dinner
October 21, 2009
- My friends Franck and Lise came for dinner last week - I've either been cooking dinner or eating out every night so I've had no time to blog - with this bag full of goodies from their garden in Champagne. There were fresh walnuts and, individually wrapped in newspaper, my favourite - quinces. They were beautiful, leaves still attached and now the whole apartment is filled with ...
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October 10, 2009
- I think what nice clouds Paris has! What a nice sky, always changing! Plump white clouds, tumbling in the machine. And grey ones, like the pigeons who make nests with strands of construction site metal in the flowerpot on my back porch. White eyelet over blue silk: a lingerie sky. Walking up the four flights of stairs to my apartment I pause at each landing and think what nice dinners ...
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July 8, 2009
- Another good episode of Torchwood yesterday, though not quite as hot and on-the-edge as the first episode, I think. It’s also strange how Jack and Ianto seem to blow hot and cold, and there’s very little consistency in it. In Episode One they appeared to be a normal couple (well, relatively normal, bearing in mind Jack isn’t entirely human …), yet in Episode Two when Jack dies several ...
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April 15, 2009
- Something of a social whirl day today, so I got up early and got down to getting another 1000 words of Hallsfoot's Battle into the pot. Which meant actually starting the big battle scenes, which I suspect will go on for some time and have a variety of different viewpoints in them. So that brings me safely into the 108,000 word range. I'm still a tad (well, more than a tad) worried about whether ...
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April 9, 2009
- Special time of day. Nettle tea brews in a blue teacup to my right. Dog snoozes on the wooden bench to my left. Laptop on kitchen table before me, perfectly centered, promising the decadent possiblility of words to come. Comforting sound of dishwasher droning and grinding behind me. Another day nearing the end. And what of it? All that running around and the making of phone calls and the words ...
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March 27, 2009
- Plunged this morning with a merry wave and gay abandon into creating my article about writing sex. My, what fun. Almost as good as ... um ... actually writing it. As it were. It's a little longer than anticipated (much the best way, in my opinion, ho ho), but I've submitted it anyway and the Strictly Writing Webzine have accepted it for publication in May, hurrah! Instant satisfaction and ...
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February 18, 2009
- A slight relapse on the health front this morning, I fear - my nose has a mind of its own, alas (and how I've always wanted to use "alas" in a blog, so that's hugely cheering ...). And I feel as if my head is full of mud. Could I have caught the cold a second time from Lord H - who is now feeling better? An image of the future stretches ahead in which the cold becomes something that ...
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February 10, 2009
- First off, here’s this morning’s meditation, which is possibly the one moment of calm I will get today:Meditation 69Before us liesa rich and fertile landbut the way is barredby regulationsso intricateit is impossibleto keep them.Easier to fallinto the sea’s warm beckoning,let its salt embracecover your dreams.I’ve spent the whole morning typing up a series of rather intricate corrections ...
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January 17, 2009
- Up at the ungodly hour of 4.15am today. Ye gods and little fishes indeed. I had to be up then as - whatever I do - it always takes me at least an hour and a half to leave the house, and we had to set off at 5.45am in order to get to the Wake up to Waterfowl event at Pulborough Brooks. My, but we know how to live here in the shires ...Anyway, it was fantastic. We watched the sun come up over the ...
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November 13, 2008
- WHEN I WAS A KID - Seven Thanksgiving made a special impression on me when I was a kid. Two separate Thanksgiving experiences in my life were pivotal. Experiences that, in very important ways, changed me forever. THE THANKSGIVING POEMWhat I learned about school is important, and I finally learned it in fifth grade. It took me that long because, when I was a kid, I thought that adults were ...
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