laundry and taxes

And what’s the point, the man’s not gonna listen to me. Besides, you know what, he said some things to me that were just so, so… true.

’Heartweary and soul-withered, you come home after years of voluntary banishment: you make a new acquaintance—how or where no matter: you find in this stranger much of the good and bright qualities which you have sought for twenty years, and never before encountered; and they are all fresh, healthy, without soil and without taint. Such society revives, regenerates: you feel better days come back—higher wishes, purer feelings; you desire to recommence your life, and to spend what remains to you of days in a way more worthy of an immortal being. To attain this end, are you justified in overleaping an obstacle of custom—a mere conventional impediment which neither your conscience sanctifies nor your judgment approves?’

It was an evening of grey fog that had crept in from the gulf, swathed the harbor, filled the glens and valleys, and clung heavily to the autumnal meadows. Through it the sea sobbed and shuddered.

period drama + fog/mist

THE SECRET GARDEN (1993)

JANE EYRE (2011)

EMMA. (2020)

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005)

ANNE WITH AN E (2017 - 2019)

THE HANDMAIDEN (2016)

THE WOMAN IN BLACK (2012)

BRIDGERTON (2020 - )

JANE EYRE (2011)