Run rabbit,run!

A detail from a wall of the Thistle Chapel.

A day full of

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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...

Christmas in Poland - last leg of the journey - Krakow

To combine the best of both worlds I decided to book my flight back from Krakow, so that I would be able to visit my friends there too. I stayed with my best friend but also one of my favourite cooperators and models - Monika. Of couse we spent the whole time chatting. Unfortunately she was not feeling very well so her husband Piotr went out with me on a walk entitled 'a tourist in your own city'. Well, I haven't been to Krakow for almost a year so some things I did are fully understandable: I took a picture of me next to a monument of Piotr Skrzynecki. In the Vis a Vis bar behind me, there was one of the staff members of the photolab where I was a regular (at least once a week) visitor and who clearly was surprised at my actions - this is a thing only tourists do! Well, I am kind of one now...

I have also realised that I am posing for this picture (courtesy of Piotr) in exactly the same manner as my mum does for her tourist pics...

It was also nice to meet again with Marcin designs for Teatr Stary. We would need you here in Edinburgh too!

Monika and Piotr by me at the airport couple of hours after pictures above were taken. I hope I will be able to see you soon in Scotland. Luckily my flight was only 2 hours late. I was reading Chopin letters so I did not even noticed.