Today was A Very Nice Day, spent with people I love. (NSM with the Enviromentalism, though.)
Mum and Dad and I went to The Four Seasons for the jazz brunch - eating sushi, and poached pears with watercress, and all manner of other mouth-watering goodies while listening to most excellent improvisations on familiar jazz standards and looking out across the Nile.
NOT sucky. And The Four Seasons is far and away the poshest hotel I've ever been in in my life. Crazy.
And then through the chaotic back streets of Cairo in a rattletrap black'n'white cab, to the Ibn Toulon mosque, the oldest mosque in Cairo, and then to the Gayer Anderson House next door. There are fantastic legends about the Gayer Anderson House (aka The House of the Cretan Woman). I may just have to go and do some research, because it really could be the basis for a genre novel...amorous wells and the Sultan of Bats and all manner of fascinating things.
And we
were
going to hit the Citadel this evening to catch the Sufi show, but my dad's feeling a wee bit under the weather. So instead we spent the evening drinking mint tea and smoking sheesha in a fabulously OTT courtyard before heading upstairs for delicious dinner.
I wish you all days of equal niceness.
Also, I'm at work! She's home with Joe!!
I figured. But also figured that you were more likely to wander in here than he was.
It's completely adorable.
He had NO IDEA. I just called him and told him. He says sorry.
He says sorry.
Why? It was funny. I was going to call back and give a heads up, but I figured that meant I wouldn't get a third call.
See, next thing she's going to be calling up Mal and Tickybox and Kara and Owen and Annabel and all the other Buffistalets, and they'll be planning World Domination before you know it.
thinks
No, 'kay, Kara will be recruiting them to help her with World Domination, in the position of Honoured Minions.
Hee, that is so cute. Mastering the skills a princess needs and so young!
sj, I love the light fixture in your study. I think the apartment is worth it just for that.
Fay had the best day. but Ithink Em might have had the second best.
And I figgered it was fate cause I missed the first call but the voicemail starts with, "There's nobody more in tune with motorsports..."
Fate.
First prank call? This goes in her baby book.
Can't believe I missed drunen Maria. Stoopid sleeping.
Sorry, Trudy. As a truely minor consolation, you're here for drunken Calli. Well, fairly drunken. I'm on my third G&T, but it really doesn't take much with me and I'm not really sparing the G part of the equation.
While in the nursery today I got to hear the person in front of me go on about the snakes she found in her truckload of mulch. Snakes in a Truck! It's sort of the NC version of Snakes on a Plane. I thought of sharing this idea with her, but decided not to. Silly really. If I'd had gin at the time I'm sure I would have.
