1. My father has achieved his 2005 aim of getting 1,000 photos on to the photo library Alamy.
2. A sparrow scooting around the shed roof -- for mysterious sparrow reasons -- with a leaf in its beak.
3. Suddenly recalling a girl I knew at uni. Sara Gardiner McNeil was a few years older than us, and at the time was incredibly sophisticated compared with us kiddies come straight from school. She kept a flat in Newcastle and when I was dumped by a boyfriend she kidnapped me and took me there for the night. We went grocery shopping in Fenwick's food court and ate smoked salmon straight from the packet without bread or lemon or anything. Sara once passed me on the stairs and announced that she was going to find her kalos kagathos -- it's ancient Greek for young nobleman, or a knight, or a young man that everyone talks about. Sara, wherever you are, hope you found him in the end.
hey, i met sara in cape town. we took rhetoric classes together at uni. i lost track of her but i still think of her sometimes and wish she has indeed by now found her knight in shining armour. after she left SA she went to redo her scottish estate. when last did you see sa? i think i haven't been in touch with her since 2004 when she came to show her nana form some indian ocean islands around!! so, sa!!
ReplyDeletecheers,
nathalie
Hi Nathalie
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen her since I left Durham University in 1998, so you've seen her more recently than me.
I'll never forget how kind she was that weekend she kidnapped me! A couple of hours shopping in Newcastle with her did soooo much for my self-image.
Perhaps she'll Google herself and find us (though I'm not even sure that's the right spelling of her name).
Clare
Clare