Categories: uncategorized
Date: 06 March 2005 10:46:42
Someone from church came up to me this morning and said sheepishly "I think I've been reading your blog". I think she was a little concerned that I might feel uncomfortable about that, but I've always written here what I wouldn't mind people I know knowing (does that sentence make sense? I was at the early service this morning as I couldn't quite face a Mothers' Day service, and the grammar-pedant zone in my brain hasn't quite woken up yet). Hopefully you're all totally convinced that I'm dead spiritual, dead clever and dead cultured - as much a result of what I don't write here as what I do :)
I watched "Life is Beautiful" last night. I know it was very stylised, and very lovely and sweet and all the rest of it, but despite that I find anything to do with the holocaust really disturbing - that level of evil is just so incomprehensible. I even woke up at *&^% o'clock thinking about it for hours. I think I often over-protect myself from harsh reality, and sometimes when I'm confronted with it, even in a stylised way, it takes me ages to get to some point of equilibrium again (or maybe that should be some point of denial?). Whatever. Great film.
I'm going to spend a chunk of today in the garden (till I freeze that is). It's been thriving on neglect, the arch is still in a state of collapse, but I want it to be something that adds to the attraction of the house to potential buyers so I need to sort out the worst of the undergrowth. Plus it's the part of my house I'll miss most when I go, so I want to look after it while I still have the chance.