what a suprise, i just received a phonecall from Kati, a Finnish friend - we went to her wedding in finland last year with a group of friends - saying she and Petri probably will visit me in Edinburgh in the beginning of August! Huray!!!
(maria if you read this : book your tickets...now ! :-) )
30.6.05
29.6.05
exciting summer
well today i looked at it all and i thought : it is going to be an exciting summer...
Why?
Why?
- Edinburgh Fringe Festival has released its programme and I never could have guessed the mere size of this festival... it is a voluminous book full and full of shows; theatre, musical, opera, dance, comedy, childrens activities... and it doesn't include the jazz festival, book festival, film festival, military tattoo and Edinburgh International Festival... oh boy oh boy
- My weekends for July are now fully booked (that's how I like them), with as a highlight the visit of three friends round 22 July (and off course next weekend my visit to Belgium
sounds exciting to me... :-)
24.6.05
If we took a holiday
It seems that this weekend everybody is somewhere else....
People in Germany, people in Aviemore, people coming over to see me(hurray)... i guess that's what they call having holidays...
but what if you live somewhere, where it feels like being on holiday all year round? When every weekend - on every trip you discover something new and beautiful? I guess at that point going on holiday means - going back home - back to Belgium. So that's what i will do - next weekend !
I am a bit afraid though - I will leave on the busiest weekend for travel (first weekend of July) and on that same day Scotland expects a record-number of visitors because of the G8-summit... (the political leaders actually will arrive on Prestwick Airport - where I will leave from - I'll say hi to Mr Bush when I see him... or maybe not...) - it is a petty that I will miss this first day (march on Edinburgh) but I will be back for the biggest fun on July 6th the big G8-Make-Poverty-History-Day... but definitely more about that later!
People in Germany, people in Aviemore, people coming over to see me(hurray)... i guess that's what they call having holidays...
but what if you live somewhere, where it feels like being on holiday all year round? When every weekend - on every trip you discover something new and beautiful? I guess at that point going on holiday means - going back home - back to Belgium. So that's what i will do - next weekend !
I am a bit afraid though - I will leave on the busiest weekend for travel (first weekend of July) and on that same day Scotland expects a record-number of visitors because of the G8-summit... (the political leaders actually will arrive on Prestwick Airport - where I will leave from - I'll say hi to Mr Bush when I see him... or maybe not...) - it is a petty that I will miss this first day (march on Edinburgh) but I will be back for the biggest fun on July 6th the big G8-Make-Poverty-History-Day... but definitely more about that later!
where will you go on holiday?
21.6.05
isn't it bizar...
don't you think it's a bit bizar that...
- ...here in the UK earlier this week on one night more rain fell than normally in one month, while in my hometown in Belgium people are without water (and no doubt in other parts of Europe as well)
- ... because my pc is in the shop for repairs, I sometimes see flashes of the SIMS 2 in front of me (delirium?)
- ...how modern technology helps cocooning? : today for the first time I did my shopping online - and with shopping I mean like drinks, food, bread, milk, meat, etc. I got a free delivery voucher from the local superstore and so next thursday I will expect the delivery at my doorstep of all my goods... ain't that swell
- ...sometimes a comic can really describe how you feel?... I really love the cartoons from NEMI, that appear every morning in the METRO. She is a very black - almost gothic - girl with a lot of irony and self-relativising humour. go and have a look on http://nemi.thtn.com/
14.6.05
Smells
Do you remember smells?
Just so once in a while I am overwhelmed by a scent - it can immediately catapult me back into the past and bring back - very vividly - memories i thought were long forgotton. And I am not only talking about perfumes of certain people. It is the memory of the smell of very peculiar things for instance the hairspray my grandmother used to have, or, just like I experienced today, the scent of the building of a school I went to - and together with that - memories about the wonderful time I had there.
This last smell is captured in the staircase-hall in the office-building where I work now here in Edinburgh. And I treasure this smell - on times when I maybe feel the need to be transformed back to those happy days, I decide to take the stairs and take a deep breath... and it keeps me fit as well
Perfume - Patrick Suskind
Regus Business Centre - Edinburgh
Just so once in a while I am overwhelmed by a scent - it can immediately catapult me back into the past and bring back - very vividly - memories i thought were long forgotton. And I am not only talking about perfumes of certain people. It is the memory of the smell of very peculiar things for instance the hairspray my grandmother used to have, or, just like I experienced today, the scent of the building of a school I went to - and together with that - memories about the wonderful time I had there.
This last smell is captured in the staircase-hall in the office-building where I work now here in Edinburgh. And I treasure this smell - on times when I maybe feel the need to be transformed back to those happy days, I decide to take the stairs and take a deep breath... and it keeps me fit as well
Perfume - Patrick Suskind
Regus Business Centre - Edinburgh
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