I watched a DVD about Coco Chanel yesterday. It was beautiful. She was really a feminist in that she freed women from restrictive clothing. She also was driven to live independently and follow her own passions. I had no idea. I have to admit I’ve never been especially interested in fashion designers. I have thought it to be a bit superficial. I enjoyed the film, which was for the most part a love story.

Darin has started a new job as a chef and was working so I had a day to indulge myself. I love hearing about what he has cooked.

I have a bit of a chest infection so I just quietly pottered around the house yesterday. I love this beautiful sunshine. Today we are heading for the sea.

These days I can’t find the time or the enthusiasm for it. I still check how many visitors I get regularly, at least as often as I blog.

I guess in the beginning I was learning as much as I could because I was hoping to use it at school. I had a vision of blogs replacing student workbooks. They would never get lost or left at home. They would be able to tag each entry and retrieve information on subjects with ease. They might put a bit more care and thought into their work, since it was to be published.  They would be able to have discussions with others through comments. Parents would be able to look up online and see what their young person was doing very clearly. They could check their stats and get real feedback about their work. I thought it was the perfect system. It hasn’t been nearly so simple to achieve in reality for lots of reasons.

It’s now less than two weeks until I see my favourite Taurean in the world. I am looking forward to it. This extra long weekend is just what I needed right now. It’s been great to unwind.

This is Mystic Medusa’s caution about the other influences occuring now.

Then we headed for some food and as always the Italian place had delicious pizza and pasta. I like the woman who takes my order. She’s has such a beautiful, warm and open face. I feel I can ask for anything and it will be no problem. The food is consistently delicious.

I texted Tom, as sitting in front of the place reminded me of last year with him and his friends. We had some great feasts there in our bathers last year. Lots of laughs too. He called me back. We exchanged news, this has been a busy week for it. He sounds well and as though he is enjoying his life. It’s not long until he comes back for another weekend and I must say I am looking forward to it.

We then headed back to play in the waves as the crowd was disappearing. It was a fun and full day. I was glad Darin was driving home because the sun, swimming and the belly full of pasta made for a drowsy drive home. Instead of loud music all the way home, we played ‘I Spy’ and then ’sleeping tigers’.

Tonight when I finished work, we went for a swim. It was divine. A hot muggy day meant the enlivening thing to do was to be in the water. We have the beautiful children this weekend. I was amazed at the number of able bodied parents content to watch their kids swim. I couldn’t have sat by a pool watching on a day like today. We swam and then famished we got chips to eat in the park. The park exposed to much skin to the blood-suckers so we moved our feast home.

After dinner we went for a walk to get ice creams. It was a major slap fest. The mosquitos were buzzing with every step we took.