Another fantastically inspiring, useful delightful post thank you. I think the mymind app will dramatically change my life! Will be recommending it to friends. Will be heading to Rory Stewart’s book sounds like a bit of antidote for how things are. Totally agree with the over styling both home & self - I subscribe to Kate but delighted to be introduced to Jolain Muller. Thanks again. I too had been thinking about the crab… what a horror. The loss at the time & the aftermath…first world problems & all that. Loved the pictures too.
... you've inspired to get out my cowboy boots. They are navy blue, with wonderful stitching and are Italian. I walked past them in a shop window every day on my way to the Bologna Book fair (hellish...) and they were calling to me. VERY expensive on my salary at the time but they are still lovely.
Agree that the 'Honest Toil' Greek Olive Oil makes a lovely gift - the bottle version has eye-catching artwork! I bought two as gifts and one for myself! ;-)
1. re: 2nd language. My French is pretty terrible (I can only get by a couple of sentences in Paris before people clock me for an English speaker), but I've noticed that I have a different personality in each of my cultures (UK and US), and it's not even language-dependent. And when I do have opportunity to speak French for longer periods, so that it actually gets good, I do notice a personality emerging. I always wonder about the other personalities of my English-as-2nd-language friends too. Is it that original language (or culture apparently) self is the true self and the 2nd is a mask? Is it that we just contain all of these parts to ourselves and the different language brings them out? (things I think about over my morning cuppa).
2. Mymind- I'm blown away. I use Pocket currently and always get so frustrated that it's not organised, and that I can't find anything. THANK YOU! Finally something I'm pleased about with AI.
3. Cowboy boots. I started horseing here in the US, and it's all Western style (something I was actually gutted about bc I wanted the shiny black knee-high boots), and had to stop because I couldn't STAND how constricted my feet felt in cowboy boots! They look so cool... and I have such wide feet that I spent all my time trotting thinking about my feet. They are definitely so practical for the country though.
VIRULENTLY against lifestyle delights tucked away, strong ever ooomphy opinions on Living!
I notice too often how different I seem speaking Turkish and know my excuse for inadequate vocabulary I put up to my family there in Istanbul who all spoke English. Helpers often have functional Turkish just like me and tell me I speak well, which is untrue, it is laziness for studying so much that when I know the word it just sounds too unreasonable, where some spot on and short, like Turks on horseback shouting to one another in only 2-3 syllable words! SO I have become a pet and a pal to most, something alien to me when wanting to express news about health, vitamins, food, politics, antiquity or olives…knowing I am seriously not up to it, so that humor laced with sarcasm is uses. I mean I get along perfectly in the functional, can call at 20:00 and get the plane at 23:00 from Istanbul to Izmir and have the Avis car ready there to drive to village…..but sit at dinner!?, I’d rather serve it.
Cowgirl Boots! recently my girls went to the Boot Barn in Tucson and grands too all for Belts and Boots, I get it, realllllly great, recall my red ones, but now love my shortish gray Wellies with owls looking out for me, mud and all.
End of Yellowstone for us came just at Thanksgiving and I had to apologize after the prayer someone said that we should endeavor to have a meal without “F… Me y’all’s, this corn puddin the best I eva made!” Then the gravy the tart-sweet cranberry relish, pecan pie, tart apple pie with only Granny Smiths…….Ms INDIA, wonderful letters to use and amuse our spirits, Thank You
Oooh - I still have a pair of lovely golden brown cowboy boots bought near Denver, Wyoming, about 30 years ago…while on my way to a dude ranch stay in Montana.
I also happen to be bilingual - brought up in France but went to the same boarding school and spent more than half my life since in the US then UK. I am a different person depending on the language I am « in », which is quite discombobulating sometimes.
And thank you for the recommendations- Valadon is now on my to-do list, while the Rory book is on my shopping list.
I think about my bilingual identities daily. I'm so much nicer in Swedish and I have no idea why. Will return many times to click on all the link bits. Happy writing!
Thank you for the mention of the cormorants - they are still there, but not with such a fetching background! I wish I could go to the Suzanne Valadon, I bet it is marvellous. And do tell us about the crab, it has been bothering me too.
Another fantastically inspiring, useful delightful post thank you. I think the mymind app will dramatically change my life! Will be recommending it to friends. Will be heading to Rory Stewart’s book sounds like a bit of antidote for how things are. Totally agree with the over styling both home & self - I subscribe to Kate but delighted to be introduced to Jolain Muller. Thanks again. I too had been thinking about the crab… what a horror. The loss at the time & the aftermath…first world problems & all that. Loved the pictures too.
The unsolved mystery of the crab! Where can it have been?!?
Glad it’s gone now though. Thanks for all the lovely links especially to Jessica Fellows substack which I’m really enjoying.
... you've inspired to get out my cowboy boots. They are navy blue, with wonderful stitching and are Italian. I walked past them in a shop window every day on my way to the Bologna Book fair (hellish...) and they were calling to me. VERY expensive on my salary at the time but they are still lovely.
Agree that the 'Honest Toil' Greek Olive Oil makes a lovely gift - the bottle version has eye-catching artwork! I bought two as gifts and one for myself! ;-)
https://honest-toil.co.uk/collections/products/products/500ml-extra-virgin-olive-oil
1. re: 2nd language. My French is pretty terrible (I can only get by a couple of sentences in Paris before people clock me for an English speaker), but I've noticed that I have a different personality in each of my cultures (UK and US), and it's not even language-dependent. And when I do have opportunity to speak French for longer periods, so that it actually gets good, I do notice a personality emerging. I always wonder about the other personalities of my English-as-2nd-language friends too. Is it that original language (or culture apparently) self is the true self and the 2nd is a mask? Is it that we just contain all of these parts to ourselves and the different language brings them out? (things I think about over my morning cuppa).
2. Mymind- I'm blown away. I use Pocket currently and always get so frustrated that it's not organised, and that I can't find anything. THANK YOU! Finally something I'm pleased about with AI.
3. Cowboy boots. I started horseing here in the US, and it's all Western style (something I was actually gutted about bc I wanted the shiny black knee-high boots), and had to stop because I couldn't STAND how constricted my feet felt in cowboy boots! They look so cool... and I have such wide feet that I spent all my time trotting thinking about my feet. They are definitely so practical for the country though.
VIRULENTLY against lifestyle delights tucked away, strong ever ooomphy opinions on Living!
I notice too often how different I seem speaking Turkish and know my excuse for inadequate vocabulary I put up to my family there in Istanbul who all spoke English. Helpers often have functional Turkish just like me and tell me I speak well, which is untrue, it is laziness for studying so much that when I know the word it just sounds too unreasonable, where some spot on and short, like Turks on horseback shouting to one another in only 2-3 syllable words! SO I have become a pet and a pal to most, something alien to me when wanting to express news about health, vitamins, food, politics, antiquity or olives…knowing I am seriously not up to it, so that humor laced with sarcasm is uses. I mean I get along perfectly in the functional, can call at 20:00 and get the plane at 23:00 from Istanbul to Izmir and have the Avis car ready there to drive to village…..but sit at dinner!?, I’d rather serve it.
Cowgirl Boots! recently my girls went to the Boot Barn in Tucson and grands too all for Belts and Boots, I get it, realllllly great, recall my red ones, but now love my shortish gray Wellies with owls looking out for me, mud and all.
End of Yellowstone for us came just at Thanksgiving and I had to apologize after the prayer someone said that we should endeavor to have a meal without “F… Me y’all’s, this corn puddin the best I eva made!” Then the gravy the tart-sweet cranberry relish, pecan pie, tart apple pie with only Granny Smiths…….Ms INDIA, wonderful letters to use and amuse our spirits, Thank You
Oooh - I still have a pair of lovely golden brown cowboy boots bought near Denver, Wyoming, about 30 years ago…while on my way to a dude ranch stay in Montana.
I also happen to be bilingual - brought up in France but went to the same boarding school and spent more than half my life since in the US then UK. I am a different person depending on the language I am « in », which is quite discombobulating sometimes.
And thank you for the recommendations- Valadon is now on my to-do list, while the Rory book is on my shopping list.
Thank you Thank you! Also that article from Colm Toibin is so good
The question of language identities is fascinating! More on that, please, sometime!
See, I’ve been longing for cowboys since Yellowstone ended. This is permission. 👢
I think about my bilingual identities daily. I'm so much nicer in Swedish and I have no idea why. Will return many times to click on all the link bits. Happy writing!
I apologize to inanimate objects when I accidentally bump into them. “oh, sorry, desk chair”
Ha, was going to ask about the crab situation! Decent result.
In haste - NO CRAB located, but also NO SMELL anymore.
Thank you for the mention of the cormorants - they are still there, but not with such a fetching background! I wish I could go to the Suzanne Valadon, I bet it is marvellous. And do tell us about the crab, it has been bothering me too.
Thank you so much for my mind. Have also been fretting about crab.