It's not particularly pretty either, but the drive between Rhinebeck and Hyde Park is lovely, going past woods, farmland and elegant old houses.
"It's lovely going into the town, popping in to buy a paper, chatting with people but nobody bothering you, and though I want to travel when my career is over, I know where my roots are and where my home is".
"She crosses my mind like a spring cardinal," O'Rourke, a poet and cultural critic, writes of her mother, who died in 2008, at 55. "Startling, luminous, lovely, gone".
'She said, "Why don't you just go to Paris, it would be so lovely, go and sit down by the Seine, have a glass of champagne and look through the papers".
Earlier, before the screening, Thompson – hair afro, often with a bow, sometimes with a "twist-out" or, if it's winter, braids because the cold weather isn't good for it – tells me a story that reveals Dark & Lovely goes back much further for her than the time she gave her hair the big chop at 16. "I was once in a relationship with a man who had a daughter who was four years old," she says.
And he has now written not one, not two, but three novels in which quiet manly heroes stroll through life to a chorus of long-limbed lovelies going 'phwoar! Look at that sex god with the secateurs!' The eponymous hero of his first novel, Mr MacGregor, was 'a man whose looks and build would have been perfectly at home modelling rugged outdoor wear in a Racing Green catalogue.' See?
They look lovely Go on, let your accessories steal the show RT @OscarPRGirl overheard in the studio: "you don't know where my maharaja jewels book is, do you?" Weather writers use the funnest words: unleash, fury, colossal, destructive, bitter, threaten.... Today wearing Love, Chloe — it's a dusty, buttery, rosy bit of deliciousness.
"Majella was a lovely child, going about her life in childlike ways and not feeling threatened at all.
"It's been great, it's been lovely just going about doing my business without the madness of last year," he said.
Long before Apple came along and released iOS 4 and its slide out multitasking/app switching, a lovely lad going by the name of chpwn had already hacked together an (arguably better) solution, which he dubbed ProSwitcher.
Even just saying something like "Wow, that really was lovely" is going to be a huge compliment, especially if the chef is your date.
