The Sneaky Magpie

After being bored at work for few weeks I am in the thick of it. I am working on a very exciting project for WHO’s Unitaid. Sending a very very small crew with a camera to Cambodia, Nepal and Zambia. As usual there is no time to do anything in a normal way, am stressed but happy at the same time to be busy again.

I started to cycle to work every day on my small blue bike with a basket which leaves me exhausted. I also do Pilates every Thursday which I love but yesterday I thought I would fall asleep, I guess this is a combination of cycling, stress, heat (no air con at work just stagnant hot air) and running around getting visas and vaccinations sorted for my crew. As the week goes by I get more and more tired.

I was so happy when I got home this evening, am home alone tonight, I made a dinner and just lounged on a sofa watching movies, flipping through magazines and blogs. I am about to have a lavender bath and read a book that I got absolutely hooked on – Crimson Petal and the White. I don’t really read much modern literature but was being persuaded by one friend for a while and given the book as a birthday gift by other two friends so I didn’t have much choice. I am all about the lives of Sugar and William and co in Victorian London.

This weekend I am going to get a haircut, my hair is a mess, I go to 10500 in Notting Hill and only get cut by Magda, she is wonderful. I am also going to hang out with a friend who is visiting from Amsterdam. Really looking forward to just chilling out and not doing much. I might take advantage of my friend’s pool, she lives in a crazy mock-Tudor apartment block with an outdoor pool with salt water instead of chlorine. Sounds very tempting.

I am off to get relaxed in lavender fragrance.

So far this month…

… I’ve been to Oxford for a day, if you go you must visit the Pitt Rivers Museum – it’s got the craziest collection of ‘souvenirs’

…failed to go to the seaside due to the incorrect tickets/bad weather/ill husband

…Been catching up on movies, finally saw the Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuitton documentary and Control. Both are very good.

…Watched the whole two discs of Jan Svankmajers’s short films, love love love his animation

…been discovering Spotify, Blondie and David Bowie are on my playlist today

…ordered a veg box from Gregg the Vegman, it arrives tomorrow with some fabulous spring greens and asparagus, cannot wait, hope it’s good

…waiting impatiently for strawberries and peonies

…rediscovering Kurt Vonnegut

…celebrated my birthday at Wolseley, amazing place

…failed going to any exhibitions so MUST go to Tate Britain to see the Van Dyck show which finishes this weekend; will also hopefully catch Baroque (not my favorite period in art but Waldemar Januszczak made me curious) and Hats at V&A thanks to my lovely friend with a membership card

…started all healthy diet and signed up for weekly Pilates classes

…started reading the best Chanel biography ever

That’s all for now.