Category Archives: friends

summer stuff

28 Thursday Jun 2007

Posted by in culture, friends, fun stuff, holidays, life stuff, trips

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sun1.gif           So what are you doing this summer?

Now that summer is officially here (yes, I know I’m a few days late). Any trips planned? Special events or projects?

My ‘summer holiday’ was Lisbon … don’t think Nog and I will be travelling anywhere else for awhile, though we might take a day trip or two between now and September.

I’m planning to take advantage of there being next to nobody at the gym so I can use the fitness room as much as I want to in the mornings. I also want to do some sewing and think about a silk collection for the clothing biz. Otherwise and that, I want to read a lot and go out more at night when it’s coolish. Oh, and also paint the hallways … the whole flat could do with repainting but the hallways are especially needy.

Since I’ll have next to no work (and next to no income) it’ll be all about how to best spend my time without spending money, and feeling rested and satisfied when the ‘new year’ rolls round again. And so I’m looking for a little inspiration.

happy birthday to Nog!

02 Friday Mar 2007

Posted by in birthdays, friends, life stuff, love

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A poem for the love of my life on his birthday…

My Love
Your skin glows like the banana, blossoms shiny as the gardenia in the purest hope of spring.
My heart follows your guitar voice and leaps like a coyote at the whisper of your name.
The evening floats in on a great swallow wing.
I am comforted by your jumper that I carry into the twilight of sculpturebeams and hold next to my thigh.
I am filled with hope that I may dry your tears of water.
As my bottom falls from my sock, it reminds me of your window.
In the quiet, I listen for the last music of the day.
My heated breast leaps to my overcoat. I wait in the moonlight for your secret sky so that we may warble as one, breast to breast, in search of the magnificient blue and mystical ship of love.

Happy Birthday honey! f_bubbly.gif

Many thanks to Archie and the Love Poems Generator. f_love.gif

gossip

09 Saturday Sep 2006

Posted by in friends, life stuff, media

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How do you deal with it?

Do you get hurt and angry and seek revenge and/or restitution?

Do you agree with Oscar Wilde who once said, “The only thing worse in the world than being talked about is not being talked about” ?

Or do you just ignore it?

Also, there seems quite a difference between gossip spread amongst a handful of friends or work colleagues and blabbing stuff all over internet forums. I mean, aside from the first being called slander and the second libel 😉

And where does one draw the fine lines between exchanging information, gossiping and rumour-mongering?

serigraph serendipity

01 Saturday Jul 2006

Posted by in art, food & drink, friends, photos, sevilla

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It was a magical evening.

Our friend Craig (aka zoomer) from Vancouver is visiting and we are having the loveliest time. Far too much eating and drinking going on, but what the hell – one week is one week. We are also going to Gibraltar on Monday, which for Craig will fulfill a long time desire and which will allow me to pick up some knickers at Marks & Spencer. 🙂

Last night we went out to the oldest bar in Sevilla, which dates back to 1670. On the way we passed a very small but well-lit workshop and I wondered aloud what it might be. Nog thought it might be a butcher’s, Craig thought he saw some sort of pastry rolling machine, but we only caught a glimpse of it as we walked past and then went on talking about other things.

And then we had a wonderful time at El Rinconcillo. Fabulous tapas, good beer and wine, wonderful ‘ambientation’ … so it was quite some time before we decided to lurch home again. And we saw that the workshop was still open even though it was almost midnight. But this time when we walked past my curiousity got the better of me and I popped my head inside the open door and said – ‘hey, what are you guys doing here?’. And the younger of the two men looked up from his work, smiled and said – ‘we’re here having fun.’ And then he invited us in to have a look around.

Turned out he was running a printing press and he showed us a small sepia print of one of his drawings ‘hot off the press’. It was gorgeous. And then he showed us more of his work and Craig decided to buy one of his smaller prints, signed and numbered – the small pic shown here (a view of the Giralda from my street!) – as a gift to take home to his daughter.

His website Norler is still ‘under construction’ but the catalogue bit is working.

Apparently Norberto also sells his art in the street but somehow, coming across him by chance as we did, hard at work in his studio on a hot summer Friday night, made the experience feel a bit magical and serendipitous.

A few days later we found Norberto at his usual spot next to the cathedral. You can click on the pictures to see a larger image.

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