Spring continues apace, and I saw celandines in flower yesterday. There is a blackbird singing even now on K's bedroom windowsill, where it is accustomed to perch. If you're careful, you can tweak the curtains apart and watch it, inches away.Eventually I suppose I'll have to ditch the arrangement of last year's poppies and dried flowers from the kitchen, but it does look nice, and is extremely low-maintenance. K added some origami cranes, which go rather well.
I like origami, and used to do a lot of it. It is also a useful way of spending time in exams when you've run out of things to write, I have found, which is perhaps gives you some idea of my degree of academic attainment.
One thing I didn't do much of was the stuff in this book, Kokigami. It contains figures which are supposed to adorn penises, such as this squid:
...the book was a Christmas present from someone to whom I am sort-of-related, a few years back. She expressed a hope that I would be broad-minded about it.
My then partner and I looked at the book with incredulity, and ....burned it. Never mind what Heinrich Heine said, sometimes you've just got to burn something.
I remember you writing about the Kokigami before. What strange relatives you have.
ReplyDeleteWe have blossom, especially the fruit trees across the road.
O lord, I did, didn't I? -I sometimes worry about my memory.
ReplyDeleteBlossom is happening here too, as I saw yesterday. I most like the dawn chorus, though, as I'm up so early and hear it from the beginning
I'm amazed that I remembered it! I just go with the flow as regards memory nowadays. It annoys everyone else though.
ReplyDeleteI love that moment at the beginning of the day when all the birds 'start up'. There was a lovely moon this morning when I opened the shutters at the back of the house. Still very cold, but spring is in the air.