Istanbul window

Istanbul window, originally uploaded by - di.

I think I have some kind of autumn lethargy setting in.

Rome has been put on hold for the moment ... on hold and replaced by other things . I have a lovely London-based Australian friend flying in for a few days today. I lived with her and her man for a few weeks when an employer failed to come through with my promised school house in Istanbul. Warmhearted, easy-going creature that she is, meant that I really enjoyed my time with her at her place, halfway up concrete stairs close to the edge of the Bosphorous.

The attached photograph was taken while lying in my couch bed in her lounge early one morning ... watching the curtains float on a summer breeze, I noticed the strange beauty of the red bars on the window.

So there's Clare, and then next week holds the promise of the working sleepover. The lovely v-grrrl has offered me space in her place in Brussels. I still have interviews to write up, taped interviews that Gert somehow transfered to my computer and I am in need peace and space and maybe some laughter after a few days of nursing sick people here.

Did I mention that every day I fall a little more in love with my laptop ... my Belgian isn't so bad either actually.

This weekend there's a catch-up with Gert's parents and a photography sitting with the family of a favourite friend of mine.

I need to get all the photographs of cultural events to the integration project by the 10th, and I have another pile of cds and dvds full of photographs going out to various people the world around once I'm financially viable again.

Last night a New Zealand woman I had spoken with at a Last Post ceremony in Menen Gate back in October wrote to ask if I had photographs of her sons laying a wreath and another mother in New Zealand spotted photographs I had taken of her London-based rugby-playing sons, printed in the New Zealand Herald. I have a cd for her too.

I am missing mountains and empty beaches, autumn has already been very grey and Manic has predicted one of those very cold Belgian winters ...

Need mountains or beaches.
Must work on that.