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My sisters are amazing!

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It’s my birthday today and, since I’m really rather a long way away from them I didn’t expect anything more than a really great phonecall. However, what I actually got was a call from my intercom, and man from a local florist, saying he had a bunch of flowers for me! And what a bouquet! Incredible! Completely unexpected and the nicest surprise ever! When the delivery man rang on my door I really thought he’d got the wrong person: who’d be sending flowers to me? And more importantly, WHY?! Then I got it; I’m so dumb sometimes.
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Belga on my mind

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It’s just Belga, Belga, Belga, the whole day through…

There’s a Café not far from my house called Café Belga. It’s a nifty little place where the customers are cool, the bar staff are haughty and the beef is cold. It’s got massive big windows out onto the commune’s ponds and a large square that currently has a building work engulfing it. It’s been engulfed for the last four years as well: they don’t hurry on public projects in Belgium I guess. The clientelle simply pretend the building work isn’t going on and on Friday and Saturday nights the place is packed. It’s the place where ‘the intelligent’ people go, apparently.

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Waiting for you…

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Saw this on the blog of a guy I ‘ran into’ online a couple weeks ago. He’s a big fan of Shakira and so forth, that whole genre of music. I don’t know why I mention it other than the fact that I’m really not interested in the Oral Fixation thing. But he went to a Nelly Furtado concert here in Bruxelles not long ago (she was playing for a couple nights in the Forest concert hall), so he must be doing something right. This image though: too cute to not pass on!

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Happy (Hippy?) G8 Protestor with a marvelous riot shield backdrop…

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Now you know who’s watching the watchers, taken by davefitch and posted on Flickr.

A couple of hours ago, on initially seeing this image, I was startled into thinking I thought I’ve been even more out of the news that I have in fact been, managing to miss an entire G8 summit. This stunning photograph, an addition to the photostream of a new Flickr contact had me jumping onto Google News to see what the Group of Eight had been up to recently, only to dig deeper and find that the demonstration shown here took place in July 2005. Phew. This particularly resonated with me because I found out today that over the past week I’d missed the whole news about a number of British Navy Seamen being held captive by Iranian force in the Gulf. News of ‘aveux contraints’, ‘political sacrifices’, ‘la patience et la détermination’, les ‘bras de fer’ et ‘les libérations dès que possible’ all around, and me in center of European international cooperation, oblivious. Oops. Clearly I’ve been reading the wrong news. Less Sopranos, tvs and more international politics I think.

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