A contemplative Friday Five

[brutti_ma_buoni]

It's being a quiet weekend, which is good. Apart from the builders downstairs, who are far too much of my social life downstairs. They are being pretty conscientious and certainly not deliberately loud, but there’s shedloads of demolition and it has been such a pain to live through. I did yoga at home this morning with Very Loud Soothing Music on,

Comments

[thismaz]

I envy you your facility with languages... but not enough to put the effort in to learning another one myself *g*

You could always get off and walk your bike across the dangerous intersections? I used to do that at a big roundabout just south of Wandsworth Bridge, when I used to commute into London. That particular roundabout though...? No way was I cycling through that.

[kazzy_cee]

I can ride a bike but I’d really not want to ride one on the suburban roads! So dangerous. I’ve often been tempted to go to Center Parcs and hire a bike just to see if I could still do it.

I think languages sink into your brain and it just takes total immersion in them again to bring the up to the surface. I was astounded how much French I remembered the last time we went to France.