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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Iran Diary, 18-19 April 2008

Continued from previous page Friday & Saturday, 18-19 April Persepolis, Naqsh-e Rustam, Pasargardae and Shiraz Shiraz is about 550 miles southwest of Tehran and about hundred or so miles East of the Persian Gulf. The day’s highlight is a trip to Persepolis, about an hour’s drive from Shiraz. I wake... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, August 6, 2012

Iran Diary, 16-17 April 2008

Continued from previous page Tehran Diary, 16-17 April 2008 Wednesday, 16 April p.m. Another carpet warehouse. I peel off and go on a solo walkabout. Abbas is anxious about me going off and writes down for me the name of the hotel in Farsi and his mobile number – “Just in case,” he says. Tehran is a... Sign in to see full entry.

Iran Diary – April 2008

Iran Diary – April 15-27, 2008 Towards the end of March 2008, I ran into Christopher, whom I hadn’t seen for a long time. I asked him what he was up to and he told me that the following month, April, he was taking a small party to Iran to look at oriental rugs and how they are made, and also to... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, August 5, 2012

About Film

The international film magazine Sight and Sound began polling critics for their lists of top ten films in 1952, when Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves (1948) became the first winner. In each subsequent decade it has been Orson Welles’s classic story of press tycoon Charles Foster Kane that has... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, August 4, 2012

Stock

Yesterday I used up the last of the stock I made a week or so ago. I have enough chicken carcases to make a new lot but for fresh veg I must go shopping. I need only celery and carrots; onions, garlic, parsley and spices I have plenty at home. I end up buying other foodstuffs, as I knew I would;... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, August 3, 2012

Ships that pass in the night

She is standing in front of me in the queue at the Post Office. The back of her head is inches from my face and I am looking at her straight, dark hair, cut very short. It is beautifully cut. I see why some women are prepared to spend a small fortune on a good haircut. It does make a difference. I... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Two wooden coffins

The two plain wooden coffins were brought out and placed side by side in the mortuary chapel. Each had a paper label on its lid with the name written by hand. Arthur was one of the deceased; the other was his wife Cynthia. The undertaker read a few pages from one of Arthur’s books and when he... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

To be a farmer

I am not a farmer. But if I were given a second chance to live my life again, I would unhesitatingly choose tilling the land, watching crops grow, fruit ripen, nature reinvent itself as seasons come and seasons go. It is, of course, too late now. The Clock cannot be turned back; such second chances... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Montfort Castle

To St Giles Post Office by bus to post a small package. Then to the OXFAM bookshop nearby, looking for an inexpensive volume of Aurelius’s Meditations. No luck. But noticed a paperbound copy of ‘History of Crusades’ at £4.99. Purchased it on impulse (no doubt will regret it later - for lack of shelf... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, July 30, 2012

Email from Tatiana ...

Email this morning from Tatiana in Chekhov. Not much to say. Nor have I. Both wells are running dry. Not surprising, given the distance and the generation gap. Spent most of last night figuring the workings and mechanics of Blogit. Not sure how to handle comments received or to be given. I don’t... Sign in to see full entry.

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