On clouds

Sometimes on occasional days when the Cumulus clouds were low on the horizon and the houses in front hid the place where they ended I used to pretend that I lived in a really mountainous place, like the Swiss Alps. I discovered that if you scrinched your eyes a little bit you could make the clouds become mountains and for a little while the place you live in suddenly because hugely exciting. I don't know why mountains made life appear to be so much more exciting. It's not that I ever really had a hankering to be Heidi or anything.

When I was a little girl I used to do this. Sometimes I still do.