obligatory snow pictures from London

February 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · domestic life, london

Some things that I learned over this snowy period:

1. When it snows at night, it’s an eerie bright orange. The streetlights of London bounce off the snow in the air to light up the whole sky with a diffuse orange glow. Neat.

2. Dogs do not automatically know they are meant to pull stuff, and do not automatically enjoy it. Nor do they automatically know what ‘mush’ or ‘hike’ mean.

3. The experience of skiing in Greenwich Park is oddly similar to normal skiing in a resort. You
have trudging along roads, car parks, and trails. Highly recommended.

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Oddyseus's bed

After Oddyseus finally comes home after 19 years and kills all the bad guys, his wife Penelope still won’t let herself believe it’s him. In her final ‘test’ she asks someone to move his bed outside the room, to which Oddyseus retorts:

“Wife, I am much displeased at what you have just been saying. Who has been taking my bed from the place in which I left it? He must have found it a hard task, no matter how skilled a workman he was, unless some god came and helped him to shift it. There is no man living, however strong and in his prime, who could move it from its place, for it is a marvellous curiosity which I made with my very own hands. There was a young olive growing within the precincts of the house, in full vigour, and about as thick as a bearing-post. I built my room round this with strong walls of stone and a roof to cover them, and I made the doors strong and well-fitting. Then I cut off the top boughs of the olive tree and left the stump standing. This I dressed roughly from the root upwards and then worked with carpenter’s tools well and skilfully, straightening my work by drawing a line on the wood, and making it into a bed-prop. I then bored a hole down the middle, and made it the centre-post of my bed, at which I worked till I had finished it, inlaying it with gold and silver; after this I stretched a hide of crimson leather from one side of it to the other. So you see I know all about it, and I desire to learn whether it is still there, or whether any one has been removing it by cutting down the olive tree at its roots.”

Pretty sick bed! One day I will build a bed like this.

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