Monday, July 11, 2005

Get out, fairy queen and food.

1. Waking up and realising that it's a hot day and you have a line-up of outside things--a workshop in the park and a play on the Pantiles.

2. The fairy costumes in A Midsummer Night's Dream. In this performance, Titania wore an ivy leaf bustiere and she had green sparkly eyelashes.

3. Here are the nice things I have eaten and drunk today: A tall mug of milky coffee while doing my morning computer duties. Some dolce latte cheese, a tomato with salt and pepper and some particularly good olive bread for late lunch. Martini Rosso and lemonade on the Pantiles. And bottles of beer and a handful of strawberries in the small hours.

Goldfinches, meeting and mackerel.

1. Goldfinches, painted like they're going to war, crowd the bird feeders. 2. We meet my cousin's partner for the first time, and it...