31.1.12

sometimes
it's so hard to keep up
with a little girl on fire
our resident whirling dervish




or is it bunker fever she's got
like her mother
for not having seen a landscape bigger than our garden
for months with all this rain?





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25.1.12


















it's still raining and a. has been kept out of school by a violent allergic cough
so we're going with it,
raiding the blues of old magazines
for a rainy day collage







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other bits for 'thank you' cards








hope it's a bit brighter where you are . .   .
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22.1.12


colder than london/brussels/paris

+ wet


wishing for an indoor garden:













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16.1.12























promenades with beloved parents/grandparents coming to an end as they return to their routine and we to ours.
until soon, we hope. . .











[st sophia, nicosia]

14.1.12

playing with shadows (cut out an old ikea postcard; attach 4 legs!)






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a (little unnerving?) cyclops' eye (once a lizard gazing out of a tv magazine)

have a fun, exhilarating weekend!







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11.1.12



bliss . .  . disguised as a quiet moment







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A LADY'S IMAGINATION IS VERY RAPID;
IT JUMPS FROM ADMIRATION TO LOVE,
FROM LOVE TO MATRIMONY
IN A MOMENT 







after 18 years of marital union i can faintly recall
that little moment jane austen is talking about
 - and revisit it with a smile . .  .




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9.1.12

i didn't go
with k and his parents to st minas monastery + kato drys village


but a. returned to school today
and i had the first few alone hours
in a long time


spent mostly smiling like a child in a sweetshop .  .  .








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7.1.12



































just when you begin to think it's all over
and that you can regroup, relax and reflect . . .


in our family it's round 2, with k's serbian (old calendar) christmas!






(. . . but sadly the migraine doesn't care either way)


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3.1.12


































recycling our holiday cheer into . . . a chair





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our gift boxes into giant goggles!
we are apparently making a jungle in a shoebox next  . . .











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1.1.12























wishing you a serene, luminous 2012!









[a typical night in the himalayas - by anton jankovoy]

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