Nuit blanche
Going onto Twitter gave me some photos I had never wanted to see. 5 year old children in clear water, over smooth looking sand, a foot deep.
This morning I sat with an acquaintance and we said 'Palmyra' to each other.
Things aren't all bad - I introduced my younger son to his little cousin in Oxford today. She had made ice cream mice for us. The little ears were pine nuts and the beady eyes were chopped up bits of raisin.
She read out the first page and a half of The Railway Children to us. She has the advantage of speaking English fluently. Some wonderful guesses at pronunciation. I hope I can make someone giggle with my Arabic one day.
We compared the sizes of our feet after I said hallo to her with my left one while she was lurking behind her mother :) It's so, so lovely to be able to relax totally with my beautiful family.
Friday was a wonderful day too, T and I spent hours talking in and around the small room he has and the furniture in it. Eventually he had a brain wave while we walked to get food and we had further strokes of luck in a furniture shop and in a mini industrial estate when I needed a delivery driver.
To top it off we made an unplanned family visit and were welcomed so warmly, taking a photo to celebrate. So that was my Friday Evening for this week :)
Showing posts with label Friday Evenings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Friday Evenings. Show all posts
Sunday, 30 August 2015
Sunday, 23 August 2015
Still poetried-out
but getting interesting flashes or revelations. Not in a religious cave type way, but in a connecting my dots helpful way.
so
... continue with doing pairs of poems while half ignoring the Proms
... go on more rainy walks, as long as I have one pair of dry shoes/boots I can go out there
... try doing a series on my most touchy and difficult subject. Well, which one? I must have half a dozen 'don't go there' subjects
... continue with my Friday Evenings, I have wanted to do this for absolute years, I needed a certain question a while back to help me realise this
... live in the now, ie replace light bulbs and go to Sainsburys to buy more light bulbs and bleach
... raise my eyes in astonishment at the fact that I am able to read the second piece in an Arabic text book from the 80's a neighbour has lent me for 2 years so far!, it has all sorts of combinations of letters which have foxed me in my other books, but this one has explanations :)
I was about to return it to her unread, but decided to give it one last chance. Since I couldn't follow the first piece, I tried the second one and it was so much clearer. Never be surprised by anything when learning/forgeting a language. There is more forgetting than remembering, that's my tip to everyone. How many rivulets of rain are needed to create a dip and then a tiny river? Lots.
so
... continue with doing pairs of poems while half ignoring the Proms
... go on more rainy walks, as long as I have one pair of dry shoes/boots I can go out there
... try doing a series on my most touchy and difficult subject. Well, which one? I must have half a dozen 'don't go there' subjects
... continue with my Friday Evenings, I have wanted to do this for absolute years, I needed a certain question a while back to help me realise this
... live in the now, ie replace light bulbs and go to Sainsburys to buy more light bulbs and bleach
... raise my eyes in astonishment at the fact that I am able to read the second piece in an Arabic text book from the 80's a neighbour has lent me for 2 years so far!, it has all sorts of combinations of letters which have foxed me in my other books, but this one has explanations :)
I was about to return it to her unread, but decided to give it one last chance. Since I couldn't follow the first piece, I tried the second one and it was so much clearer. Never be surprised by anything when learning/forgeting a language. There is more forgetting than remembering, that's my tip to everyone. How many rivulets of rain are needed to create a dip and then a tiny river? Lots.
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