It's all a just a bunch of hocus pocus....

"Another glorious morning......makes me feel sick!"



Every Halloween in my family we have a tradition of watching Hocus Pocus, so even if i'm not around them this year i will be watching it at some point today. i will also be carrying around some salt to protect me from nasty witches and hobgoblins.....

Happy Halloween!

Whilst reading David McCulloughs biography of John Adams, i came across this passage which describes Abigail Adams opinion of her first visit to the ballet in the early 1780's in Paris,

"The dresses and beauty of the performers were enchanting, but no sooner did the dance commence that i felt my delicacy wounded, and i was ashamed to be looking at them. Girls clothed in the thinnest silk gauze, with their petticoats short, springing two feet from the floor, poising themselves in the air, with their feet flying, and as perfectly showing their garters and drawers, as though no petticoats had been worn, was a slight altogether new to me. Their motions are as light as air and as quick as lightning."

I fear that the former First Lady may have thought me a fallen woman.....oh dear....

love is blind.....

"If they say that love is blind then I was blind willingly"
Katie Melua


Listening to my ipod today, this line struck home as to how i'm feeling today.

A Conversation....

So this is a little tid-bit of a conversation that took place today between my American and Slovene friend. It did make me chortle a little bit.....

Slovene - What? Cant you name all the Presidents of the USA?

American - All forty four of them.....No.
Can you name all your Presidents?

Slovene - (very decisively) Yes.
All Three of them.
I can also name all the Presidents of ex-Yugolslavia...
Well....there was only one.


Slovenia is a baby country........

Sunday....

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them"

Mother Theresa

Ice Dancer?

I went ice-skating today after the first time in about 6 years. I love figure skating....well i love watching it, if you ask me if i wasnt a ballet dancer what would i'd like to be i'd say a figure skater....unfortunately i'm not quite as graceful on the ice as i feel i ought to be....in fact i'm not very graceful at all. The old lady kept lapping me (i kept telling myself that she had an Olympic medal in her bum bag and it is okay for an ex-Olympian to over lap me), the children found it fun to skate very fast around me to disorientate me....nevertheless i soldiered on. In fact when i was leaving a very nice old gentleman approached me to tell me the first steps are always the hardest and he hoped i would come back to practise....i told him i will.

In the four years i've been in Slovenia this is the first time i've managed to get someone to go skating with me, indoor recreational skating is not typical to their culture. In fact when trying to explain to my friends the concept of an indoor ice rink they got very confused, and in fact indoor ice rinks only appear in the winter......on the upside... its free.....

My Friend.....Stanley

This is Stanley, he lives at the bottom of my street.

i know that his name is not really Stanley, (mainly because i'm sure there has never been a Slovene named Stanley). There is no plaque to tell me his real name, what he did or why he has a statue at the end of my street in his honour....yet every day as i pass him by i felt like i should be able to said a friendly hello to the only neighbour who i see everyday, in fact the only neighbour who i really know. So i named him Stanley.

I often like to muse over the life of Stanley and what wonderful Adventures he might have had