Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Today has not been good.
I woke up with a cold.
The bookshelves being made for my office, already several weeks late, turned up and were, in the oh so accurate words of our temporary IT technician, 'MFI tat' so have had to be sent back and we are now looking at several more weeks with all my books and files on the Board Room table.
The shutters in my room, meant to be being restored by the same builders, were declared unrepairable- they want to make new ones, thus wasting the old wood and more delay too of course.
The painters cluttered the room up in the only hour I had to do my email, pointlessly painting said condemned shutters.
I was told the new sign on our playing fields has a spelling mistake.
The amazing designers doing our lovely new logo are completely stuck over whether we use a colon (wrongly), a hyphen (offends their design sense), two different colours or fonts (ditto), a comma (ditto and I think they are right) or a vertical line (they like, we think it is like a barrier) in the middle of our excellent new strap line (which I cannot reveal to my eager readers till early Oct) and we need to decide by tomorrow at 9am.
Whenever it was sunny I was stuck indoors. When I went to go home, and to move my car back from Reception to the house now the staff car park is finished, it was raining and I had a front wheel puncture out of nowhere. Oh, and I'm meant to be taking the car into the garage first thing tomorrow for a service.
But then..
Our wonderful evening porter Colin tried to change the wheel for me. True to the day, he couldn't get the locking wheel nuts off, BUT the RAC came - in about half an hour- changed it for me very quickly so I still saw most of Holby. And my friend Alleycat has finally posted a comment on here.
And despite all this I managed to stick to the latest attempt at a diet. So maybe things are looking up.
I've still got the cold though.
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
No matter what I do Blogger won't let me add these pictures to the previous post.. so.. here is the last bit with the pictures. At last.. even this has taken two days!
Sometimes the water is just an invisible presence, keeping the countryside green- despite these being taken just a week or so after the end of the long dry heatwave:
Sometimes it is a brooding hint of water to come- time to close the car roof..
(And just to clarify. I have a very sensible car, not an open top one, but we were with our friends from Geneva that day in their soft-top BMW. Very nice too.)
Sunday, September 03, 2006
Looking at my photos from our French trip I can't help seeing that water keeps recurring as a theme. Some of it was in very traditional fountains like this one:
or in village fountains like this:
or in ultra-modern city fountains like this one in Reims:
There seems to be a fascination for me in capturing the water's movement but also in capturing the effect of stillness:
(I have resisted the urge to straighten this picture in Photoshop as it was the chateau itself which seemed to have been built at right angles to the slope it was on rather than me holding the camera crooked..)
Sometimes the water is just an invisible presence, keeping the countryside green- despite these being taken just a week or so after the end of the long dry heatwave:
Sometimes it is a brooding hint of water to come- time to close the car roof..
(more photos to follow, Blogger playing up!)
