Tag Archives: love

Leaning out…

Posted on April 10, 2013 by

Can I really be interested in someone who declares themselves a Thatcher fan? Although I’m pretty sure my parents were more liberal or left leaning and didn’t vote ‘conservative’ or ‘republican’, I did grow up in a fairly capitalist leaning … Continue reading →

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Tall ships…

Posted on January 16, 2013 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Zuppa, zuppa, zuppa…

Posted on December 17, 2012 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Living Daylights…

Posted on December 16, 2012 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Ragas at twilight…

Posted on December 13, 2012 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Curve-alicious…

Posted on December 11, 2012 by

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 … Continue reading →

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