The snow has long since melted, buds have started to emerge and I've heard some occassional birds singing, so spring is slowly coming to England. And still my pink room is as cold as ever - I'm glad I have that pink blanket :)
Spring is in the air
Jens was an incredibly easy visitor, as he had promised. He happily joined for the farewell dinner for M at work, stayed out as long as I wanted and went home when I got tired. We spent Saturday wandering around Brighton in general but especially the North Laine, had lunch at my favourite café there (but I resisted the soy milkshake this time..), and went to the Pier for my first ride at the funfair there. I probably laughed more than anyone else on the whole pier. In general it's been a very relaxing weekend.
London baby!
The hostel in London was an exhibition in different kinds of moulds but close to a lovely old-fashioned pub and the tube, which was convenient the next morning. So our Sunday included fika, a nice walk in Hyde Park, lunch at a lovely café close to Camden Lock (rice cheesecake.. vegan chocolate mousse cake.. i didn't need dinner after that lunch. the rice cheesecake was amazing btw, wonder how they made it), hours of wandering around Camden and Camden Lock, and some more fika. Lovely day, and I found some really nice laminated Banksy posters.
Back in Brighton I've cooked a lot to have lunches for the upcoming week. I accidentally woke up my landlady the other night when I got home from really late and started cooking my dinner at midnight. I felt really bad the next day when she had left a polite note asking me not to cook after 10 pm. I'm simply too used to living alone, and didn't realise she would notice, I've never woken her up before. Anyway I'll stay out of the kitchen at night now, but that will be tricky since I'm normally not home before 10. Tonights cooking became very lentil-based since I didn't have time to go shopping, so I now have a green lentil and apples pie and a carrot, red lentils and grapefruit soup in the fridge. Yummie. Couldn't eat much though, that chocolate mousse cake was really rich :)
As were the chocolate truffles D and I had at Food for friends Wednesday night. I liked the place. And he thinks that tardigrades are cute (and they are). And he went from Isle of Wight where he lived back then, to London just to attend the big march against the war in Iraq some years ago. And he cares a lot about the environment. And there's so many small things about him I really like. And when I look at him, I get the mixed feeling I have when thinking about M and other people here I care about - I'm happy because I like them, and I'm sad because I know I'm leaving soon.
Spring is in the airJens was an incredibly easy visitor, as he had promised. He happily joined for the farewell dinner for M at work, stayed out as long as I wanted and went home when I got tired. We spent Saturday wandering around Brighton in general but especially the North Laine, had lunch at my favourite café there (but I resisted the soy milkshake this time..), and went to the Pier for my first ride at the funfair there. I probably laughed more than anyone else on the whole pier. In general it's been a very relaxing weekend.
London baby!The hostel in London was an exhibition in different kinds of moulds but close to a lovely old-fashioned pub and the tube, which was convenient the next morning. So our Sunday included fika, a nice walk in Hyde Park, lunch at a lovely café close to Camden Lock (rice cheesecake.. vegan chocolate mousse cake.. i didn't need dinner after that lunch. the rice cheesecake was amazing btw, wonder how they made it), hours of wandering around Camden and Camden Lock, and some more fika. Lovely day, and I found some really nice laminated Banksy posters.
Back in Brighton I've cooked a lot to have lunches for the upcoming week. I accidentally woke up my landlady the other night when I got home from really late and started cooking my dinner at midnight. I felt really bad the next day when she had left a polite note asking me not to cook after 10 pm. I'm simply too used to living alone, and didn't realise she would notice, I've never woken her up before. Anyway I'll stay out of the kitchen at night now, but that will be tricky since I'm normally not home before 10. Tonights cooking became very lentil-based since I didn't have time to go shopping, so I now have a green lentil and apples pie and a carrot, red lentils and grapefruit soup in the fridge. Yummie. Couldn't eat much though, that chocolate mousse cake was really rich :)
As were the chocolate truffles D and I had at Food for friends Wednesday night. I liked the place. And he thinks that tardigrades are cute (and they are). And he went from Isle of Wight where he lived back then, to London just to attend the big march against the war in Iraq some years ago. And he cares a lot about the environment. And there's so many small things about him I really like. And when I look at him, I get the mixed feeling I have when thinking about M and other people here I care about - I'm happy because I like them, and I'm sad because I know I'm leaving soon.
11 februari 2010 kl. 13:12
vet att det är jääättelänge sen du gjorde det här inlägget men jag läste precis om trögkrypare (tardigrades) i min bok och blev lite inspirerad. visste du att de kan gå från 85% vattenhalt i kroppen till 2% och ligga och vänta i ett decennium, och om de får vatten då så går de tillbaka till sin ursprungliga form och fortsätter äta som om inget har hänt? coola små saker! :)