tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76742432009-06-24T22:00:10.046+02:00Tip: Best viewed with Mozilla Firefox.Aishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04939230653024473666noreply@blogger.comBlogger157125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674243.post-66216501178504476372009-05-31T23:38:00.001+02:002009-05-31T23:39:36.816+02:00After a while<br />the blackbird fell silent<br /><br />When she next looked up<br />from the laptop, what passed<br />for darkness in a northern summer<br />had settled behind a much stronger light<br />now from the slow-moving moon<br /><br />----<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674243-6621650117850447637?l=memepools.blogspot.com'/></div>Aishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04939230653024473666noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674243.post-8601613665473363202009-05-24T13:42:00.006+02:002009-05-24T13:48:23.003+02:00my neighbour took his life<br />off facebook today: won't be final<br />till two weeks from now<br /><br />----<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674243-860161366547336320?l=memepools.blogspot.com'/></div>Aishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04939230653024473666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674243.post-36619601821929443212009-03-09T18:49:00.000+01:002009-03-09T18:50:29.584+01:00<strong>Seven for Lent - List Poem</strong> <hr style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" size="1"> <!-- / icon and title --> <!-- message --> <div>It's Lent so I'm not<br />buying books<br />or old movies,<br />not even jazz<br /><br />It's Lent so I'm not<br />buying Dinner<br />with Anna Karenina<br />by Goldreich<br />Arabesque<br />with Gregory Peck<br />Kind of Blue<br />with Miles<br />That Botswana lady<br />detective novel<br /><br />It's Lent so I'm not<br />buying Sentimental Journey<br />with Doris Day<br />or the latest poems<br />by Hirshfield<br /><br />It's Lent so I'm not<br />buying Georgia O'Keeffe<br />and the Camera<br /><br />It's Lent so I'm not.<br />I'm stacking them high<br />in my Amazon cart<br />ready for Easter Sunday :-)<br /><br />Aisha<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674243-3661960182192944321?l=memepools.blogspot.com'/></div>Aishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04939230653024473666noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674243.post-7210723935029532522009-02-12T20:01:00.003+01:002009-02-12T20:05:18.587+01:00Lent in 2009 will start on Wednesday, the <b>25th of February</b> and will continue for 46 days until Saturday, the <b>11th of April.<br /><br />NUNS, we need to do our work -- or rather, NOT do much at all: we are not doing any Unnecessary </b><b>Needless </b><b>Shopping- No UNS = NUNS!<br /><br />You won't find us out on a spree-- we'll only be seen on Public Transport for cultural purposes-- museums, galleries, that's us :-)<br /><br /><img src="http://pamela.poole.free.fr/frogblog/wp-content/2007/10/nuns.jpg" /><br /><br /></b><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674243-721072393502953252?l=memepools.blogspot.com'/></div>Aishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04939230653024473666noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674243.post-36588476808003704362008-03-20T21:56:00.004+01:002008-03-20T22:07:48.311+01:00NUNS, I have sinned. And of course in Paris, that's traditional.<br /><br />I bought luxury teas at Mariage Freres and a new book by Anna Gavalda.<br />(I don't count the books by William Gibson: he is after all the raison d'etre of my blog.)<br /><br />Three more days, and we are out of the woods!<br /><br /><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2193/2334247074_e92f4ea6e4_o.jpg" /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674243-3658847680800370436?l=memepools.blogspot.com'/></div>Aishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04939230653024473666noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674243.post-35568267996855744752008-01-21T18:39:00.000+01:002008-01-21T18:42:49.021+01:00<p class="style38" align="center">Lent begins on Wednesday 6 February 2008 </p> <p align="left"><span class="style43">When does Lent end? When is Lent over? </span></p> Lent lasts for 40 days and ends the day before <a href="http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/easter/easterday.htm">Easter Sunday!</a><br /><br />So you know what is coming: No Unnecessary Needless Shopping during Lent!<br /><br /><img src="http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/jca/lowres/jcan48l.jpg" /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674243-3556826799685574475?l=memepools.blogspot.com'/></div>Aishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04939230653024473666noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674243.post-74909651581863362892007-10-20T14:00:00.000+02:002007-10-20T14:07:10.665+02:00Two months away and nothing to report.<br />Work work work.<br />Study study study (but that part is cool really).<br /><br />And a pic of my flowers this weekend.<br /><br />Wonder if anyone ever comes here any more.<br />Going now to look up my linked friends.<br /><br /><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2104/1652454237_0d2a7a96a6_o.jpg" /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674243-7490965158186336289?l=memepools.blogspot.com'/></div>Aishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04939230653024473666noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674243.post-80301155201747763012007-08-03T21:05:00.000+02:002007-08-03T21:11:55.969+02:00It's a good job Blogger doesn't fine you for not updating regularly.<br /><br />I thought I would stick a bit in here about Second Life, since the author of Pattern Recognition, William Gibson, has a new book out and actually went virtual last night, reading from it and answering questions in Second Life. And it's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOzf80AWg2I">all </a>on You Tube!<br /><br />He says in his blog that all he had to learn, really, was how to sit down in Second Life... the rest was easy.<br /><br />A couple of my friends were there. I was detained in First Life, where I had to hand out laundry keys to real people.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674243-8030115520174776301?l=memepools.blogspot.com'/></div>Aishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04939230653024473666noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674243.post-63523995746365813602007-04-11T00:42:00.000+02:002007-04-11T00:43:42.135+02:00<img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/249/454588710_846c1b9e91_o.jpg" /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674243-6352399574636581360?l=memepools.blogspot.com'/></div>Aishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04939230653024473666noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674243.post-87646141774375489272007-04-01T19:38:00.000+02:002007-04-01T19:40:04.775+02:00Spring reaches the D/S Louise couple too!<br /><br /><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/186/442256882_fa1fcf56c8.jpg" /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674243-8764614177437548927?l=memepools.blogspot.com'/></div>Aishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04939230653024473666noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674243.post-59540899757417741582007-03-23T23:33:00.001+01:002007-03-23T23:33:44.028+01:00<div><embed quality="high" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.frappr.com/ajax/yvmap.swf" flashvars="host=http://www.frappr.com/&origin=blogger&amp;lo=1&mvid=4716548" salign="l" align="middle" scale="noscale" width="500" height="300"></embed><div style="width:400px;text-align:left;"><a href="http://visitor.frappr.com/?sig=visitor_map&src_mvid=4716548&amp;origin=blogger" target="_blank"><img src="http://frappr.com/i/gyo.gif" border="0/" /></a><a href="http://www.frappr.com/wgb?src=flash_map&sig=visitor_map&amp;src_mvid=4716548&origin=blogger&amp;ct=seemore" target="_blank"><img src="http://frappr.com/i/s.gif" border="0/" /></a><a href="http://www.frappr.com/wgb?src=flash_map&sig=visitor_map&amp;src_mvid=4716548&origin=blogger&amp;ct=pendingpins" target="_blank"><img src="http://frappr.com/dyn_map/366625/origin:blogger/p.gif" border="0/" /></a><a href="http://www.frappr.com/?a=feedback&amp;type=vm" target="_blank"><img src="http://frappr.com/i/h.gif" border="0/" /></a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674243-5954089975741774158?l=memepools.blogspot.com'/></div>Aishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04939230653024473666noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674243.post-3371699117819102772007-02-24T12:36:00.000+01:002007-02-24T12:39:12.572+01:00Good to read the comments on the NUNS post and see I have some backing -- !<br /><br />So far I have been greatly aided by online purchases dropping into my mailbox still from earlier shopping sprees :)<br /><br />We managed it before and we will again.<br />With a healthy underdraft to show for it...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674243-337169911781910277?l=memepools.blogspot.com'/></div>Aishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04939230653024473666noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674243.post-20487768001314410962007-02-10T15:49:00.000+01:002007-02-10T16:01:01.140+01:00Lent begins on Wednesday 21 February 2007...<br /><br /><span class="arttext" style=";font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;" ><span style="">And -- Lent lasts for 40 days.</span></span><br /><br />No Unnecessary Needless Shopping until Easter Sunday, 8 April.<br /><br />I am ready for this! Too many DVDs from Amazon, too many books for the pile at the end of my bed...<br /><br />Too many easy-to-buy-without trying-on tops.. . too many jeans...<br /><br />(OK, too few ladylike skirts and trousers, but I even stocked up on that recently. I'm all right, Joan.)<br /><br />Who wants to join me on this mission against over-consumption?<br /><br /><img src="http://houseofboo.com/graphics/nuns.gif" /><br /><br />I am counting on my usual friends: You know who you are, and you are in my sidebar blog links.<br />Also hoping for new converts...<br /><br />Down With Shopping !<br /><br /><br /><span class="arttext" style=";font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:78%;" ><span style=""><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><a href="http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/easter/easter/saturday.htm"><br /></a></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674243-2048776800131441096?l=memepools.blogspot.com'/></div>Aishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04939230653024473666noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674243.post-1170865224437610242007-02-07T17:16:00.001+01:002007-02-07T17:20:24.483+01:00<img src="http://www.illyusa.com/AB1666000store/images/home/illy-logo-cup-of-coffee.jpg"><br /><br />It can be done!<br /><br /><img src="http://www.cafecom.no/images/outside.jpg"><br /><br />In <a href="http://www.cafecom.no/">Stavanger.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674243-117086522443761024?l=memepools.blogspot.com'/></div>Aishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04939230653024473666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674243.post-1169592735092052902007-01-23T23:50:00.000+01:002007-01-23T23:53:06.230+01:00Plogged in the London hotel room: 8th floor gave great view: quick sketch from window sill with water colour pencils. Gonna try wetting it later for a better effect.<br /><br /><img src="http://www4.eboard.com/boards/16/16/20/ShisaPoet/att-1494376/londonrooftops.JPG"><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674243-116959273509205290?l=memepools.blogspot.com'/></div>Aishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04939230653024473666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674243.post-1169295836661474582007-01-20T13:21:00.000+01:002007-01-20T13:23:56.703+01:00captured on the Piccadilly Line:<br /><br /><img src="http://www1.eboard.com/boards/16/16/20/ShisaPoet/att-1490294/Londonrain210.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://www1.eboard.com/boards/16/16/20/ShisaPoet/att-1490295/London_rain211.jpg"><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674243-116929583666147458?l=memepools.blogspot.com'/></div>Aishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04939230653024473666noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674243.post-1167336434851908622006-12-28T21:04:00.000+01:002006-12-28T21:07:14.903+01:00OK laugh!<br />All I have for my blog is my own bookcase-- and I gave myself a virtual logfire for Christmas - complete with crackling flaring sounds...<br /><br /><img src="http://www1.eboard.com/boards/16/16/20/ShisaPoet/att-1465691/bookcase_small.JPG"><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674243-116733643485190862?l=memepools.blogspot.com'/></div>Aishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04939230653024473666noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674243.post-1167330310237123952006-12-28T19:23:00.000+01:002006-12-28T19:25:40.786+01:00-- in London-- and my friend Wingtips (see links) got me this, just in time to get the best treatment when I order tea and cucumber sandwiches:<br /><br /><table bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellspacing="8"> <tr><td valign="middle"><img src="http://www.masquerademaskarts.com/memes/minicrest.gif"></td><td valign="middle"> <font color=black> My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is:</font> <br> <font size=4 color=black> Imperial Majesty Aisha the Coherent of Hardy St Thomas </font><br> <small> <a href="http://www.masquerademaskarts.com/memes/peculiartitle.php">Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title</a> </small> </td></tr> </table><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674243-116733031023712395?l=memepools.blogspot.com'/></div>Aishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04939230653024473666noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674243.post-1166367271983812882006-12-17T15:53:00.000+01:002006-12-17T16:23:28.556+01:00Also on walk today-- Carduelis flammea flammea:<br /><br /><img src="http://www1.eboard.com/boards/16/16/20/ShisaPoet/att-1457369/gr%E5sisikdesember.JPG"><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674243-116636727198381288?l=memepools.blogspot.com'/></div>Aishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04939230653024473666noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674243.post-1166364887387128922006-12-17T15:13:00.000+01:002006-12-17T15:15:18.426+01:00My lake today:<br /><br /><img src="http://www2.eboard.com/boards/16/16/20/ShisaPoet/att-1457360/frost_by_lakesmall.JPG"><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674243-116636488738712892?l=memepools.blogspot.com'/></div>Aishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04939230653024473666noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674243.post-1165342862551962322006-12-05T19:18:00.000+01:002006-12-05T19:21:02.570+01:00I pass this every morning on my way to work...<br /><br />Heartening :)<br /><br /><img src="http://www4.eboard.com/boards/16/16/20/ShisaPoet/att-1442156/Hearts_on_willow_imedium.JPG"><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674243-116534286255196232?l=memepools.blogspot.com'/></div>Aishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04939230653024473666noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674243.post-1163194094542284222006-11-10T22:26:00.000+01:002006-11-10T22:39:24.353+01:00Captured on my way today.<br /><br /><img src="http://www2.eboard.com/boards/16/16/20/ShisaPoet/att-1410404/smallfrostyroses.JPG"><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674243-116319409454228422?l=memepools.blogspot.com'/></div>Aishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04939230653024473666noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674243.post-1162137027584956652006-10-29T16:47:00.000+01:002006-10-29T16:54:08.666+01:00This photo is really for my friend Far From The Madding Crowd (see my blog links). He has a worthy :) tree poem on his blog right now<br /><br />Taken this afternoon through my flat window.<br />It is a maple or sycamore of sorts.<br /><br /><img src="http://www1.eboard.com/boards/16/16/20/ShisaPoet/att-1390221/autumntreesmallsize.JPG"><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674243-116213702758495665?l=memepools.blogspot.com'/></div>Aishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04939230653024473666noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674243.post-1161538240981300192006-10-22T19:26:00.000+02:002006-10-22T19:30:40.996+02:00Autumn has come! <br />Let's celebrate! Oops, I dated it November...should be 20th October.<br /><br />...November doesn't have any colors in the cold rain.<br /><br /><img src="http://www3.eboard.com/boards/16/16/20/ShisaPoet/att-1379221/Scann1.jpg"><br /><br /><br><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674243-116153824098130019?l=memepools.blogspot.com'/></div>Aishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04939230653024473666noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674243.post-1160009176037726152006-10-05T02:38:00.000+02:002006-10-05T18:12:45.103+02:00Three weeks have passed since I proclaimed the arrival of autumn: far too precipitate.<br /><br /><b>Rye Road Warming</b><br /><br />We are waiting for trees<br />to turn golden, we are waiting<br />for days to cool us down: It's October<br />and too warm still. <br /><br />That greenhouse effect <br />must have swallowed<br />the hype: "Think globally,<br />act locally."<br /><br />Rye Road is waiting.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674243-116000917603772615?l=memepools.blogspot.com'/></div>Aishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04939230653024473666noreply@blogger.com3