A Girl With a Sword

seeking adventures

If you ever want to feel like you're going off into fairyland to seek your fortune, and who knows what adventures and castles and dragons await you, walk down a country road in the Cotswolds. The blue hills in the hazy afternoon sun definately set the mood. I think Britomart (of Faerie Queene fame) must have started on her adventure from the Cotswolds. I can just see Britomart on her horse and her nurse, Glauce, on her donkey clomping down the road (it's not a very good horse, probably a grey old mare like the one I passed in a field), through the hills, off to Wales to find Merlin to ask him to solve the puzzle of the magic mirror. Everyone, read The Faerie Queene and start with Book III, if you start with Book I you'll probably just get bogged down, even though it's great too, but Book III is the best.

Then, as I was wandering through a Cotswold village, enjoying the afternoon sun on the picturesque cottages and roses, suddenly The Flaming Lips. It was a beautiful moment. Fight Test was coming from the window of a small, white Volkswagon, floating around The Royal Oak pub and cottages named "Cotswold View" and "Four Ways."