I am working hard to turn my working man's terraced hovel into a highly desirable urban mews cottage by hanging baskets of flowers all over the back yard. It improves the view from the kitchen window too. It has been so hot today that i have sat out in the yard and Seratus dan Satu Cerita dari Nusantara (I have made the title a link to a web page of Indonesian folk stories.) They are moral tales all, warning children of the awful consequences that we come from disrespecting their parents or being too sombong (proud). That's the book on my chair.
Tomorrow Liz is giving me a lift to London to see a performance of The Master and Margarita an old favourite of mine. Otherwise I am sticking flowers into pots when not filling in forms related to my search for work.
Tomorrow Liz is giving me a lift to London to see a performance of The Master and Margarita an old favourite of mine. Otherwise I am sticking flowers into pots when not filling in forms related to my search for work.
I am rather disappointed that no one has found me a log yet. The situation is becoming a little desperate.
Botanical clarification.
I wrote a poem earlier about wealthy people, probably from London, buying country houses and enjoying this early Spring before city dwellers like me and ended it by mentioning the scent of hawthorn. I had seen some blossom that week end and thought it was hawthorn but decided it must have been blackthorn, as I think that is usually a little earlier, but wrote hawthorn anyway. It seems I was not mistaken and hawthorn is particularly early this year, so I let it stand.
It just goes to show what you can do if you have the money.
Botanical clarification.
I wrote a poem earlier about wealthy people, probably from London, buying country houses and enjoying this early Spring before city dwellers like me and ended it by mentioning the scent of hawthorn. I had seen some blossom that week end and thought it was hawthorn but decided it must have been blackthorn, as I think that is usually a little earlier, but wrote hawthorn anyway. It seems I was not mistaken and hawthorn is particularly early this year, so I let it stand.
It just goes to show what you can do if you have the money.