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. The story is full of overwhelming extremes associated with the sublime. For example, it is set in the unsettling vastness of windswept moors, and the characters have extraordinary experiences of awe and terror that go beyond human measurement, like Heathcliff's demonic behaviour and Cathy's supernatural appearance after death. What I take issue with is that all of this has been translated into sexual spectacle and visual flamboyance on screen. Character develop...