Overlap

Back home, happy, ready to move on from 2014. Sputnik Sweetheart finished.

Wrestling with this cymbal bag! NYE cracker done, presents wrapped. The end of the cymbal bag seems like it could just be over the horizon.... 4 days of epic madness with The Lady! Christmas roast for NYE, Salmon and Phillie cracker starters with Champagne (Amiculum laid to rest), Thyme and rosemary chicken mains with all the vegetables, Home-baked Apple crumble dessert with custard :) Fireworks!! Sparklers! Presents! Long exposure experiments and awesome shots :) Introduction to Jeeves and Wooster, Mind your language, Scandal, West Wing, Shakespeare's animated tales!! Armageddon clips on Youtube. Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaimon Good Omens on BBC radio.

Cymbal bag FINALLY done, with much needed help! Rivets!

And here endeth 2014.

1,2, skip a few, 2014, 2015!>>>

Christmas!

New squash league season - first league game won!! Second league game won!! Awfully sore back now though.... Christmas with the Harringtons, Julio Caesar and George Orson Welles in 'who's in the bag'. Watched episode 1 of Black mirror on Ch's absolute insistence. Bought a Haruki Marukami book - Sputnik Sweetheart. Engrossed. Painted with little F, made magic on the ceiling with glow-in-the-dark paint, restretched R's mom's painting on canvas frame. Last two episodes of Cabin Pressure on BBC radio.

HOW DID CHRISTMAS GET THIS CLOSE

Annual Return filed JUST in time, Dissolution papers filled in and sent off. Evening with Ch in Byron Burgers, Islington - pure awesome. Spent the afternoon ambling around Oxford Circus with Esh, starting our inner city adventure! Sunday in Chislehurst with J and O, visiting the caves! Cancelled last of the squash season games due to injury from playing against D. Christmas lunch with Ams and the gang - Cross Stitch Bitch! Anna Calvi at St John's church in Hackney was spectacular. More clarity and some firm decisions. Honest, open talk with SP.

Night out with Sh, Na, Jo and Esh at the BFI bar. Red wine, fags and conversation about about being in love with more than one person at a time. Chatting to Na about William Kentridge. Working on finishing the holiday calendar. Dinner with Su at a moroccan restaurant in Bond street. Amiculum christmas after-party. Open wounds, guilt and regret pouring out. Trying to heal it with a promise to myself that I won't be going back.

This week

4 days of sin continues! Christmas at Ben & Cam's. The Godfather live. Behance portfolio update. Squash against Dan - vast improvement. Broadway Market street with Mel. Dreams. Madnella accounts closed off. 20% growth from last year! Lamb tagine with my Miss. Galaxy Quest and THE FALL penultimate episode.

Last week

Impressionist soft pastel drawing of mom's garden. 100ft journey at the V&A Waterfront, interrupted by load shedding and a race to get out of the shopping mall before everyone else. Chinese dinner with R, B, mom and C - went... well! Sunday morning geological jaunt on table mountain. Barbara Hendricks in Kirstenbosch with the National Youth Orchestra, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu in attendance.

CHRISTMAS KAROO LAMBSCAPE. Yoga Tuesday morning. Art in the forest pottery studio, and sorting the Gibello canvasses for mom's lounge.

Dad at airport. Arrive home safely, 4 days of sinful behaviour commences! FINALLY FOUND THAT TREE. The Fall with Gillian Anderson....

Such great heights

Leave Sutherland early to stay over in Belair Country Home in Paarl. SINGING LOUDLY in the car! Beautiful. Open outdoors shower, lie down on the massage bed under the trees and sleep. Lying on the grass by the pond, trip around the Spice Route, dinner at the pizzeria, outdoors, watching the sun set over Table mountain. The discussion, shouting and tears. More discussions lying by the pool, full english breakfast in the french dining room, pack up and head to the TAAL MONUMENT! AT LAST! Picnic on the grass by the monument, then home. Little Cat is missing :(


Yoga class with Nes at Source, hike in Kenrock to look for LC. No luck :(

Shopping in Tyger valley, far far away. THE CAT RETURNS AS IF NOTHING HAPPENED.

Squash defeat from both sides! Christmas shopping done and dusted. SURFING GLORY. Big Bay the Whole day. Sunburn included. Dinner with Nes and R and mom - Nandos! Listening to piano in the bath.

Space shuttle to the stars

Kirstenbosch lunch, administrative affairs at home. Edward Hopper Cafe almost done! With Bernard's help. Caropoly with nes and R in the study! Ideas for Caropoly 2.0... Sunday surfing attempts on Long Beach. Prawn curry. SPACE SHUTTLE. BEACH DESSERT! Edward Hopper Cafe done! Skype video chat with Esh. Awesome yoga with Catherine! Christmas shopping, Edward Hopper photoshoot. Misunderstandings and tempers flaring over text.


Drive to Sutherland!! (Nes neck spasm) Stop at AQUILA game reserve for a night. Game drive! Leave for Kambrokind Skrywershuisie a day early - accidentally land on gravel road that takes double the time (but is prettier!) Pee in the veld. Sutherland, lamb shank, the SALT and the SAAO observatories, star gazing, sitting on the stoep.