Monday, May 09, 2005

Wavy light, reading while you eat and limber.

1. Windows with old glass in them because of the waviness. And I like thinking about all the people who must have looked through them over the years.

2. Eating icecream while reading a popular-novel-of-the-day. In this case The Jane Austen Book Club. It's light and frothy, combining intimate details about people's lives - the sort of thing you wouldn't say out loud at a book club - with the study of literature.

3. Reading that 'You will not be able to do this (yoga position) if your spine is not correctly aligned' and discovering that I could do the stretch easily. The next one - the plough - was a different matter. I got the giggles with my knees round my ears. But it reminded me of how much fun yoga is - or should be.

Bee, green beans and movie night.

1. An enormous fat bumble bee at work. She is so bulky that she can knock dead blossoms out of the way as she gets right in to the new jasmi...