I've done four loads of laundry tidied and vacuumed , packed and unpacked trying to take the absolute minimum. NOT easy

Packing for 3 days in London , 5 in Canterbury and 3 at Rancho Collapso. Will it be hot or will the heatwave break ? Anything could happen. Hard to imagine cool weather when it is boiling hot and vice versa.

Jolly punky girl with many piercings came to pick up Ina's flat keys that were given to me to pass on. The PRIDE parade is on Saturday and Punky Girl and friends have come in from the countryside to watch , all excited.. much excitement. Last year PRIDE was fun and very colourful.

Lots to remember.

Started the day by paying bills and phoning telephone company. Success. Got 55 kr knocked off the monthly bill. Thank you very much

I'm feeling really tired now , Too tired to write . Peace zzzzzzzzzzzz will check in tomorrow . NIght night

A lovely hot and sunny Sunday. Stayed close to home today mainly on the balcony. Took my sewing out there - the bits that needed hand sewing.

It was like a sauna. Drank lots of water and watched the sweat pouring off me. A lovely way to detox. The skin does all the work so the kidneys get a bit of a rest

Ate light meals , fresh fruit smoothies and then garlic prawns in the evening after which a shower and into town to pick up my train tickets for tomorrow.

I'm going on the big train to Katrineholm and then bus 405 and ask to be put off between "Fagermon" ( fair mon ) and "Skogen" ( the woods ) where A-S should be watching out for the bus to flag it down in case the driver forgets.

A couple of days in the country in the middle of nowhere. Two days without the computer or the internet among the flowers, trees, birds and bees and possibly one or two nature beings.

Back on Wednesday take care and mind how ya go
xx

I wonder if it is Jupiter ?

According to the fantastic link that La_Spice sent ,( Stellarium ) that first star to appear in the sky as seem from my south facing balcony could be Jupiter, Pluto or Juno

Junowot ? .. I still don't know

x

It's a lovely balmy evening , anyway

It is GLORIOUS today hot and sunny I wish my balcony was bigger to accommodate a sun lounge chair.

I'm sitting on my ancient scrubbed pine chairs , wrapped in only a sarong , hair pinned up and off my face , feet up on the other chair and sweat pouring down my face. I love it. Don't mind sweating. All home comforts within easy reach.

Started reading " Women who run with the wolves " and the fairy tale about the girl with no hands. Gruesome tale until you start to look at it through the eyes of symbols and archetypes.

Mrs Pide landed on the balcony rail. We sat looking at each other for a while. She wanted to go to her nest under the plant pot stand in the corner behind me, but as I am now occupying the greater part of the space , she spent a long time debating
a) Is the landing strip big enough ?
b) Dare I land ..after all.. he big person is there.

Well, fly down and land she did and took her habitual place in the nest ontop of the plant pot under the plant pot stand

So there we are co-existing

I'm going back out there again tarra

hehehe

Woke up this morning in a lazy mood. A drifting down the river on a hot and sultry fragrant sunny summer's day sort of mood.

Melancholy, but not is a sad way. A pensive, reflective, contemplative , day dreamy sort of way.

The past is a familiar place. Cosy. Been there, done that. Safe. A lingering aftertaste to indulge in , before moving on

I think it is Venus, the evening star and morning star. I watched it appear in the south at 10pm while the sky was still light blue. It has since moved westwards or towards the right. It looks more like a thin crescent than a star.

Today was really hot , it must have been about 28 C and my balcony was like a sauna. I love it.

Anway , time for bed - can't seem to keep my eyes open

I wish sometimes that I was able to thread a pipe-cleaner ,or similar, through one ear and out the other to clean out the itch that is impossible to get at and drives you insane with the worst kind of itchy torture.grrrrrrrr

I don't know why it happens, but suspect it is to do with an allergy of some kind , possibly breathing in a bit of fluff or swallowing a fly while asleep ? Whatever...... a damn nuisance. I've taken antihistamines now, and the " attack" is over. Could this be what tylluanpenry would call a psychic attack ?

4am to 5am ..whatever ....... back to bed

HISTORIA DE UN LETRERO (THE STORY OF A SIGN)

This film by Alonso Alvarez Barreda "Historia de un Letrero "(The Story of a Sign) produced in Mexico/U.S.A.and was the winner of the NFB Online Competition Cannes 2008

P.S. The sign in Spanish says " Have compassion, I am blind, "

My Oyster card arrived today along with leaflets and brochures , thanks to my sister How kind ! Bless.

I'm looking forward to using it but admit to being a little nervous , as with all first times

Feet that is ... ouch Sought out the orthopedic shop that I was referred to for my wonky ankle. Alas not much joy there. Spent over an hour trying different things out , non of which seemed to help. I was so hopeful too. Disappointing Came out with a a sort of elastic bandage with two loops . Slip loop over toes and the over and under and round the ankle and then finally second loop goes over toes again Took me a while to get it right. Support yes , but not a solution. I suspect there may be a broken or cracked bone somewhere Will phone the doc tomorrow . Limping around is not much fun.

In other news - GLORIOUS hot and sunny day here. Had my lunch in front of Stadshuset overlooking the water and watching bus loads of Russian and Japanese tourists .

Now MacLappy and I are on the balcony as the sun goes down and it is getting cooler. Dinner was yummy - spinach and feta cheese pastries with tomato salad and a glass of chilled vin blanc. Just the thing. How was your day ? :Wave:

Happy Birthday , Doralene.
http://doralene.blog.co.uk/

May your heart and soul be filled to the brim with joy !

(((hugs ))))

From the Triple Goddess:

Fill my heart with Love, that my every teardrop may become a star. –Hazrat Inayat Khan

It is a very good practice to stand up with arms reaching toward the heavens in the shape of a chalice. Imagine you are being filled with the elixir of divine love. Let the radiant light of Aphrodite pour into your heart. You will find that people cannot resist you, for the joy that emanates from your loving demeanor is both healing and contagious. Light a candle in your home symbolizing the purity of love you wish to share with the world.

http://www.ishalerner.com/home/is1/reading_goddess_main.html

"A part of you has grown in me. And so you see, it's you and me together forever; and never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart."

this made me chuckle

Ahem

Some people feel a strong urge to build , create , become involved, achieve, make an impact upon the world.....Others , after the natural expansion that comes with growing up has run its course , lead an outwardly unremarkable, seemingly more passive and relatively uneventful existance.......

......In past ages they have been called contemplatives. There is no place, it seems , in our contemporary civilization. On the arising new earth , however , their role is just as vital as that of the creators, the doers , the reformers. Their function is to anchor the frequency of the new consciousness on this planet. I call them frequency-holders. They are to generate consciousness through the activities of daily life , through their interactions with others as well as throug " just being ".

In this way they endow the seemingly insignificant with profound meaning. Their task is to bring spacious stillness into this world by being absolutely present in whatever they do. There is consciousness and therefore quality in what they do, even the simplest task. Their purpose is to do everything in a sacred manner. As each human being is an integral part pf the collective human cansciousness, they affect the world much more deeply than is visible on the surface of their lives.

-- Eckhart Tolle in " A New Earth . Awakening to your life's purpose."

Finally , someone who understands !!!

Had a physiotherapy session today. Foot is feeling wonky again. Fredrik played around with it trying to suss out what the problem was and I now have a referral to one of those orthopedic places for an ankle brace or some kind of support !

Just had a quick google and see that there is a world of support out there It all costs though

Sun is peeping through the clouds now after a right downpour, thunder and lightning.

The sewing machine is still out. I've unearthed more fabrics that I didn't know I had and paper patterns. With some patterns you need to add seams , some you don't. Some are the wrong size and I can't be bothered with alterations. Iron needed to smooth out paper patterns as well as fabric... snip , snip .....careful....cut on the fold....zig zag edges,thread needles ...remember right sides together .... Chaos reigns for another few days till I've got this out of my system and hopefully some new clothes to wear. I hate shopping for clothes.. hence the "bohemian" look

Break over .... hope you are enjoying your Monday

One of the advantages of being single is sharing my big bed with books. Inspiration at every turn should insomnia strike; it seldom does. I sleep surrounded by books and my journal so that I can catch a thought or dream by its tail and write it down as soon as it happens.

On waking this morning " The Power of Now " by Eckhart Tolle opened up as I picked it up and I read :

"Picking up "The Power of Now" again , reading and taking it in , all new and fresh in the moment. I notice I got the book 6 years ago, 2002. How time flies.

" Wherever you are, be there totally .....Waiting is a state of mind . Basically it means that you want the future : you don't want the present.You don't want what you've got.

With every kind of waiting you unconsciously create inner conflict between your here and now,where you don't want to be ,and the projected future , where you want to be . This greatly reduces the quality of your life by making you lose the present."
-- Eckhart Tolle

" So next time someone says 'sorry to have kept you waiting ' you can reply " That's all right . I wasn't waiting . I was just standing here enjoying myself - in joy in my self."

--Eckhart Tolle

No more waiting

I'm simply here and now

Sorry Meno , couldn't bring you a Hagabulle ( cardemon and cinnamon bun ) 'cos they hadn't baked any this weekend. WOT ? WHY NOT ? I inquired. " It's because the weatherman said it would be pouring down this weekend , so we didn't bake any ". Silly weather experts - what do they know ? This particular cafe is only open when it is fine. Anyway , I can share a bit of my walk with you

Strange flowers . What can they be ?


wild strawberries

Koppartälten

A carpet of dainty summer flowers

It's so much better if you use the criteria of how it feels than
whether you are right or wrong.

Then you begin to realize there is no actual fact about anything.

In other words, EVERYBODY is right, because what ever they believe,
Law of Attraction brings it to them.

- Abraham-Hicks -

It's a bit like " what you see is what you get " and " what you focus on , grows "

Still waking up ... *yawn and stretch *

Was I tired last night !

Came back from the picnic with the story tellers around 7.30 , ravenous for real food, I put the oven on as soon as I get in, pour myself a glass of Italian red and set about scrubbing and slicing potatoes , chopping onions , garlic and mushrooms. All the ingredients then go into my big cast iron pan, one by one with some olive oil to pre- cook before going into the oven to cook through and brown on top for about half an hour.

Meanwhile ,I put my feet up, sip my wine and watch a short film called " Carnival" about a group of travelling entertainers who arrive at a small town in Colorado , I think, The whole thing takes place about a hundred years ago. Small town mentality and clappy happy jesus people ..." praise the lord " and miracle fake faith healing

This keeps me happy while my meal is cooking in the oven. I then scoff my meal (which really hits the spot and is absolutely yummy) have another glass of wine and start to watch this really weird and slow-moving film called " broken pink flowers " or something like that. It is a bit retro and as I said before ,slow moving so I am fighting to stay awake, but want to know what happens. Nothing much does happen though Disappointing . The film ends and I summon up enough energy to crawl into bed.

Beautiful inspired dreams of painting and producing works of art.

For some reason I feel that the 19th July 2008 is significant and important. I may have read about it in an astrology report or prediction of some kind. Anyway, now I am obsessed with this date and it being important in some way. A time when portals of opportunity are wide open. A day for being clear about what you want and desire, because what you think and intend has a good chance of manifesting today.

My dream last night had a nightmarish quality to it; intriguing rather than terrifying.A psychopath with a gun appears and takes me to a Stups like building with lots of high steps. Together we climb up but I stop about 3/4 of the way up and he goes up to the top on his own where he occupies the premises in a gentle sort of way. He's not violent but exudes assertiveness and control.

Down at the bottom, I hear that taxi driver's wont give me a lift because they have seen me together with this man and are now afraid of me.

Two women in the dream are also afraid of this chap. I seee them in a room trying to cover themselves with blankets.

Another woman fills in a form for me which I take to an office and they give me a wad of money which I stuff in my sock ( ) and later hide about my person , somewhere else.

Some people in the supermarket feed me soup by the spoonful,( a loving spooful ) as they feel that I need to be nourished.

All in all an interesting captivating dream. Freud would , no doubt have a field day

Must get a move on - supposed to be meeting friends for a picnic in Haga Park at 2 pm

Toodle pip .. have a grand Saturday