My only plant

I am a plant killer.

I usually strangle them with overwhelming affection and with too much watering. Therefore I was seriously surprised that my Christmas pland managed to survive and was doing really well! I have not have an idea what plant it is (any clues?). I bougth it more than a year ago and was planning to actually get rid of it some time if it got really bad and simply died but to my surprise the plant started to blossom again last week!
Would it be the Spring arriving?

Here it is in a disguise of a Christmas tree and how it looks a year later:

And a zoom to it's beautiful flower!

Run rabbit,run!

A detail from a wall of the Thistle Chapel.

A day full of

...
blog updates
coffee
high heels
pasta cooking
Florence and the Machine
adverts designing
waiting for Spring
plant watching
^ more of it later...

Out of the gloom

Today's news is that Britain is officially out of recession and frankly I am already sick with Radio 4 repeating it all day long as well as when they were speading doom and gloom a year ago.

During our casual morning in a local cafe (the one on the other side of the road) while reading their copy of the Guardian I came accross an interview with a theatre director in London who said that one thing he hates about his job is realising that all in all, he earns less than a 19 year old shop assistant.

Ah well, a consolation came from one of my favourite websites (one of the links on the right) with a quote from Christo's biography:

Error: "The easy life of an artist"



Not quite so. Until 2006 Christo was working an average of 17 hours a day – 7 days a week. These days, he works and average of 13 hours a day. Jeanne-Claude is a bit lazier, only 10 hours a day.

They do not take vacations.

More here.

To cheer us up

Sexy breakfast:

Sexy breakfast after:

Ok, back to work...

In the heights of a winter blues

Yesterday was apparently the most depressing day of Winter. It showed in Edinburgh, with some Dickensian atmosphere courtesy of fog and wet air. We are up to our ears in work though all we want is to stay in bed, wrapped up and reading adventures of Sherlock Holmes which I got from a local second hand bookshop for £6. It has original illustrations from the magazine edition so it is a real treat.

It is all eaten now

So all we have now is this...