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box elder: Paris: purple trees
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Wednesday, May 13, 2015. S before, but only really as single specimens, now and then, and of course when they aren't in flower one isn't particularly likely to notice them. The experience of rounding a corner and finding a whole square of trees which appeared to have been painted purple was a new one, which seemed to add a fairy whimsicality to the city. To look at foxglove trees in bloom. Twenty springs is little room. Didn't say, but Haussmann. Work your magic there, bring out the tragedy. Youve do...
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box elder: Snow globe
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Monday, May 11, 2015. Since the end of the 19th century a snow globe with Eiffel Tower is must have souvenir of Paris. However, I did not bring one back. Other encapsulated images I did, and am still sorting them, and learning more about arcades, and cutting grass, and thinking about where to go next. Lucy, is that Capt. Kirk in the blue globe, second row left? Some kitsch is mandatory. I too am curious about the little figures in there with the Eiffel Tower. Clearly, they are larger than life! Lightboxe...
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box elder: November 2014
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Sunday, November 30, 2014. So to round things off, an end-of-the-month collage, on time for once. Breakfast, yoghurt and honey. Actually this isn't particularly seasonal but it's nice. View from the front door early in the month, almost bare branches now. The man cutting the hedges. On the Condor ferry on the way to Jersey, rather too warm Australian Shiraz in plastic glasses, but we were in a holiday mood and didn't mind. Road through the chestnut and beech woods, see yesterday's post. After that was a ...
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box elder: 'From troubles of the world I turn to ducks...'
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Friday, May 01, 2015. From troubles of the world I turn to ducks.'. Well I might well. However, Frank W Harvey. Was a just a bit sentimental; in fact ducks' lives can seem like the troubles of the world in microcosm: precarious, filled with fear and violence not only from predators (he does acknowledge this to a point) but sometimes from each other. Still, let's not dwell on that, they are beautiful comical things too. For which reason people like to feed them, as here at Waltham Abbey:. Yes, they were t...
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box elder: September 2014
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Sunday, September 28, 2014. A splendid afternoon at Quessquitricote. Well, the rest of the holiday pictures are still unedited, it may yet be that they end up in reserve for Nablopomo, and then I had such a wonderful afternoon at Quessquitricote. That I feel I must mention that first. Had casually mentioned she'd got a bit of spare wool if anyone was interested. She proceeded to empty three large bags of the stuff in the middle of the floor. Showed us her finished Ouessant curtain. Ouessant. Then the gre...
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box elder: Paris: The (pipe) dream of reason brings forth monsters...
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Thursday, May 14, 2015. Paris: The (pipe) dream of reason brings forth monsters. Off the beaten track - thatll do. I withdraw my earlier comment. Some of those look like meerschaums. My dad used to smoke one. Just finished answering your last! Actually not of the track at all, but in the arcades around the Palais Royale gardens again, a weird old junk shop that clearly pre-dated the designer boutiques and rarefied galleries and retro toy shops. It seemed to sell almost nothing but pipes! I one smoked a p...
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box elder: December 2014
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Wednesday, December 31, 2014. Books and boots and collages and goodbye 2014. Before any Old Year's Night meditations, I want just to share the delights of my Christmas haul of books and music:. And yes I know I've said more about the boots than the books but I've worn the boots and haven't read the books yet, or only a bit.). And on that note, my final end-of-the-month collage for December, followed by all of them for the year past. I'm pleased I've kept up this practice, albeit erratically, which se...
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box elder: October 2014
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Thursday, October 23, 2014. Woe is me,. A surfeit of quinces. It's that time of year again. Our friends have a quince tree, and Japonica bushes besides. In their early days here they hankered for and planted one of these most beautiful, elegant and archaic of orchard trees, and greeted the first few fruits with delight, but now we are submerged in the things, as well as quince jelly, paste, membrillo. Not very promising, though Nigel Slater did yield a recipe. A few years ago (gosh but it makes me sad go...
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box elder: February 2015
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Monday, February 23, 2015. Knitwear, eyes and thumb-twiddling. Modelling some new knitwear - hope the destined recipient doesn't look at this before it gets there. Me: Alas my love you did not marry a beauty. Tom: Aw, you've got character. Me: Like Peggy the boxer has character? Tom (dreamily): I loved her! Me: And she was told how pretty she was several times every day. We both go into a reverie thinking about this. Sunday, February 15, 2015. Peggy, Milly and Sidney come to visit. Peggy is a boxer.
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box elder: April 2015
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015. Quilts, among other things. Well, I had meant to be around again rather sooner than this, spring weather notwithstanding, but that plan was put at naught by a bout of food poisoning over the weekend which laid us both waste; more violent and total-systems but somewhat shorter-lived in my case, somewhat more limited in its effects but of longer duration in Tom's. Good old-fashioned norovirus. The one immediately above, an African inspired design, in fact one of her least favourite...