Ilike this; I'd prefer 'a holiday cottage' to 'some holiday cottage' as you
seem to be describing an actual one. I cant work out the grammatical reason
for this but you are giving the scene outside the holiday cottage so it isnt
'some' cottage. It could even be the holiday cottage, or their holiday
cottage I suppose. I think it has to be a sort of vaguer concept if its
"some" cottage but I cant work it out.
cheers
SallyE
on 20/2/06 4:32 pm, Bob Cooper at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Reeth is a small town in Swaledale, North Yorkshire. Maybe 2 pubs, maybe a
> couple of cafes, maybe a dozen shops, and that's it. But do you need to know
> that? Possibly not.
>
> All comments welcome!
>
> Such Enlightening
>
> New Year’s Eve is a town like Reeth
> where local accents are different
> and in some holiday cottage Co-op carrier bags
> with clinking bottles, bags of pasta, are carried from a car
> that ticks in the damp air, its windows gleaming
> with lights from the Christmas tree on the green.
> Footprints on the moist pavement disappear.
> The door closes shutting out darkness for the evening
> until at midnight so many people, unfamiliar to the place,
> stand outside, glasses in hand, listening to the air
> more than to each other, their breath rising
> to a drunken moon whose light hides many faint stars.
>
> Bob Cooper
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