Thanks again to everyone who has posted.
I am most fortunate to be in your company.
greenguzzi
When I read about
Timor-Leste on Wikipedia, I thought how lucky I was to live in a stable country with so few problems - it certainly puts our relatively trivial domestic woes in perspective. When I saw you came from "a land down-under" I thought, 'Oh yeah, Timor is just a hop and a skip from Oz. But not for you, my friend down in Melbourne !
Thaif
I did not know that Värttinä composed music for the
Lord of the Rings stage musical.
It appears no accident that Värttinä should work on LOTR as I read that
J.R.R. Tolkien considered Finnish to be a particularly beautiful language.
I wish I could express how unusual suomi appears to an English speaker.
How can "Näiltä tuulilta tulevan" translate to "
These are the winds that will bear him to me" ?
There are not enough words !
LuellaDobson
I too suffer Radiator Envy but it reminds me a little of the Lady in the Radiator from
Eraserhead.
What a fantastic appartment - it looks big and like it has been really well kept.
lilibat
Many thanks for the pics at
313 Castle Christgau. I'm now listening to 'Hong Kong Garden' in your honour - goth and Black Japan lacquer - I've never made that connection before - that is brilliant ! And pretty brave taking the black gloss to the skirting and door frame. And so right. Have you got black skirting throughout the house ? Looks like there's a lot of work in the curtains - I'm afraid I've hemmed my IKEA curtains with sewing pins and forgotten about them. One day I will learn how to drive the sewing machine.
Von Gast
Are you completely shattered then ? The last couple of days must have been a bit of a marathon. But, it's nice when it stops, isn't it ?
Coordinating the skirting/doorframe/window colour with the furniture was a good idea. An opulent feel ? Like a gentleman's club ? Does that make sense at all ? (I've had two glasses of Gordon's Sloe Gin).
lilibat I meant to mention - I wandered round 313 for a bit last night and your blog mentioned Tawny Port as being better because it's not so sweet. Well Gordon's Sloe Gin is described as having a "dry yet fruity taste". To me (I like things as-dry-as-a-bone) it's still sweet, but not clawingly so, and the flavour is more complex than just "fruity".
clairdelune
That's my kind of sofa ! And I've just spotted a
Steinlen cat in the kitchen.
And I'm grateful to Herr Döktor for the pointer to
Les Baxter.
A wild stab in the dark here... Do either of you know the version of Cole Porter's "Anything Goes" by Pee Wee Hunt?
Prof. A. Morphous
Is that a ginger jar ? And on the lower shelf - what is the glassware ?
Sorry for all the Hyperlinks to Wikipedia.
I have photos of Lol's Bedroom to post.
I will do it later today.
Orlando.