A summer in the city. A strange thing for this woman who lives in a small village surrounded by bush and ocean. Strange too, not to be worrying about bushfires if there’s a hot day or a howling wind.
Here on the other side of the world, the summer pleasures are many: garden flowers, vegetable stalls, and the fruit and berries evolving on now familiar northern hemisphere trees in Park Morskie Oko. Some days the air is full of flower dust and the smell of lime blossom.
Bikini-clad bodies set themselves up for the day in the grassy areas of the parks, slathering on sunscreen and pulling out holiday reading. I can work up a sweat coming back from a morning shop but I can also retreat into the intermittent deep shade and feel the thermometer dropping at least 5°, not respite I experience under the straggly shade of eucalypts on the headland at Potato Point.
A glorious week with three year olds, in playgrounds, fountains, apartments and at the zoo, leaves me fatigued and ready for a brief calming foray back into the blogosphere to celebrate summer.
It’s lovely to see you and the treasures you’ve brought with you 🙂
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I’m enjoying you, but not paying my dues in comment!
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Well I’m glad you’ve got better things to do, enjoy!
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Not better things. Other things!
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Wonderful observations of the natural world. Wish we had some of your heat!
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We’ve had a few cool ones, but they don’t star in a summer theme!
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And old friends sit in ice cream parlours humouring son and husband. Hugs xx
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Hugs to you too. It’s been strange being absent. I’ve been reading blogs through the haze, but not commenting. Enjoy the ice cream. Does that mean it’s warm?
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35 C and they just won the European Cup.Total madness xx
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Saw the reverse here when Poland lost to Portugal! Hope you’re eminently relaxed, and don’t feel obliged to do a blog catch-up when you return. Hugs on a rainy day.
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Almost ready to rush over for a hug 🙂 🙂 Just parceled James back off to Leeds and collapsed with strawbs and icecream.
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Great to see you back in the blogosphere, Meg…I’ve missed your posts! What a lovely set of images. BTW, I have posted some Warsaw images today
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I’ve been looking, just not commenting. I’ve saved the links to all your Warsaw posts and I’ll post them on my blog when life returns to mine.
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Hope you recharge after post-twin week exhaustion!
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We’ve got three ambivalent days without them.
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Ambivalent?
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I want to be with them, and I need a rest!
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Ah, of course, silly me…. 🙄
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Beautiful photo selection, love the hollyhocks.
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Trouble is, you spoil us with this cornucopia of posts, so that when you are away for a short time we miss you very much indeed. Welcome back, for a short time, and make the most of ambivalence.
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Thank you for missing me. There’ll be one more post before I return to oblivion, although we only have the twins for two days this week: other babcia hasn’t seen them for a while.
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Good to see you back, briefly Meg. Summer in the city has the tune running around my mind, one of my favourites. What a colourful place and as you say, so different to Potato Point.
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