17 Friday Apr 2009
| Who Should Paint You: Pablo Picasso |
 You’re an expressive soul who shows many emotions, with many subtleties Only a master painter could represent your glorious contradictions |
Heh, I like “glorious contradictions”. I’ve certainly heard less flattering terms for that particular trait. I guess I’m not surprised at my outcome … remember The Picassohead Gallery? I wonder who some of the other artists are.
~ swiped from raincoaster ~
16 Thursday Apr 2009
To my surprise and delight National Geographic Intelligent Traveller blog has published my contribution to their I Heart My City series. You just copy & paste their list of questions into an email and return it to them with your responses. Which I did. But it was still very exciting when I saw Marilyn Res’s tweet announcing it yesterday.
My fifteen minutes of fame. 🙂
15 Wednesday Apr 2009
Posted in life stuff, travel
It’s not always as obvious as you might think.
Oh, and west-east is according to the Greenwich Meridian.
North – Thompson, Canada
South – Asilah, Morocco
East – Barcelona, Spain
West – Victoria, BC, Canada
14 Tuesday Apr 2009
So I was just sitting here with Susan (Pip) having a nice lunch and talking over our future plans (and making lists!) when Nog came in with today’s post … and a wee package for me! I read the adorable postcard first that said “Something to protect your little tootsies from the nasty cold floor” … and saw it was from Linda (aka Beatrice). Oh! And I said to Susan that I was sure I’d seen these little slipper sock thingys before and she said – “yep, at Marks & Spencer in Gibraltar”. Ha!
Almost made me cry. Just, you know, the thoughtfulness that someone remembered how the cold floors hurt my bare feet when I first came back from the chemo infusion, and then popped these in the post for me. And they’ve also got the eensy rubber pads on the bottom so I won’t slip around. Well, be assured that I’ll be wearing them a week Thursday, Linda. And thank you so much!
ps. Just finishing the Heal Your Own Back book and will be starting on Stephen Fry tonight.
14 Tuesday Apr 2009
A blog friend of mine recently had to switch to pre-mod on her blog because of an ugly smelly troll who started bothering her, and I quite understood the reasoning behind that. But I’ve come across several other people whose blogs have this set up and I’ve wondered if they’d had problems in the past or were just being extra careful or … ?
The only problem that I have with pre-mod is that you usually don’t get to see what other people have said before you (because their comments are also awaiting moderation) and for me this kind of takes something away from the whole blogging experience, interrupts the flow or something. I often find the comments (and banter between commenters) just as entertaining as the post itself. Also, when you are “commenting blind” there is the risk of writing something that seriously jars with what others have been saying, or you can inadvertently put your foot in it, depending on what was said just before you.
So, two questions.
~ image from 3gatti ~
casa azahar 