I'm back from work and taking a little break from studying in order to take a photo of it! The astute among you may think this somewhat resembles a shopping list. As part of this module, I have to plan a meal and consider what could be homegrown etc... Oh what ridiculous hoops to jump through!
Today's photo is inspired from a passage I read yesterday in The Novel in the Viola:
"It was the first day since the war began that I had been almost happy. It was fleeting and, even while I laughed, I knew the feeling could not last. But during those hours, I enjoyed moments of pleasure strung together like beads along a string, so that they formed something like happiness. It was neither content nor ease, but it was something and I was glad."
It seems appropriate to post about an Austrian Jew during WWII today, Yom HaShoah starts tonight at sundown. Holocaust Remembrance Day.
I worked quite hard today. Got lots of important things done. But, all the time I was in the kitchen, I was distracted by the glorious sunshine streaming over the very green grass. There came a point, of course, when I could resist no longer. Jobs coming to a natural pause, I grabbed a cardigan, a blanket, my book and my camera. I don't normally enjoy contemporary fiction, but Natasha Solomons has captured some part of me. I lay on the blanket, ignoring the hedge-shadow creeping ever closer. And, when I couldn't ignore it anymore, sat up on the blanket and wrapped myself in it and I read and read and read.
Z and I went to the theatre today, my birthday gift to him. We watched Rumpelstiltskin and then had a hot chocolate, here he is licking his finger having given his hot chocolate a good stir!
