran155]

no, steve is the fattest of ze bearrrs. with stuffing.

i sent him and spiller text messages earlier saying "stuffing stuffing stuffing you love it stuffing stuffing stuffing stuffing"

to which steve replied: "remorse."

i miss you terribly and horribly. xxxx

[luminette]

god yes. remorse! oh my, it's starting to sound throwaway but i miss you all such a lot.

am tempted to somewhere track down a fat bear and bring him down to sit in your kitchen. he can sit next to the stuffing.

oh, i am so glad that i'm coming down again. i'm certain i'll just end up coming down far too much and making you all so completely sick of me.

miaow!

xx

[luminette]

i don't think that i could be without exeter to escape to. i miss it more than most things.

you're a definite thunderstorm person. remember that time in year 11 when we had that thunderstorm in last period french? (it was a thursday, i think)

and we ran for the bus in the rain.

x