London life

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Thank you Alice for helping us record this! :)

this is me

oh how i ache from my gym session this morning! (I'm going to feel EVEN worse 2mro, if that's possible!) still, what a good hobby to have taken up, even if i do only partake in one session a week, that's better than the nothing i was doing before!
I'm still enjoying the summer holidays, Amy has been staying with us which has been lovely - caught up with manda and sophie too, so bonus! Had one sunny day this week, so sat by the pool- bliss! and went to watch 'Carrie's War' yesterday at the apollo, six of us went and nearly got lost on the underground, it was a really fun day out!
Reading 'Man or Mango?' Which is a VERY odd book about an obsessive compulsive and is therefore mostly filled with lists...incredibly random!
joined 'book crossing' which I've tried to encourage others to join, probably unsuccessfully, but my inner book geek loves it! So far I have only released two books into 'the wild' as I can't really convince myself to part with ones that I really love, but we'll see, if they're successfully found then that'll be great. And, until then I'm going to continue to release books I don't care so much about in order to prove to myself that this can work..... ?!
next - I'm off to make a cup of tea and a plum cake!

love a good giggle with a girl friend!

this is really me...

Listening to (or obsessed by): Acceptance 'So Contagious'

Reading - about to attempt a Jodi Picoult, last chance before I give her up forever (!) also reading 'Sophie's World' (it's perhaps a little too philosophical for me, so i have to read it in short bursts!) and want to start Coetzee's 'Disgrace'.

Thinking about how I very much want to be planning another trip away... I'm thinking road trip! :-)

xox

this is me

Just finished reading 'The Easter Parade' by Richard Yates, author of 'Revolutionary Road'. I really enjoyed and recommend it. Set over four decades in suburban America it is a story about two sisters and the things they leave unsaid and un-done in their lives. I found it really sad as it portrayed, for me, the concept of life as not only ephemeral, but also as an entity which can elude a person if they are not careful...or if they are perhaps too careful trying to be something they are not.

I feel a bit melancholy this evening, and I'm not sure why. It's mum's birthday and we have had a lovely evening at Simply Italian in Rye, but I can't help but feel that perhaps something has made mum feel a little bit sad.. another year has passed her by? something she would have liked to have been given but wasn't? the feeling that perhaps another friend (Karen) has become distanced from her <& has in fact gone from being an OTT friend, to one who only leaves a facebook message - sad times.>? who knows? she'll never say. There are always going to be things you'll never know about your parents, and it probably should be that way, but still...