Your grand-mothers! One admitted with pneumonia at nearly 85, the other one had a carotid artery operation at 75. Both were out of hospital within 48 hours. -- I fear they threw away those moulds!!
Yesterday, the dining table was empty; today it’s covered in books:
Madhur Jaffrey’s Ultimate Curry Bible, Vladimir Nabokov’s Lectures on Don Quixote, Carol Ann Duffy’s Selected Poems, F.G. Klopstock’s Oden, Heinrich von Kleist’s Pentheselia, Friedrich Hebbels’s Judith, The 200 best novels in English since 1950 by Carmen Calil & Colm Toibin, Tom Sharpe’s Ancestral Vices, E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Lebensansichten des Katers Murr, John Updike, Pigeon’s Feathers and other stories, GEO Special: Baltikum, The Brotherhood, Ernst Bloch, Widerstand und Friede, Bertolt Brecht, Die Dreigroschenoper, Gottfried von Keller, Der Landvogt von Greifensee.
I was looking for Birdsong - alI I found was the book of the Millais exhibition, and the masterpieces of the Rijksmuseum, they made your Dad’s day.
What connects an oak tree, Che Guevara, Paco Rabanne and the footballer Lizarazu? Basque – the country, the language.
You weren’t thinking lingerie, were you??!!
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what a cultured selection! have almost finished down and out in paris and london. is the PERFECT companion. it seems the etiquette and politics of kitchen portering have not changed in 100 years. everything in it is just spot on and asside from the introduction of squats, my journal at the moment is very similar, hehehe.
ReplyDeletemuch love, Dom x x x x x x x
Glad you're keeping a journal, and not all that surprised that the politics of portering are still the same.
ReplyDeleteLove you, too