Sunday 2 July 2017

Cascade


I slept on the sofa last night and, as usual, woke up too early, so spent the next four hours drifting in and out of sleep listening - or half listening - to all four episodes of Wilkie Collin's 'The Woman in White'. I think I know what happened.

I have quite vivid dreams during these times, and a recurring one is where I am in a large house with a very leaky roof during a furious rain storm, and water cascades through the plaster ceiling onto my bed. No prizes for interpreting this one - in fact, no prizes for anything, including my offer in the colourful tourist post. I lied.

I like the word, 'cascade' and I am amazed that it has never (to my knowledge) been used for a fizzy drink. Cascade says it all to a thirsty soda-pop drinker, being evocative on several different levels - 'ade' as in 'lemonade', 'cask' as in a barrel of liquid, and the image of more cool, foaming water than you could possibly drink, tumbling over a picturesque rocky outcrop in a fertile holiday destination. If anyone from Schweppes or Coca Cola is reading this, I hereby claim intellectual property rights to the name.

I just deleted about 500 words on the end of this post, because I think you have read them about 500 times already.

10 comments:

  1. I'm sure that one is supposed to be sympathetic to such people, but in reality they are a pain. I've had similar experiences, and have had to be 'blunt'.

    Now no-one will know what I'm on about.

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    1. They will probably think you are talking to them about me.

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    1. No. I like to change the nocturnal environment every now and then. Anyway, we have our own rooms.

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  3. The Woman in White has one of my favourite literary characters -- Count Fosco. I can imagine it would give you a sleepless night though. We have a very leaky bathroom ceiling at the moment --and lots of rain. Fortunately, most, but not all, of the water is leaking over the bathtub!

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  4. "Cascade" is the name of a dishwasher detergent over here. I have a box of it in my kitchen counter.

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  5. I am just down loading 'The Woman in White' from the bbc player. I love this thing, beats the tv any day.
    Such a coincidence, I also slept on the sofa last night finally getting to sleep at 4 a.m. Seagulls and b***** chimes next door partly contributed to this but who knows what else, spent the time listening to 'Eight months on Ghazza Street' again from the iplayer.

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    1. I love iPlayer, I love the BBC and I love my Bose Bluetooth speakers. I love the Bath Abbey bells, but I hate the inferior bells of St Michael's Without. I also do not like the seagulls...

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