Living in a Fairy-tale
Romanticising Life with Anne of Green Gables
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“The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.”
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
Two wonderful things happened to me this week… I finished Anne of Green Gables for the first time, and I stayed at The Tea Caddy – a whimsical, pretty little fairy cottage in the countryside. These two experiences combined have led me down a romantic, enchanting path of imagination, dreams, and heart.
In this week’s Slow Sunday Letter, I want to deliver you a hefty dose of whimsy, romance and sentiment. Please grab a cuppa, get cosy and let us begin…
Anne of The Tea Caddy
“Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.”
I feel as if I have met a friend for life in Anne. I’ve never fallen in love so quickly with a character. From the first page, she went straight to my heart. My sentiment and love for her grew and grew with each turn of a page. Written by Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables is one of the most cherished books and it is so easy to see why. Montgomery’s love of nature, the beauty in the everyday and the lovely moments of a simple life charge themselves into her words.
When you live in Anne’s world of daydreams and fantasies, the world becomes a wondrous place. This is where I have lived for the past couple of weeks reading with Anne. The stakes rose higher still, when my Husband and I arrived at The Tea Caddy for a holiday in the countryside. We pulled in from the road, and The Tea Caddy stood so delicately in amongst the green. I jumped out of the car and pulled the gate open across the driveway. Looking around, I couldn’t help but feel as if I had stepped foot into a fairy-tale myself.