It was very cold and bright this morning, though the flat was reasonably toasty. After a quiet start, the GF and I strolled out to see what is up with the flat, and found that the kitchen had been plastered and was looking very light and airy. It will be a shame to fill it […]
Virtues of broccoli
Overnight the weather changed, as forecast. Seemingly in the course of an hour, the temperature fell from 17 degrees to below zero, and when we woke up it was sleeting lightly. We woke up early, as we had to go to Tarabya as a friend had kindly volunteered to take us to a man who […]
Long overdue
This morning I went for a long overdue haircut. I don’t even have the lockdown excuse, really, just a dislike of going for haircuts which makes finding a hairdresser in new cities especially difficult. I became fed up yesterday, and spent about 20 minutes looking for a hairdresser who could cut short women’s hair. I […]
Unfunny jokes
Occurred to me today how they are a weapon primarily of the powerful, at least these days. And humourlessness the weapon of the weak?
Along the walls
The plan this afternoon was to walk along the land walls of Byzantium. It was not the best devised plan, as I was a bit under the weather, so we got off at the wrong tram stop and then wandered through residential streets, along the tall walls of a graveyard we should have walked through, […]
Coming together
After a good bit of work this morning, I went off to run a couple of Friday errands, or rather one errand, to top up my phone. This done, I walked down Istiklal towards Taksim. It’s much, much warmer now, with barely any need for a coat, and very sunny. It was fairly crowded, though […]
TV time
The GF had a late call tonight, so I had the ipad and watched a bit of I will destroy you. I think I am unused to watching anything on television, as I found myself looking at it rather than sinking into it, though I did start enjoying it partway through the second. Yet remained […]
Founding fathers
The other founding father of the nation had his folk artistic treatment. First there was Jinnah’s birthday cake in December, and now there is this rather splendid sculpture of Iqbal in a Lahore public park. The first still makes me laugh, but the second I rather like, and thought it was rather lovely that it […]
Samosas on a train
A message received. I had such a profound dream last night. Saw X and myself on a train in Australia in bikinis and eating samosas. I did eat one yesterday actually after I got my Indian groceries. It was a terribly fat samosa.
Demolition
A rather difficult day. I had a lot of work, but it was a sunny day and I went with the GF to Kadikoy. We waited for the ferry at Karakoy, didn’t realise it was the one moored at the pier, and missed it as chugged away. The next one was only 20 minutes away, […]