Tag: love
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Tall ships…
Off to Poland in a few days for work and memories of a moonlit night, foxtrotting with a Polish naval officer, came flooding back… a fleeting romance… where is he now I wonder… I still have the letters… It was the 80’s but seemed more like something out of a film from the 30’s or […]
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Zuppa, zuppa, zuppa…
oh so delicious on a winter’s eve… all porcini, pancetta and creamy goodness… with a little warm crusty bread… one of my favourites… shame you can’t smell it… I love to cook. I’ve always loved to cook… I thought I knew how to cook… until I met him… he taught me how to cook, how […]
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Living Daylights…
i turned on the television yesterday while busy pottering, free of thoughts of you for a change, only to see Bond in Vienna… the scene in the giant wheel with the cellist… reminded me of you and how we too once, not so long ago, went round in an old wooden carriage on that very […]
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Ragas at twilight…
And now Ravi Shankar! another great who was at it right up to the end… “The beauty of our music is the ability to improvise endlessly,” he once said, “and that is my forte – I never know what I am going to do in the next two seconds, and that is still a great […]
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Curve-alicious…
Saddened but somehow, oddly, uplifted this week by Oscar Neimeyer’s passing… I seem to be surrounded by death at the moment… 104! and what a legacy… working until almost the end and such fantastic architecture… “When you have a large space to conquer, the curve is the natural solution,” he said. “I once wrote a poem […]