"I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. That is, my feet are in it; the rest of me is on the draining-board, which I have padded with our dog's blanket and the tea-cosy. I can't say that I am really comfortable, and there is a depressing smell of carbolic soap, but this is the only part of the kitchen where there is any daylight left. And I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring -I wrote my very best poem while sitting on the hen-house. Though even that isn't a very good poem. I have decided my poetry is so bad that I mustn't write any more of it."
The openning lines of
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith. One of the best first passages of all time.
Kitchen sinks and soap. My mother used to wash the twins in the kitchen sink.
In other news;
fetch-light - a name for the 'corpse candle' supposed to be seen before a person's death travelling from his house to his grave.
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