Victorias de Viaje

Chai Boil some water with a chunk of ginger cut in slices, three cardamom pods and a sprinkle of pepper. Add tea, milk and honey. Let it simmer until the kitchen smells right. Drink slowly. ~☆~ Have you watched the latest screen adaptation of Wuthering Heights , starring Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie? Well, if you haven't, it's nothing to write home about -just one of my favourite novels reduced to eroticised melodrama. All those overwhelming extremes in the original that Romantic thinkers associated with the sublime -you know, the unsettling vastness and mystery of things, from the windswept moors to Heathcliff's demonic behaviour and Cathy's supernatural appearance after death- have been translated into sexual spectacle and visual flamboyance on screen. Character development seems to have been buried somewhere beneath the raunchy scenes on the misty moors, the languishing wo...