before anyone of you complains that i'm hiding the D.K from the world....

( here she is! )

it's freezing cold out there ( Read more... )

Had an unusually nice and varied weekend... I guess that's going to happen more and more often since I'm now 'free' at weekends. For the past 8 years I have snobishly claimed that I did not give a damn working at weekends, since I did not want to be off with the 'masses'... but I have to admit it has been, so far, strangely satisfying to go with ( Read more... )

oooh my god, i loooove monkey he is sooo cool ( Read more... )

So here are some new pictures of the marvelous, the incredible, the fantabulistic
BOOCAT!

Here Sleepy:


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Monkey's teaching today was 'like a fart in a colander', which he explains as "something that keeps moving around, fidgety, you know, stuff like 'hat".
[He also told me to 'keep [my] hair on', whatever that means; I mean, I'm FRENCH for ^%$(* sake, what does he expect me to understand?]
Also, thanks to petitpoussin I now know what 'I wouldn't put it pas him' ( Read more... )

Monkey and I went to the Citizens and Kings show at the Royal Academy this morning, a very interesting analysis of portrait painting in Europe between 1760 and 1830. It reminded me my old 19th century courses when I was an undergraduate in Paris and I felt both very old and melancholy ( Read more... )

See Denis Darzacq's baffling Down and Out in Paris exhibition.

Also, an astonishing scientific claim over why cats purr.

Also, Great Britain was this week end celebrating the Bicententenary of the Slave Trade Act (1807) [see also here and here; although slavery was not abolished in the British Empire before 1833, 1807 remains a very important ( Read more... )

Been to a computer fair today with the monkey, to buy a new brain to Barbara (his computer, not his mum), who got brain-dead last week. it's unbelievable how geeks at computer fairs... exactly look like (and smell like) what you would expect of Geeks(spots, greasy hair, sweaty scent, unprobable mix of clothes, etc). yeah, i know, i'm nasty, but ( Read more... )

'Darling...? Darliiiiiiing?'
'I WANT A TIGER!'


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