Saw Beowulf in Leicester Square. Very good, the special effects were impressive and we got to keep the 3D glasses. Ray Winstone did the voice for Beowulf but did not look like him. A hunky great viking rather than a podgy East Ender. On the way home, the bus was full of returning shoppers from…
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Christmas eve
Well it’s just me and my kid. We are huddled on the sofa, heating on full, a blanket thrown over our legs. Each of us has a mac book on our laps. We’ve watched Gordon Ramsey kick arse in Kitchen Nightmares (US). We’ve had a big bowl of garlicky tomato sauce on pasta. I’ve had…
Parent Teacher Meeting
Last night I went to my teenager’s Parent Teacher meeting. Started crying my eyes out after the first teacher, a particularly hatchet faced French women who teaches SVT (Sciences de la vie et de la terre). She made it clear that my child was an utter disappointment. I struggled to hold in the tears for…
OK. take it all back. mac sorted me out handsomely with a 20% discount so all is forgiven! I have been working on the photos that I took this summer on our travels to Mexico, Guatemala and Utila, Honduras. The only bit my teenager liked was learning to Scuba dive in Utila. She tolerated the…
apple mac's terrible customer services
I’ve been a mac user since 1992. I don’t even know how to use a p.c. But since the ipod came out the customer service has gone down the drain. Last friday I went to the Brent Cross apple mac shop to buy my daughter a laptop for xmas. My card was declined. They put…
Gormenghast
went to a Sans-titres meeting last weekend at La Valette, a medieval squatted village near Ales. They’ve been squatting it for 14 years. It’s up a hillside, in an abandoned mining village. They have renovated the houses very creatively; it looks like Ghormenghast, with carved stones of gargoyles, turrets, bizarrely stained glass windows, forged iron…
Longo Mai- preparatory meeting for PGA France 2006
re:pga France 2006 Went to the PGA meeting which was held in an annexe of Longo Mai. Longo Mai is a community that’s been going since 1973 and is building Eco houses, from straw bale for instance. There are many families there. They try to be self-sufficient which is why they eat meat. As the…
France is on fire!
It’s beautiful here; I’m up at dawn to drop my daughter off for school bus. At that time it’s cold but the light is amazing, red hillsides, ochre farmsteads and golden vineyards. You can see why Cezanne et al were inspired to paint here. Then I go to the local tabac/bar and down an expresso…
Anti G8 camp in Stirling, Scotland.
Another of my newsletter emails to the samba list. hi was gonna use this morning to give y’all an update but then bombing news (7/7) from London came out during a mass camp meeting and everybody dispersed to find out if their loved ones were OK. We are currently under siege by the riot police…
Torino 2
Ciao tutti! Yesterday was a productive day in Torino. Despite an optimistic call-out from one young frisky German punk to be up at the crack of dawn and then go and exercise in a local park, we managed to rouse ourselves from our coloured sleeping bag pods at about eleven. Some people did do some…