Week 22: Some public art please

To celebrate my dear brother's new public art installation you are challenged to discover the artistic treasures hidden within your city.

Gem x

Week 21: Still waiting...

Here is the book which I surreptitiously placed on the seat next to me on the Piccadilly line on my way to work. I have read it and enjoyed it, I am not so fond of it as to feel the need to hang on but I liked it enough to recommend to a complete stranger - let's hope they are just taking their time and planning what they will say before blogging.;

Come on people it's all fun!!

Gem

Week 21: renegade librarianship

For this challenge, I selected a book that already had a long, sad history of being abandoned. It had been left in our house by our friends Anja and Anton, who had picked it up in a secondhand bookshop somewhere on their travels. Without wishing to offend the author and any fans of said book, I do not think it was a book that one would fall instantly and eternally in love with. It was not, as they say, a keeper.

So, yesterday, I surreptitiously left it in the cafe where I was having breakfast, and managed to take a few sneaky snaps of it before the couple opposite started to get alarmed about why I was taking pictures under the table in their direction....





If anyone reading this happened to find this book, please say hello! Oh, and I didn't mean what I said about it, it's a delightful read.

Love, ali x

Week 21: spread the word

This week:

1) Take a book that you own (one that you don't mind parting with in the service of this blog).

2) Write today's date in it, then inscribe it with the following: "Take me, I'm yours! On one condition: you must inform my previous owner, by visiting http://aliandgem-taleoftwocities.blogspot.com/ "

3) Leave said book somewhere in a public place, then simply walk away, and entrust its destiny to fate...

Love, ali x

Week 20: 'Hey, I put some new shoes on and everything feels alright'

I guess it depends on how you judge a bargain but for me these shoes fitted the bill. Bought them on Tuesday and wore them out on a Netball night out on Friday. Danced my head off until my feet gave up in my new shoes. Went to a bar called Strawberry Moons: cocktails for £8 and cheesy music all night, thought of you a lot and how much I wished you were there.

Good night was had by all, we have a new team so it was a good bonding session for the newbies. We have just joined the training sessions which start tomorrow night so we will be pros by the time you get back.

Love Gem xx

Week 20: what is need?

Need is a relative, and therefore very nebulous, concept. Did Tom really need a new t-shirt with a pointless slogan on it from our local vintage shop? Probably not. And I think Pa Parkinson would have agreed with me on that one. But there's no denying the bargainous nature of this purchase; 6 shiny Australian dollars was the asking price, and we got away with paying $5.60, because it was all we had on us. We then realised that one of the dollars we'd handed over was a New Zealand dollar, so technically we paid just $4.60 in legal tender. This may not have been very moral, but when you're bargain-hunting, morals go out the window.




Love, ali x

Week 19:A new way through

I decided to walk to work last week in the attempt to scope out a new route. As you said there is a reason for taking the tube and that reason is time and temperature. I was hot but made it with three mins to spare, phew and never again.

Gem xxx