Frizz

We won – we went to the council meeting this evening and all eleven councillors voted against the application our neighbours had put in. It was simply amazing. I wanted to go and shake the hand of every single one of them.

the Henri Rousseau exhibition at Tate Modern, wonderfully curated it includes a room where you can watch old films of Paris, see photographs and pictures from the world exhibition for which the Eiffel Tower was built, really informative it puts his work into the context of the time. Amazingly, he was completely self taught, even though he painted jungle scenes he never travelled outside of France, instead he got his inspiration from the stuffed animals at the Natural History Museum and the exotic plants at the Botanical Gardens. So, very much the Victorian and bearing that in mind, he would never have seen the animals he painted in motion, experienced their gracefulness and perhaps that explains their two dimensional quality in his paintings. Go see… it’s on until the 5th Feb. Thank you Amos for telling me about it.

Am writing this on the train on the way to the Tate. Am using the browser on my phone, it’s kinda slow, but i’m amazed it’s working. The train is going at about two miles per hour…don’t like to boast but i’m texting faster…

At last I made it to Mekella’s group, which got me knitting again…. another scarf. I haven’t got very far as I’ve had to unpick it twice already to get what I wanted – pattern and width, but all set now. Met Scarlet (what a great name), who’s just finished her yoga teacher training with a teacher she was raving about and one person who makes yoga mats which sell for £50 +. Both Scarlet and I looked on bemused – who pays that for a bit of carpet underlay? You’d be too scared to sweat!

My mother dragged Simon and I along to one of the local golf clubs – not the “Jewish” one Irene… for drinks with the local friendly estate agent. We sat ourselves down at a table and realised we’d placed ourselves right by the kitchen door – so we got first pick of all the food. We spent most of the night with an acquaintance of my mothers who of course? ended up being Second Generation…she was there with her daughter…who is an alternative therapist I saw for a treatment a few years back… she has lost an amazing amount of weight and I feel terrible because my only comment was “oh my god”, before I realised what I was saying… from her reaction I’m sure she’d had it before. I feel bad.

I think I might end up having a nervous breakdown over the land issue we have going on… it’s not an inheritance you’d wish on your worst enemy – or something like that.