Nobody’s perfect…..

Friday was one of those days that reassure you that, however cold and grey it has been, spring genuinely is on it’s way back.

 

waiting for trains in the sun

 

 

I had a nice time waiting for my train and crunching autumnal leaves at the station, having made the briefest of visits home to wish my sister happy 18th! and go to an antiques auction with mutti. Where i got nothing at all but wanted a box of old old tins. 

Friday night was the night of lights, when all of the city was lit up (but which bits were always like that? I think we forgot) and delicious cake was had. My life sometimes seems to centre around cake, and most food, a tiny bit too much. But oh well. Broadway cinema had lamps which I wish to own, if I ever have a house big enough to contain them, and I excitedly discovered that a group of the artists doing the current exhibition there are from my home town (where i thought art pretty much didn’t exist at all).

Valentines day yesterday and love it or hate it, I like any day that lets me buy heart shaped pink and red things and drink strawberry sparkling wine. And gifts! We hired a picnic from Delilah’s lovely deli – it came in the cutest hamper (which we have to take back, curses) and was filled with meats and cheese, olives and salad and chocolates and prosseco and the sweet little strawberry bubbles which had a cute note from Delilah’s on.

 

This stuff tasted of actually strawberry jam, if strawberry jam fizzed on your tongue and made you giggle. Then we had tea in my bestest (and regrettably, only) tea set and watched old films and I loved Tony Curtis quite a lot.

 

Today….strolling into town for hamper return, spaghetti purchasing and cake related fun with some of the best ladies across the pond (except here, right now).

~ by missbeliever on February 15, 2009.