Frizz

Tried to capture the amazing sky this evening, frustratingly though I only had my mobile with me - isn’t it always the way.

It was so clear during the day that when I was on the train I could see about six planes at once, they looked both graceful and like they were far too close to each other, just perspective of course, but did make me wonder.

The Cherry Blossom tree is looking beautiful.  So exciting, it’s my first tree.  We planted it just before last years heat wave and I feared it hadn’t survived, but as you can see I needn’t have worried.

The next Global Day for Darfur is the 29th April - there’s a march in central London organized by Amnesty.  If there’s something going on in your city you could add it to the comments.

Have been having a go at using the Orton effect - not sure I actually like it, but interesting to experiment. The original photo is here.  What do you think? Took the photo at the weekend during a lovely day at the seaside, enjoying the blissful weather.

Sarah Silverman has her own comedy show The Sarah Silverman Program with her own sister Laura Silverman playing her onscreen sister. The comedy is a bit ‘dangerous’; she doesn’t know the meaning of the expression politically correct, in a very refreshing way.

“She is early Lenny Bruce if he was a girl who grew up reading Hannah Arendt” (Roseanne Barr, Time)

The first four shows are online at TV Links.

I’ve started a Flickr group - art from Art - for any photo’s you’ve taken of a piece of Art, having been inspired to come up with your own interpretation of what you see. So please have a think if you have any photos that fit the bill. Alternativly, you could go see some “Art” and take your camera with you.

If you fancy going to the Live Earth concert in July, don’t forget to register before midday on Monday.

Sorry for the lack of posts again. Have been busy, even my computer remained shut from Tuesday to today – some kind of record. My colleague has been visiting from across the pond, which is always nice and means lots of meetings and this time a conference as well, which happened to take place at my old Uni – I even ended up parking (I know I ended up driving one day) in my first year car park and went on a nostalgia visit to the library. Actually car parks were a thing, because later when I drove into town, I remembered where I used to park and how to get there, I was chuffed that I remembered – small things. Also, amazed that my car made it that far and back again without the need to call out the RAC, which I was half expecting to have to do.

Other things that happened this week: I got attacked. Really. Kicked three times in broad daylight and chased and I have to thank a guy called Aly (not sure about the spelling) who basically saved me from being very scared and possibly being kicked again. My colleague and I were minding our own business, when this guy came up and spat at her and I had to ask why, it was an involuntary reaction. The guy kicked me each time in the same place, behind the knee – I’ve been wondering if there was a reason for it, because it didn’t leave a mark, anywhere else and I’d have had an enormous bruise. My colleague missed a free afternoon and I missed a tea party at C’s, whilst we gave statements to the police. Also, it’s not what you want a visitor to remember of London; I had to reassure both of us that I’d never experienced anything like it before. And then both C and Big R said we were lucky he hadn’t had a knife and at the time I hadn’t even thought about it, but sadly and reluctantly I’ll admit they have a point.

And I met a woman who knew my aunt years ago – one of those situations where I thought, shall I go up and ask her or not? When I asked her what my aunt had been like she said like me, which isn’t news as I’ve grown up being told I look like her – I thought that must have been odd for the woman though, to be accosted by a stranger who looks like someone from her past.

Apart from that I’ve had an ultrasound to try to find a reason for the anaemia. I’ve sat next to a family who didn’t know who Jennifer Aniston was. I ate a whole pack of Rolo’s (not as nice as I remember them) driving home from the conference. I went to bed at 9 O’clock one evening, it was that time of the month, I drank lots of miso soup and I finally pumped up my tires – even if I did deflate one first, because I’d forgotten to “press the button” – that was embarrassing. I got tooted at on the M25 for going 55 mph in the slow lane, it wasn’t busy, but I don’t think they wanted to have to change lanes. I had another cupcake with a purple flower on it. And The Niece refused to come and spend the weekend doing ‘fun’ things in preference to sitting in front of the TV.

It was such a beautiful evening… it was 5 O’clock and it felt like mid summer. C and I were completely not dressed for it - I had on boots, woolen socks, and a thermal vest… LOL.