The Singing Housewife and Simone the Little Pig
Things I love about La Ferme du Lama Gourmand: 1. The fact that it is called La Ferme du Lama Gourmand – The Farm of the Gourmet Llama. And, evidently, the llamas. Quite possibly some of the funniest looking animals in the world. They are also very well behaved when it comes to posing for […]
the day to day today
I am content. I wake up in my cottage with a red door. I’m all covered with blankets but I get up and shower while it is dark. Breakfast is at 8 with coffee-in-a-bowl comme d’habitude and muesli laden with nuts. Then it’s to work. I can bike ride to the greenhouses, down narrow hedge-lined […]
Farewell sweet friend of mine…
We met in 2006. You arrived just when I needed you. Bringing comfort and support, giving me space, complimenting me perfectly. Together we toiled 7 days (and nights) per week at the Edge Theatre where the stars trod the boards 10 minutes apiece in efforts to prove their potential fame and entertain Newtown’s masses. Incognito, […]
Biscuits and Patriotism
Please excuse typos, strange letterıng and Is wıthout dots…Turkısh keyboard. I am not a good patrıot. I went to Gallıpolı the other day and was unmoved by the multıtude of war memorıals and tales of heroıcs. Even when I found out my great-great-Uncle Arthur had fought there and survıved I dıd not feel prıde. I […]
‘An Other Tourist’ or ‘The Problem with Straight People’
The other day Kamilla and I were spat at for kissing in the streets of Dubrovnik. Now, I myself have great disdain for overt public displays of affection, but the violent hate on this man’s face told me that it was our gender and not any perceived cutesy romanticism that led him to part with […]
Americans Say the Darndest Things
I wrote the following quotes down. These people were crazy. and possibly oil tycoons. A man in his 70s and his two kids (in their 30s). I wasn’t fast enough to note the conversation in which the father denounced global warming as a joke. I had been surreptitiously listening to them and when this started […]
Maeve’s Travel Tips for Various Countries
Czech Republic In Prague, be prepared to be somewhat unconvinced that you are in an actual city and not a European Fairytale Theme Park. Avoid large groups of British men with ‘lads on the lash’ t-shirts and freshly made tattoos. Do NOT avoid the communism museum, amusingly situated behind a MacDonald’s. Please also go to […]
Good Times, Cheese & Swissbians*
* Please note that not all the lovely Swiss citizens I hung out with were lesbians, it’s just that swisstrosexuals doesn’t have the same ring to it. I arrived in Bern after an epic journey (well epic if compared to getting the train from newtown to central…not epic compared to, say, the odyssey.) I caught […]
Ice Ice Baby
I arrived at 1am at my couch surfing host’s place in Reykjavik and knocked on the window as instructed. “Am I in the right place?” I asked when the door opened. “I don’t know…Are you?” My host was out at work and his two friends were waiting at his place. They weren’t sure if he […]
show us ya fjord
I found this quote in Orlando by Virginia Woolf and it seemed like a good place to start… ´Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces. The shade of green Orlando now saw spoilt […]
