August 2009

holi

31 August 2009 - 11:00pm — creativevoyage

found these fascinating pictures of a Hindu festival of colour

a reminder

31 August 2009 - 1:47pm — creativevoyage

make room for your life

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I've just been up town - bought a ticket for something on the International Festival (purely becuase it features the music of David Bowie). Sat in Spoon Cafe for a bit reading Red Magazine and drinking coffee and nibbling on a sausage roll. I was aware of feeling sightly guilty and trying to justify the indulgence. Ridiculous ! I've worked 4 days straight two of them unil 9pm at night. Had no weekend like 'normal' people. An hour reading about Ulma Thurman's divorce is not exactly undeserved.

 

 

5 on a Friday: 5 things I love about modern life

28 August 2009 - 9:00am — creativevoyage

1. Washing Machines - I was without one for 4 days - trying to account for clean clothes and towels to see me through the duration reminded me of how much I rely on it. AND talking to a friend who was without a washing machine for 5 years....

2. NHS/Modern medicine - I've recently been disgnosed with Trench Foot (no joke though I did suggest to a friend I could get a job as a living exhibt at the Imperial War Museum!) I've now got free medicine and care for my poor foot.

3. NHS/Modern dental care: A crown fell out when in contact with a merange a few weeks ago. My sister in law's private dentist in Cambridge charged me £81 for fixing it. My NHS dentist in Edinburgh to make it permanent charged  me £15. Cheap dental care without pain and added Readers Digest consuption in waiting room - priceless !

4. Telephones (not mobiles) - I love having a conversation with someone hundreds of miles away.

5. Internets - I just got contacted by someone in Germany via my website who I last saw about 15 years ago when we worked in the same publishing house. She'd even found me on twitter @creativewoyage and was talking to me about my recent tweets.

more on SA wines

26 August 2009 - 11:00pm — creativevoyage

I got interested after watching a documentary late on BBC2 last week. The two wineris I mentioned in the earlier post are discussed by Neil Pendock on his blog and again here.

Interview with Rhiannon Connelly

26 August 2009 - 12:17pm — creativevoyage

aka Starrybluesky over at Magpie Girl

waiting for permission slows everything down

25 August 2009 - 11:00pm — creativevoyage

Brilliant post by Jenn Lee - give yourself permission or if you can't -

i GIVE YOU PERMISSION !

Waiting for the man from Curries

25 August 2009 - 12:22pm — creativevoyage

I'm attempting to have a day just doing housework.Cleaning, throwing away and organising receipts so I can do my tax. A dull unapetising way to spend a day but as I have to wait in for a washing machine to be delivered... so have stocked up on cleaning sponges and am about to start.

I'd love to be the kind of person who does this sort of thing oh you know regularly 15 mins a day to keep it all under control so binge cleaning is not needed - a sort of uber flylady. I've not managed that for more than 5 minutes beacuse when it comes down to it there is always something more interesting I'd like to do.

Yiddish Song Project

24 August 2009 - 10:28am — creativevoyage

My fellow Yiddish Student is doing a series of shows during the Fringe at The Lot.

TUT

21 August 2009 - 11:00pm — creativevoyage

Let's put it this way: To perform like a "star," to steal the show, and to party with the "Gods"... take the stage, do the dance, and invite yourself.

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from TUT - each weekday they send a note from the universe

5 on a friday

21 August 2009 - 10:44am — creativevoyage

1. M'huti Wine  - the only Black African owned winery in South Africa. I caught a documnetary about them last night. Apparently the wine is available in M&S - I'll try and track some down the next time I'm in.

2. Solms Delta the other winery featured was a 6th generation Afrikaans owned winery but the current owner Prof Mark Solms  was trying to run it partly owned by the black workers and recify the problems and fall out of Apartheide.

3 Apron Exhibition !  I was wandering through Stockbridge in Edinburgh and came across this small exhibtion. This is one of the joys of the festival when people start to think about things they can do which are fun and festive. As it was sited in a company which does cookery holidays it was very appropriate. I actually liked the modern ones the best, Drawings of Mothers Pride Bread and Tunnocks Tea Cakes.

4. Galerie Mirages -  I didn't have time to pop in but this has the most amazing jewellery  just down a narrow passageway besides Peckhams.

5. The Shelter and Oxfam bookshops also in Stockbridge. If you need holiday reading bothe are excellent for picking up books.