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nam alii oc, alii si, alii vero dicunt oil
some say oc, others say si, others say oïl ( I say pot-ay-toes - and some still say french fries ...)
The tidal flow of our summer season has crept up on me and time at the pixel-face has ebbed to an all-time low. (Excuse for not posting No. 1)
My Mary has just had her first show in a serious gallery in France (Excuse No.2)
'Eet eez ze laziness'. ( ( Read more... ) -
Love, Madness and Salt
movicon? : images I put together with a Manu Chao song
I realised - with a jolt - that nearly three weeks have gone by without a journal entry. However, I also note that others within my ken have been equally lax. So : no guilt, and no gloat. Eet ees jus' ze laziness.
The weather has been praeternaturally fine all this while, and there's been more ( Read more... ) -
une soirée musicale-apéro-dinatoire/early drinking with music and food
Something of the spirit of ' 68 inhabits Domaine Isabelle. When we first came to the village we'd pass Charles & Isabelle's house on the main street and wonder who might be the owners of the stacked bookshelves and the sculptures, who was it within who liked their jazz to flow, of a warm evening, out through the open window. We didn't have to wait ( Read more... ) -
the artist and the dilettante
We're just back from having an evening out - in Andorra. We were invited by Sue & Steve the only other English - well, Yorkshire, which is nearly the same thing, I can understand most of what they're saying - people who live in the village. He's setting up a broadband consultancy there - which means an appartment & an office & visits from us & huge ( Read more... ) -
leisured enebriation
There are some who ask themselves : what does he do all day? Apart, that is, from wandering around his decrepid village - drink in one hand, camera in the other - accosting senile villagers in an attempt to get the latest gossip about people dead a century before ( Read more... )