despite what you people see of me (i don't really know what you think of me but i get the general idea that i'm unconventional and perhaps in some ways "strange" or even "perverse" for want of a better word), i'm actually very old-fashioned. Liberal in thought, Conservative in action.
anyway my main point is that i don't like living in the present. i'd very much love to live during the Regency era. it's a much simpler time, devoid of the decadence of the Rococo and the general prissiness of the Victorian/Edwardian eras. yes, you would say i read too much Jane Austen, but it's not merely my admiration for balls and seasons in London and afternoon tea or my general love for plotlines that go along the lines of "'I love her but she must never know/I love him but he must never know'..........then they both find out and live happily ever after." it's also how ladies behaved like ladies, gentlemen behaved like gentlemen, but without the ridiculous rules imposed during the Victorian times.
not to mention i absolutely love the fashion for this era. the bonnets, spencers, pelisses etc etc.
and with people travelling on horsebacks or carriages or phaetons, air would've been so much fresher.
call me an escapist or idealist, but one day when i have swindled enough money i'll buy a nice cottage in the English countryside, with some acres of land, furnish it in the Regency style, raise a couple of horses or two and live there in my own little Barton Cottage or (if i managed to swindle a couple of millions) Pemberley without anyone in jeans or slutwear to ruin my sweet sweet home.
and i'm quite content to live there as a spinster cat lady, but i wouldn't mind having a Mr. Darcy, Mr. Knightley or Colonel Brandon.
in other news, i managed to construct a straw bonnet! now i just have to buy trim for it, and some lovely fabric for a new gown. ahhh i'm so short of $$$. time to swindle!
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