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INIESTA


INIESTA


INIESTAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

If you are in TO, or visiting TO or think you could afford to visit TO this summer....

GO, NAY RUN, NAY GET THEE to the Dream in High Park's Romeo and Juliet.

It was fabulous, absolutely wonderful.  Very accessible and very very well acted by most of the players, Juliet, the Nurse and Mercurio was also brilliant.  Such a lot of fun.

It's shortened down to 90 minutes and geared to a family audience...they get a laugh in the first few moments.....

You need a blanket, get there around 6pm with a picnic and a friend, a sweater for the evenings and limber legs.

Lovely.

Internet was down last night, so here's a quick update for today...on the house!

A couple more photos of the house from yesterday...

this is the girl's bathroom...there are two doors, so they can access it from either room....right here, all you can really see is the doors.

This is the new window in the dining room looking onto the patí and the kitchen window.   The other photos wouldn't load, so that's all I've got...

Somehow this won't center up properly, Blogger seems to have a whole lot of attitude today...so do my kids, it all fits in!

Hope you have a good one!

SPAIN!!!!!!

Je je je je je je je je je je je...

They pulled their crap together....they're pros...

and Pujol....a defence.....ticked with this fancy work by the forwards....nuff of that crap....it was something like his fifth career goal....and a very nice one, thank you very much!!!!


Listen here while you watch it here.

Nicely done.

Update....

The man sent these photos today, they've taken down the wall in the living room...much nicer, despite that drain pipe I hate.

The view from the landing into the livingroom.

The new dining room out back coming into form.

Not too shabby on the whole, no?

What is THAT all about...

This morning I went in to pick up some bagels at a much recommended bagel place near where I work.  The bagels looked pretty tasty, there was a good variety and a fair crowd.  All good signs.

The creamed cheese looked amazing, all the right kind of stuff.

Then I went to pay.  Well, I don't know who p*ssed in her cornflakes this morning, but my oh my oh my.

For 8 am that was some serious cranky pants she had on.

What's with that???

Like I am supposed to know by intuition what payment methods are available in your store?

SOOOO sorry.

Don't worry though, I won't be back.

I don't know what possessed me

On the first day here, in full on jet lag mode blended neatly with overwhelming book lust, I hit the library.

It was actually somewhat epic.  Seems I had 2 bucks or so in library fines.  Sadly, I had just been a good citizen and dumped most of my change in the parking meter, so could not pay the fine.  Also I needed to renew the card, and the only piece of information with the relevant address on it was over a year old.

They didn't accept it.

I went home, somewhat despondently and got a new document -  rummagerummagerummage - and went back.

Finally, the Toronto Public Library card that I frankly LOVE and cherish was renewed.  Ecstatically I hit the stacks and checked out about 10 books.

Never in my life have I run across a stack of ten more dismal books.

I have no idea what happened, but they are dreadful.  I am currently, and with absolutely no enthusiasm slogging through Rohinton Mistry's Family Matters, a "#1 BESTSELLER"


I loathe it.  I keep giving it a try, but honestly.  I grant I am only on page 129 or 469, but if I am still hating it unremittingly by page 129 it is not a good sign.  The characters are chiefly repugnant, or so vulnerable and ill-used that it is agonizing, there is neglect, selfishness, craftyness and whining.  UGH.

No idea what happened to me, but jet lag does not seem to be all that good for my book selection skills.

So here's the question....

What is the last book you read that you hated...or the book you hated MOST of them all.....

C'mon, let's here 'em....

what was the worst, and why.

I need your help ladies and gentlemen

We used to keep the boat in Florida, and there were many many wonderful things about the chance to spend time in inland Florida...a fantastic place.  We made good friends, we ate fantastic Mexican food, we saw lots of cows and oranges, and we got hot hot hot hot hot.

The boat yard had a machine with cheap pop....my kids still closely associate boatyards, heat and Florida with root beer.  Me too.

What I really loved though, really really loved....

Sweet tea.

Ya know what though, I come from the wrong part of the world to make it right.  We have iced tea and all, but it is soooo not the same....

so folks, it's getting hot here, and I'm craving me some sweet tea....

really, gotta get me some, 

so those of you who know how...

help me out, please... a recipe!

Pleeeeaasse!

Went sailing

Good gracious, how I love it.

Aaaaaahhhhhhhhh.

Happy Canada Day all....

What a lovely day it was.  Spent it with kids, and friends and dogs.

Sadly, not with the man who is still stuck in Spain.

A fabulous day nonetheless.  Tea and chat and fireworks and food.

Mmmmmm.