A thatched cottage on the green, Hollowmere
Cottage Garden, Helen Allingham, 1894. Public domain. Not a picture of Mere Cottage: its own painting is still to come.
Mere
Cottage
A thatched cottage on the green with one good chair, set at the proper distance from the fire. Somebody has left a book open on its arm.
Rain on thatch is not like rain on slate. There is no drumming. The roof takes it in, and what reaches you is a soft, close hush with the wind moving about on top of it.
The kettle has not long boiled. The clock on the mantel is slow and nobody has corrected it. From the window you can see across the green to the inn, and to one other lit window that is always lit and that nobody mentions.
- Roof
- Thatch
- Best in
- October, with a wind
- Chair
- One, by the fire
- View
- Across the green to the inn
Listen in
Steady rain on the village green, heard from indoors.
This hour at The Kettle & Rain is not yet sponsored. Put your name over the door.