We were in a heat wave which finally broke. This coming week will be ‘just’ warm as opposed to high temps (for here), very very high pollen count, and high humidity. Loads of weird white cottony stuff floating around.
Happy summer solstice. Marked it with sundaes.
I had been mostly wearing SIP Magazine Street in the heat. Rather perfect. But then shifted to Annick Goutal Ninfeo Meo with its weird mossiness.
My jasmine is starting to bloom and smells incredible, wafting through the kitchen window early morning and in the evening. Oddly, the neighbour’s orange blossom is mad blooming this year but I can’t smell it.
So, a bit more ‘culta’.
I recently finished The Salt Path which is now out as a film with several people I have no desire to watch for a couple of hours (ie, Gillian Anderson). Someone I know said she’d seen it and fulsomely recommended (though she did say, “it’s very British”), so I had a go.
The book is short and mostly well worth reading. Every once in a while she made me cringe, but that might just be me.
It follows a middle aged couple whose life fell apart. They ended up walking the South West Coast Path (I’ve done a bit of the path plus I live near where it passes in this area; https://www.southwestcoastpath.org.uk/ if you’re curious) which is part of paths all around the coast of the UK. Meaning you can walk around the whole perimeter.
What’s great about the book is that mostly the author manages to give a unsentimental sense of how things went pear-shaped, how she made stupid big mistakes about things in the runup to the pear-shaped, and how things then unfolded till they started to come right again.
And, there’s a very interesting aspect regarding health and how orthodox medicine can sometimes be so very rigid and get things very wrong.
Anyway, IMHO, very worth a look – and as noted above it’s short. Under 200 pages.
The other thing that really got me was the Oscar winning animated film Flow.
Boy, is it incredible. Beautifully done, almost no speech (unless you include animal and nature noises), a relevant, interesting premise.
Seriously, if you haven’t seen it definitely worth your time.
Just an aside: it appears that fancy jelly sandals are all the rage this year, going for hundreds of dollars. I remember my pair from way back when bought for $5 which lasted a whole summer…
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