Louisa Parry

3BT – my own time, HUM(our), sunlight dancing

louisa — Thu, 17 May 2012 10:35:25 +0000

1. I’m lucky that I can wake up in my own time nearly every morning but some mornings I’m more grateful than others. Today is one of them.

2. The RadMac show on 6Music runs a list of puns of things vaguely rhyming with ‘tune’: the ridiculousness of the suggestions gets me giggling almost instantly.

3. The soft sunlight – filtered through four layers of glass and shaped like an ancient rune – dances on ceiling.

3BT – watching him, watching us, still dusk

louisa — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:03:29 +0000

1. We drink our breakfast tea on the balcony and listening to the chickens buck-bucking below. I watch Boron do his rounds, checking on next door’s garden, and when I say his name, he looks up and slow-blinks at me.

2. Lily leans around the steps to look inside the shop, her mouth slightly open in excited anticipation of our return. By the time I step out the door, she’s stood up, tail wagging; the HEARTLESS ABANDONMENT of the previous few minutes forgotten.

3. The stillness of the evening. The silhouette of the oak tree against the fading light.

Things I’ve been doing and saying in the week ending 13 May 2012

louisa — Sun, 13 May 2012 15:07:17 +0000

13 May 2012

	Posted really_good: Want a super quick (3-4 hours max) crochet project to get me back into yarn stuffz. Any ideas?.
	Posted louisa_: Waiting. http://t.co/KbFmixyC.
	Published 3BT – smooth, tangy, super market.
	Published 3BT – bacon, beech tree, surprise curry.
	Published 3BT – for purpose, pink and perfect, rotund relaxation.
	Published 3BT – scent, back to classes, filthpots, soggy Spring.
	Posted really_good: Lily wants to sample the hens’ treats. Am explaining to her if they eat them, they’ll make eggs for her instead :) http://t.co/b6EQL0Vd.
	Posted really_good: @katethejuggler: and that’s why she’s a round hound :).
	Posted really_good: @CoopAndTheGang tell me about it! 100% lay rate at the moment. Lemon meringue pie is on our list this week. Choc mousse is good too :).
	Posted really_good: Two people on my Twitter feed have posted about finding lost chickens this morning. Am rather paranoid I’ve lost mine now! :).
	Posted really_good: RT @MassObsArchive: Remember that Mass Observation will be collecting day diaries written on the 12th May 2012: http://t.co/7keJhyBv Ple ….
	Posted really_good: Nearly put a pair of red socks in a load of white washing. Such a cliche mistake to nearly make :).
	Posted louisa_: @thattommyhall I nearly always run upstairs – using my hands as well as my feet — another childhood habit :).
	Posted really_good: @MsLogica: funnily enough, as I was damming a stream today, I thought I should get that list to do it all as well. I’m 32! #bigkid.

3BT – scent, back to classes, filthpots, soggy Spring

louisa — Wed, 09 May 2012 23:11:23 +0000

1. The smell – a pleasantly, slightly perfumed smell – reminds me of someone I know. I’m not sure who but I must like them as it makes me smile without thinking.

2. It’s lovely to see how some of the kids have been transformed by working on the show – the workshops are a delight.

2b. I’m tickled by his ability to do the Herbert the Pervert whistle as he talks and the other lad’s ability to add “dad” or “mum” to the end of sentences to make them hilariously wrong.

3. Wet petals in puddles as I walk up the road.

3BT – for purpose, pink and perfect, rotund relaxation

louisa — Wed, 09 May 2012 22:59:40 +0000

1. The dining table is often used as a dumping ground for misc – especially during the recent house renovations – so it’s a pleasure to have it clear to use for actually dining.

2. I didn’t have a lot of faith in the gammon joint but it turns out well: it’s not too salty (like some gammon) and the decorative cloves add a surprisingly lovely flavour.

3. The dog leans heavily against my legs; the cat lies heavily along my side. The heaviness is heavenly.

3BT – bacon, beech tree, surprise curry

louisa — Wed, 09 May 2012 22:47:33 +0000

1. Salty Swillington bacon for breakfast.

2. A beech tree has fallen down in the horses’ field! We explore it thoroughly – the exposed roots, the just-set-to-leaf buds and where the trunk had split open in the pressure of the fall. I climb up the trunk like Batman up a building.

3. Piles of pulses: tarka daal and channa masala for dinner. Makes up for the meaty breakfast!

3BT – smooth, tangy, super market

louisa — Wed, 09 May 2012 22:25:26 +0000

1. The house – a friend’s family home – is so very ‘us’ that it’s like looking into a highly desirable future. There are so many things I like about it that I’d never be finished listing them but the thing that strikes me the most are the three, odd wooden chairs around the table in the kitchen, the wood on the arms worn smooth from years of hands.

2. The strong lemony after-taste from a wood sorrel leaf.

3. The dog with odd eyes stares at us as we enter. The first aisle smells strongly of melon or peach, something pleasantly fruity anyway. A perfectly floury batch loaf. But the highlight without a doubt are the Sicilian olives.

Things I’ve been doing and saying in the week ending 6 May 2012

louisa — Sun, 06 May 2012 15:06:22 +0000

6 May 2012

	Posted How can I reuse or recycle toilet seats?.
	Posted recycle_this: .: How can I reuse or recycle toilet seats? http://t.co/PgijApze.
	Posted louisa_: Not sure how to vote in either the elected mayor question or the local council election. Wish Green was a viable choice here :(.
	Posted really_good: Not cooked for a week+! Couldn’t think what to put in marinade – the flavour coordinating part of my brain must have died from malnutrition..
	Posted really_good: Rained stopped play in the garden but at least we – the chickens and me – all got some pottering done before that :).
	Posted louisa_: Yesterday felt like a tuesday and today feels like a monday. Am confused..
	Posted louisa_: Lovely afternoon and evening reading on my new favourite chair in the dining room. Was accompanied by at least two animals at all times :).
	Published 3BT.
	Published 3BT – potential again, things to see, small kindness.
	Posted louisa_: One minute out of the house in heels – first time in a year or so – and I remember why I wear trainers the rest of the time..
	Posted louisa_: Lovely meal at Thai on Aire in Keighley – fab food and fab company, great send off for last week’s show :).
	Posted louisa_: Should have been at an AGM but instead went for a curry and chatted the evening away with @johnleach and @BassKemist. Much more fun :).
	Posted louisa_: @johnleach perhaps she just wants a lift around the corner..
	Posted louisa_: Finishing a lovely day stretched out on the sofa with all the animals :).

3BT – potential again, things to see, small kindness

louisa — Thu, 03 May 2012 12:05:11 +0000

1. To see green shoots appearing: the seeds have not rotted in the soil after all, hurrah.

2. We walk back from the polling station via an weedy snicket, the bridge over the canal and the woods. We spot long gone gates, broad beans & peas growing in my favourite house’s front yard, a cow & her calf in the hidden farmyard and a mini-orchard over the other side of the wall. In return, we’re spotted by two excited dogs, who run around tails wagging between the raised beds and trees.

3. The traffic on the far side of the road is rarely going anywhere fast – standing traffic backed up from the crossroads all afternoon – but it’s still a nice surprise when someone holds back to let me cross.

3BT – want back in, lots of them, relaxing reading

louisa — Wed, 02 May 2012 00:26:44 +0000

1. Four orange feathered faces watch me as I open the gate, then all pile inside. Usually they’re keen to get out of the run (into the terribly exciting garden) but today they want to go back in – to escape the rain and because they’ve heard a rumour that I have seed in there. They bustle in and clucked around my feet.

2. One of the best things about bean salad is that it’s hard to make a small batch of it. The pan – full of fibre, vitamins and tangs of vinegar & chilli – will bulk out our lunches this week in a rather delicious way.

3. To have nothing to do but read in my favourite chair as day transforms into night.