Stranger in Reading
Nov 21 2008
HIF: Did you enjoy your holiday in Italy?
Wendy: yes
HIF: are you all fresco’d out?
Wendy: yes
The Piccolomini library in Siena was outstanding, fabulous books, floor tiles, wall frescos, ceiling frescos, quiet ambience, excellent lighting and virtually no other visitors.
write the first thought on All fresco’d out
Nov 16 2008
The driver smokes a short filterless cigarette, awaits a passenger.
Not any passenger.
Not Flat Eric.
A passenger from a windowless room.
We passby, missing the passenger emerge, missing the small car leave.
write the first thought on departures
Nov 14 2008
Stylish wheels in Florence with low environmental impact enable the locals to surrepticiously pass by large and well protected
glass
4 of your thoughts on wheels
Nov 13 2008
In a small Siena courtyard the walls mimic windows,
forgetting to mimic shutters or reflections.
Silence and darkness within the windowless rooms.
Protecting the people within from too much colour, too much light, noises from neighbours and the street, from the prying eyes of passersby.
In the silent darkness occupants can float on siestas unseen, unknown.
Freedom to dream of the luxuries of everything and nothing
1 inspirational thought about behind the imitation window
Nov 12 2008
dusty dry cold rigid fox deftly holding a long-dead bird in yellowed teeth.
Rustic pane
3 of your thoughts on rustic pane
Oct 16 2008
What is the best 45th birthday present for a Wendy? A four day weekend in Siena with spottydog as
Excitedness levels have already reached amber. Spotty dog has cunningly avoided booking through the recently defunct XL, travelling at ridiculous hours of the day, waiting at transport interchanges for silly, silly, times and other such icky nonsense.
4 of your thoughts on Siena 45
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