Your pictures make me weep. Do you know how high the snowbanks are here? I don't know why seafood is warm, but it is.

As for the Dodie Smith, I didn't actually get out the Castle book, just the Moon one. Sadly, although you recommend it, I think any interest in eloquent yearning is outdone by the overwrought-ness of what I did read. But if I run across Castle in a bookstore or something, I will flip to the end :)