A Typical Autumn Day.

Roberto Matta.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Matta 

The weather today has been a typical autumn day, overcast sky and pretty gloomy most of the day especially the end of the afternoon.

Our dogs are very happy as Richie took them up to the Amsterdam Forest at lunchtime today is really made their day.

Right now Richie is making us a delicious late meal, it smells delicious and I know that he is making several dishes.

There is going to be a Tempe curry, yard long beans in coconut, dal, basmati rice and Richie freshly made hot chilli pickle which is seasoned with lime juice and fresh coriander leaves.

The cooking aroma is drifting into the bedroom from the kitchen and I can hardly contain my impatience because I want to eat this lovely dinner right now.

It's been an enjoyable day, which is about to get even better with my Darling Richie is wonderful food.

Time now find another piece of artwork by my favourite surrealist artist from Chile Roberto Matta after which I suppose this I look forward to our dinner.

A Pleasant Visit

Roberto Matta. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Matta

Today began cold, in fact because of cold that I woke up; Richie agreed and immediately closed windows.

This initially helped me go to sleep again, only to wake me up again because it was so cold in bedroom.

Richie put the central heating on, which was quite amazing thing to be doing on 31 August, especially as over a week ago we were having a heat wave.

After Richie came back from taking the dogs round the block he said it was just like October outside, were people wearing coats and scarves.

This afternoon I had a pleasant visit with Anne came around at 14.00, she looked wonderfully relaxed after her holiday in Italy with her son.

It was nice to see her and to see her holiday photos, she and her lovely son, Okhai seemed to be having a wonderful time in a beautiful location.

She brought some delicious filled rolls from the Surinam sandwich shop, hot spicy Tempe for Richie, for herself hot spicy prawns and I had hot spicy saltfish.

The rolls were delicious and even more so with some added hot pepper sauce made with scotch bonnets, the best hot pepper I think.

All too soon Anne had to leave she promised to come back soon which would be very nice as it is good to see people especially friends.

When Richie was about to leave with the dogs to go to the Park we noticed that the thick cloud cover had vanished and had been replaced by beautiful blue skies and sunshine.

October for most of the day and back to being August at 18.00, I don't think it got any warmer because the breeze coming in through the window is quite cool.

I've been enjoying the sunshine and blue skies which has been a really pretty sight to see at the end of the day.

An Enjoyable Day Despite The Weather.

Roberto Matta
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Matta

Today's weather is such a contrast to how it was last week Saturday, then it was a scorching hot day with temperatures above 35°.

We have had occasional glimpses of tiny bits of blue sky, which quickly changed to thick cloud cover and torrential rain.

Richie told me that when he went out around 11 o'clock this morning it was pleasantly warm outside despite how it looked.

Which was like an April day and not a day in August, I hope that Richie was safe from the downpour of rain inside the Turkish shop where he went to do the shopping.

I'm looking forward to him coming back laden with goodies, hopefully there will be a lovely selection of soft fruits, as well as delicious Turkish soft goats cheese.

Angela brought a couple of tins of hard cod’s roe, which Richie is going to make some delicious Greek taramasalata with, something I like very much.

He says that he will also make some Greek humus and to go with both, there will be roasted vegetables, aubergine, paprika, garlic as well salad and cubes of Tempe, Tofu and Turkish flatbread.

It sounds like a delicious meal I would love to eat it right now; Richie got back from his shopping expedition and managed to avoid the rain which is brilliant.

I was so happy when Richie walked in; it was lovely to see him, as soon as the apartment door opened the dogs went wild with excitement at seeing him again.

They all started running around and playing with their toys to show Richie and me what lovely dogs they are.

Despite the constant pain and discomfort I slept well last night and did not have such a bad time waking up as I usually do.

Now I'm going to stop writing and choose a picture from Roberto Matta, a wonderful surrealist artist from Chile, then I can relax.                                                                              

Another Cool Day.

Georges Lemmen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lemmen


Had a disturbed night last night, it rained all night and the orange flags hung up for the World Cup flapped noisily all night in the high winds.

Richie got me some THC at 3.30 when I was woke, this helped me fall asleep again and I slept until 8.30 when the cold woke me up.

As soon as Richie closed the window I managed to fall asleep again and slept again for another hour and a half.

Not bad another hour and a half especially without extra THC, once the temperature went up I had no problem sleeping.

Good not to be harassed by all the pain right away and managing to drift off again, I could have slept longer but I made myself wake up when I did.

Last night Richie made jerk chicken for Nur and me, he had jerk Tempe and we all feasted on baked sweet potatoes, rice and peas (black eye peas) coco (cornmeal and okra) and salad.

A delicious meal and after dinner we watched England v Algeria, while we had hoped that England would not do well and were rooting for Algeria, we were not prepared for them being as bad as they were.

It was a nothing performance from players who are better, than they seemed last night, maybe it is good this happened.

England like to think they are the best when they are in reality just average with a few very good players, hope that last night helps them to become better.

After all these moments can be helpful in indentifying what needs working on, they should be glad they have the chance to learn and adapt and grow.

Today it is noticeably cooler, we had the heating on at 10 am to warm up which was very welcome indeed funny heating on in June as tomorrow could be 30 degrees again.

Going to drink some freshly squeezed orange juice and eat a delicious Pakistani mango, the best mangos.

Then its off for a shower and a titivate and we will be ready to watch the Netherlands v and enjoy the day despite weather.