Join me on my trips

Only just made breakfast. Not too hot today. Managed to get coffee machine to work but light switches a mystery, all symbols and tiny buttons. On my way I noticed this on the side of a bus. and this wall. Note the coffee cup. Headed to the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia which are close together in  large open park with fountains and benches and trees. The Blue Mosque is free. Then up and up Hagia Sophia which I think was about 25 dollars. Then had a Turkish coffee in Cafe Medusa which had this rather eclectic collection hanging from a little tree. One of many rows of ATMs. The Grand Bazaar. The very yellow gold doesnt suit my skin luckily. Still trying to find a Swatch shop for new batteries. Went on a tram to a mall at the bottom of this street. No luck so taxi back to hotel where there is a rooftop bar. Looking south...

This is 6.15 this morning and the hens are already up and looking for food. I am wearing new white shoes as I normally wear navy trainers but I notice that everyone seems to be wearing white and my trainers looked a bit clumpy so now Ill be a bit smarter. Just looked up weather and found a cardigan as its getting cooler there. Meanwhile 4 astronauts are about to circle the moon. Not sure why as it seems scientifically this is not all important. So is it just another Trump prestige stunt? Having white hair got me closetted with the disabled and small children plus their bags and pushchairs. Quite fun watching the parents trying to fold them into plastic bags. Got a spare seat next to me in fact ended up with whole row. Plane 2/3 empty. Massive walks though to passport then baggage then exit. This is a vast city built on hills. Mainly 5 storey, so no lift necessary, intersperced with spikey minarets.  Now in my Bank Hotel, which is very sedate and very empty. ...

Getting ready to go and email collapses.  Tulips today to remind me what I need next year. More dark ones and fill gaps this end. Meanwhile war still rages in Iran and Israel and Lebanon and Ukraine and probably Sudan too. Too terrible for ordinary people just trying to live. Children will be traumatised? Did Wwi and ww2 have that effect?

The bed with orange and yellow has done well and now the pink and purple are starting too. Ophelia had fun playing with this pic. I watched an egret foraging. It shakes its leg to disturb the silt to release little creatures then grabs them. H elebores thriving. Through the trees.

It is a library, an archive, a virtual art gallery. The repository of everything that you have seen, heard, tasted, smelt, spoken or thought. The ability to recall anything from any of those categories is remarkable. Why some odd name or comment pops up unrequested in contrast to the sometimes wait to recall the name of a flower is confusing. I can go though names of teachers, boyfriends, presents, films, from the 50s and 60s as well as last week. Its all stored away. Events from the 40s even, yet why are some things so clear you can almost see them, Dad shooting at a cobra on the lawn about 1954 but not what happened the next day or the day before. Eating grated carrot with orange juice which was a NEW thing to do in the 50s but what else was on the table. A comment made by someone on holiday, someone I may even not know the name of, "he worked for Hamptons", who on earth said that and about whom? Yet I remember clearly where I was when I heard it. So how does the brain sele...

A few warm days with blue skies at last and tulips all coming out in succession. Ophelia designed my birthday party invite. The next batch of tulips are flowering.