An Apple A Day

"The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that gives us our own small satisfactions.” (Billy Joel) A glimpse of my everyday scenes, through my Iphone.

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"Somebody pick me up, dust me off bring me to life,  Pretty broken baby,  pick me up, dust me off, bring me to life. "

--- from the song "Broken Doll" by Anna Nalick

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"The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.”  --- Peggy Fleming  (American figure skater, 1968 Winter Olympics)

Watching diver Tom Daley "christen" the olympic diving pool in the Aquatic centre. Today officially marks the 1 year countdown to London Olympics. 

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“She's tough, she's confident. It's funny, our beauty standard has become harder and tougher because we live in a tough age. I don't think anyone wants to walk down the street and feel vulnerable. You want to walk down the street and feel like you're in control.” --- Tom Ford

Street scene while driving around London.

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"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven; A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance."  Ecclesiastes 3:1,2,4 

Springtime.  Time to plant.  

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" Little girls are cute and small only to adults.  To one another they are not cute.  They are life-sized."   ~Margaret Atwood

Hyde Park on the day of the Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding.

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M&S staff goes shopping elsewhere for "quality food that's honestly priced"........

"Loyalty cannot be blueprinted. It cannot be produced on an assembly line. In fact, it cannot be manufactured at all, for its origin is the human heart-the center of self-respect and human dignity. It is a force which leaps into being only when conditions are exactly right for it-and it is a force very sensitive to betrayal." — Maurice R. Franks

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I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong? ~Willie Nelson

Enjoying my Bhang hot chocolate at the only government licensed Bhang shop in Jaisalmer. Bhang is a derivative of marijuana.

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"Save water. Shower with a friend". 

My shower room in a hut in Khuri, India after a camel ride.

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”You can drop humans anywhere and they'll thrive ----- only the rat does as well."

~ Jeannette Desor

Holy rats!! Karni Mata Temple or Temple of Rats at Deshnok, India. The rats are considered incarnations of storytellers.

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"Top of the pops for me used to be The Diary of Anne Frank.  When I was a teenager, I used to really want to be Anne Frank.  Not the ending obviously, just the idea of living very simply in an attic, reading boks, keeping my diary, falling in love with the pale, sensitive Jewish boy in the attic next door.  That sounds a little bit perverse, doesn't it?"  ~Alice, from the book

Brings back a lot of memories when I was growing up in the 80s….trying to fit in, wanting to be in the “in crowd”, problems with acne, teenage love, and more.

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Bernadette: [to Shirley] "Now listen here, you mullet. Why don't you just light your tampon, and blow your box apart? Because it's the only bang you're ever gonna get, sweetheart!"

Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Palace Theatre, London. What an amazing show. Absolutely LOVED it!!!

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"We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own kept secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph."  ~ Elie Wiesel from the Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code (lifted from one of the introductory pages of the book)

Didn’t think I’d enjoy reading about science and cells but I thought this book was a very good read.

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"Oh, SPAM, oh SPAM Gourmet Delight!  My food by day, my dreams by night!" ~ Author unknown.

Full Ode to SPAM via http://humor.luquette.org/ode_to_spam.htm

Sometimes, SPAM just hits the spot. Especially when you’re all alone having dinner on the couch, watching mindless programmes on the telly. Junk food for the body, mind and spirit.

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"As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula". ~ Dave Barry

Tetanus and Hepa-B jabs for next week’s trip to India. Thanks to nurse Sheela from the medical centre.

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“Don’t cook. Don’t clean. No man will make love to a woman because she waxed the linoleum — my god, the floor’s immaculate. Lie down, you hot bitch.” ~ Joan Rivers

Hahaahahhaaaa!  The joys of cleaning on a Sunday morning.

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Coffee is balm to the heart and spirit. ~~ Guiseppe Verdi

Best cappuccino…..made@ home. Perfect for a grey, wet Saturday.

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Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.  ~~Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Mills and Boon pop-up store at Selfridges. Great girlie treat for valentines day. I loved Anne Mather and Charlotte Lamb when I was in high school.