31 May 2008 07:28 am 6
you can't take anything for granted these days, not even 5 minutes of sunshine. maybe it's the trying to grow basil seedlings for the first time but i'm noticing more than other years that summer in london is really like watching a long film in a tinted glass steam room. waiting for the pimms punctuations, smiling in a sort of stupefaction, you imagine one day you'll be able to blog about the beauty of seeing colorful clothes hanging on lines as you take the train to work through west norwood. that maybe someone forgot to pick them up and they're getting sunbleached, and what about all those dried up derelict sheds and rusty fences, where do the thoughts go etc.… Read More
22 Dec 2007 07:30 am 3
wishing to celebrate the winter solstice without ancient stylee hecatomb will find some of us looking for the most gorgeous blocks of tofu, bricks of oat milk, beautiful ginger root, beets, eggplant, mangos, fat hand made marzipan figurines and lemon sorbet to cleanse the palate in el corte ingles, in lavapies, or in the organic food shop on calle huertas before things shut down. i already brought the candied ginger down from london, and the fake mayonnaise (powered with pea protein) with which to impress my family when the time of the white asparagus comes. i can already see my dad eating the entire jar with a spoon and wiping it clean with a piece of bread. wishing you an… Read More