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salmonid voracity [ahem]

tessa kiros has got a lot to answer for, as does nigella. they make us drool, right? does that happen to you? now i'm staying at l's, we've been like cats with two tails. l's gravad lax is a wonder, i've boasted about it before. what she is doing to a salmon tail! oh boy. you better try it at home, if you're a salmon lover, ànd a lazy cook. because this sea baby just needs a quick turn four consecutive days and you're done. and then you'll eat it, you'll ravish it, what am i saying, DEVOUR it. so catch that fish and follow the lead (recipe E/recept NL, as promised). this being excellent party food, gravlax will make your festive holidays sparkle, (as much so as your guests).

corner view ≈ taking a different perspective

imagine an old dictionary you find in a thrift shop, and you tear it up.



you collect the images in a box, for future reference

with vintage stamps you make a whole new showroom of stools that would make doctor zhivago blush (i promise! i don't know where he pops from!)

you open up a box of tea bags while humming lara's theme, and you simply do not want to break up the order of things; you just want to stare at it? 

you're walking a cold winter's day off your thermal boots and your eye gets drawn to a new (imaginative!) world map of broken tree sticks and dying earth.

all this and more happened to me as i was cleaning up my photo library. thank you dana, for such a wonderous theme. i am traveling towards different perspectives as we speak, this is getting curiouser and curiouser. ;)

strobo white blast {renov # 10}

{previously}  

 

wouldn't it be good.... (remember the song?). what a long time ago. i'm humming it today, because i know that before long all will be good. not that things aren't good anyway. it's been raining (too) hard, it's true, but kitten is keeping me company in my lap. i greeted my sweet central heating specialist, trying not to grow too desperate over the fact the builders managed to roof up while forsaking the exhaust pipe for the central heating boiler! oh glory, they will be hearing from me. and they will be drilling that hole too. blast!

little update : all is well that ends well. had a good ♥-to-♥ chat to my favourite builder. he's finishing up as we speak. next week the kitchen window and doors to the garden are arriving. my central heating will be finished before long.... it's getting there, i tell you, it's getting there. and so. i think the time may be at hand to post a preliminary before/after?  i know everybody loves before/afters. so do i. thank you for having a look at just a few curlicues. feel free to click on images! 

UPDATE 1C - studio fully insulated and plastered
(small window te be installed his thursday)

as i'm leafing through my picture gallery, i revel at the long and winding road  (now there's another song) we've traveled already.... [far more impressive before/afters are coming up. and that's a promise!] 

1A - studio-to-be before anything got done to it

1B - plastering in studio and bedroom 2 halfway

2A - son's bedroom before anything got done to it

 2B - son's bedroom fully plastered and insulated

3A - old outbuildings when first viewing the house

3B - new built kitchen extension with favourite builder roofing the top

♥ and now then, on to something completely different : crochet! remember these buggers? begging for attention they are. here comes. let's finger massage the old limbs then.

corner view ≈ anything goes!

so. anything goes! you better believe it.

blue trees [reflection in blue shiny car]

green concrete [painted play field]

black lions on yellow [ornamental church ceiling]

orange plaster [painted wall]

and purple spikes [sun shadow on brugues painted door]

prince william is getting married, or so i'm told. it's my boss who uttered it today, and i asked meekly : 'who's getting married ?' just goes to show. anything goes!
beatles are on i-tunes, it seems. whatever that means. i thought they'd already been on it for ages.... but! anything goes. and music does live on forever. don't you just love it too? what's going on over at yours ? [via theresa and laninja]