It really was. We're off to Luxor next weekend for my friend N's birthday - most likely our final time there. I could send you a postcard, if you like?
'Lessons'
Spike's Bitches 30: Going on Thirteen
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Taking a felucca ride from the Corniche (10 minutes from my house) and trailing my fingers in Nile water that has travelled through Tanzania, Uganda, the Sudan and Ethiopia before reaching Egypt. Drinking chilled wine with friends and enjoying the cool breeze and the shade of the canopy on this very hot day. Standing on the prow barefoot, with a glass of good wine in one hand and some ripe cherries in the other and a nervous hope that my very nice scarf wouldn’t blow away in the wind.I want Fay to script all of my days... Barefoot while floating on a lovely river with nice wine and ripe cherries is damn near perfect. With a fetching scarf and mysterious sunglasses (all of my best fantasies have sunglasses, I have trouble keeping my eyes open in photographs and sunglasses nicely hide this fact and/or stop me from worrying and thus shutting my eyes, so I have much nicer photos where there are sunglasses involved.) on it is wonderful.
Oh yes! Yes yes yes! Thankyou! And take a ride in a felucca for me?
(I must admit, there were no sunglasses - couldn't find them in time. Should buy some new ones, really...)
Jars, send me your snailmail addy? (thingsinvisibletosee at gmail dot com)
Insent, Fay.
ETA ask if there's anything I can send from Yorkshire that you might like?
(I must admit, there were no sunglasses - couldn't find them in time. Should buy some new ones, really...)You have no sunglasses? How do you exist in sunlight?
Jars! Sunglasses, our Fay needs sunglasses!
I don't have sunglasses because I can't wear them over my own glasses. So I wear hats, but then sometimes the hats I have don't go with the clothes I'm wearing so I just have to squint. It's not an ideal situation.
Also, why is my cold making me dizzy? What possible reason could it have?
I will happily wear hats and sunglasses. I think there are pictures of this. Should I ever need to wear glasses all of the time instead of just while reading or megacomputing, I will need those mag ones that snap on top of the glasses and then hold on for dear life. To protect me from the scary bright sun.
Bad cold, no dizzying up the girl.
Tired again. Going back to sleep. If I can figure out what Puppycat is scurrying after. Or convince her to stop. Whichever.
Oh Fay that sounds absolutely lovely. Except for the bit about the cockroach.
My travel-avoidant DH (yes, he's the one who wanted to be a diplomat since he was little) is actually excited about our trip to Egypt this fall.
Actually, another friend just went to Egypt for R&R, but to a Red Sea resort. This is the one who had a grenade tossed at her house. I asked if she'd gotten bored waiting for her house to be bombed and had gone to one of the places most likely to be blown up to get some action. She's a single mother, so it was her, her daughter, and the nanny, and apparently passport control gave them some grief about where their husbands were. @@
It couldn't be a prettier day here. Just beautiful. However, an old woman stopped me in the street and said "Is today Friday? It was..." Having to tell her it's Saturday made me a little sad.