Guess I better order some books from Amazon then.
(Photo taken in Nice last year though a shop window at night.)
I have to start doing stuff like putting up decorations and that means moving furniture and going down the cellar to get the tree etc.
In the meantime our roof continues to leak even though we just paid 300 quid to get it fixed.
Poor ol’ TT is getting mad tryng to fix it … (I am hiding).
Rosa is lying on the sofa feeling ill and I am thinking that illness is not so much a breach in everyday life as part of an ongoing narrative. When she was first ill (eleven years ago) she saw it as an intrrruption in her life; an assault on what she had in mind. I saw it as a robbery. Now she sees this as a part of herself, a story about a girl who became ill and now makes sense of it through a different type of story which does not have the same staging posts as everyone else. Her peers have so far marked out their lives through grades in school, passing exams (or not) and going to university.Her posts are more like ‘the bad summer’; ‘the winter where I did go shopping’; this one is a winter where things went downhill again.
But in the meantime, we mark out the moment with a tinsel tree and decorations.
And we have a bucket on our bed to catch the rain.
There is a fantastic book that is a collection of stories at told by
people who have/ are living with illness and the one remark that stuck with me was
‘the most compelling stories, both those we tell and those we hear, are the ones that
get embedded for life somewhere deep inside us’. I will dig it out and send it on
whwen I get back from Bangkok.It is a tad distressed as Tallulah has had a little chew of one corner but apart
from that is in good nick.
Hoping you all have a FAAABULOUS Christmas.
Lots of love
Talluah and her Dad.
Comment by tallulah's dad — December 16, 2006 @ 8:54 am
Oh that sounds WONDERFUL Tallulah and her Dad… thanks I would love to read it as I am thinking SERIOUSLY now about writing a story with Rosa. And I think that it would be great Karma to have it with dog chewy bits missing!!
Comment by DrJoolz — December 16, 2006 @ 3:42 pm
Great photo! I’m sure Sam Peckinpah once made a movie called “Bring me the head(s) of Santa Claus.”
I hope you and TT have a drip-free Christmas!
Comment by Roger B. — December 16, 2006 @ 4:59 pm
Thanks Roger B. I seriously hope the drips stop soon too. Apparently …. theroof man is comin again on Tuesday.
We’ll see.
Comment by DrJoolz — December 16, 2006 @ 6:41 pm