You can get there from here – in fact 'here' is the only place you can get there from.

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I am talking to myself, really, Anna. I woke up this morning and looked around my room, and I thought: Well, this is where I am. And to go anywhere, here is where I must start from.

And then I remembered Spike Milligan’s words: Everybody’s got to be somewhere. And I thought of Purple Cow, waking up in Athens, and R.J. Adams, waking up in Decatur, and Liz and Liya Lolita, and Propoquerian and all the other bloggers, waking up wherever they wake up. And last – but by no means least – I thought of you, my Anna, waking up in a house in Purley.

But not only do we all wake up in our own physical space, we also wake in our own mental space: where we are in our own heads. And no one can know that place – only ourselves. And that is also where we have to start from. (I know, Anna, that, as a student of English, you will be aware that I keep ending a sentence with a preposition - but see below*)



There is much I would like to say, about you and Brian, and your intending nuptials. But you, too, have to start from where you are – physically and mentally – and only you know that. So I will shut up (which is not like me, as you know!)

But I really cannot leave it at that. So I will, instead, draw your attention to Purple Cow’s comment!

Your ever-loving, non-advising but extremely marriage-shy

George

*Winston Churchill once had a draft speech returned to him by one of his aides, respectfully pointing out that the Prime Minister had ended a sentence with a preposition. Within the hour the speech was back on the civil servant’s desk with a note from Winston: This is the kind of bureaucratic interference up with which I will not put.


I also like this 'bedtime story'

Little girl: Mummy, I want to be read to.
Mummy: Which book do you want to be read to from?
Little girl: Alice in Wonderland.
Mummy: Oh. What did you chose that book to be read to from for?