We are still here!
And just to prove it, here we are with a newly re-planted window box - viola and chrysanthemums. Alice carefully collected the Nasturtium seeds from the previous lot, and we hope they'll germinate for next year. Ba says we don't do enough being "In Nature" and sitting in a window box for a photo shoot just isn't the same.
She much preferred it when we went to the
Botanic Gardens recently, though she found
John Chamberlain's sculptures ridiculous and boring. Alice and I loved them. But
there's more on that still to come under the heading of
Edinburgh Festival: the Botanic Gardens. Watch this space. Patiently.
So we
will be back again in due course, with more about the Festival. It would have been sooner, but Alice took so
very many photos, and hasn't quite finished editing all of them yet (let alone the promised ones from Yorkshire) plus she's been as busy as ever with her usual life occupations.
One of those I like joining in with is watching interesting and unusual films. Mind you, we're not too highbrow to miss a good block-buster like
Mad Max: Fury Road (Alice enjoyed it so much, we saw it
twice) and we're looking forward to the new James Bond,
Spectre, especially after watching the trailer on
YouTube. Then she's just acquired a video of
Jodorowski's latest offering,
The Dance of Reality, to add to the waiting heap. AND she still goes to her various U3A groups and
Five Rhythms dancing. So of
course the dusting comes last on any list.
Guess what, recently she began
learning Flamenco too! Yeh, really. She's always admired its energy and bravura, and saw some in the Festival, like the one to the right. The best, she reckons, was Israel Galván's
Lo Real. It wasn't very traditional and some critics
didn't like it, but Alice was in raptures. "He kept those wonderful rhythms," she protested. The BBC has an
excellent video with excerpts and an interview, so decide for yourself.
There's life in the old girl yet . . .
