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Wednesday, March 31, 2004

I think, no I'm sure DHNettes and DHNers are for Peace. Peace, not at any price, no, but Peace as much as it is possible. So I thought you're peaceful gang might enjoy the concept of using self-love to end conflic! hehe Well, I don't know if it works really, but trying is easy, neeee?! Anyway, it's political (yes yes it is) but I like the approach! Now let's all sing the I Cum in Peace Song! I cum in peace I want you to know it When I fear war I reach down and stroke it laaalalalaa
		from Candy Froggie 10:05 PM

Gota finish this sodding VAT...and the day is so lovely and sunny and spring like. How ironic it is that the last three months have proven to be financially crap. Over this same period, Biz has fallen by almost 40% compared to last year. I knew it was bad, but not this bad. I feel like I have been boycotted. And I have just doubled my debt by investing in new equipment. Well, the Spring holidays begin next week, if no improvement begins to show by then... anyway, I have no other option but to carry on for the moment. Carry on regardless.
		from Jack 9:59 AM

Tuesday, March 30, 2004

Alistair Cook & Peter Ustinov. Both gone today. Both erudite and charming men with a gentle, intelegent sense of humour. The world is very much poorer for their passing. Peter: "When first I went to school here in Britain, I saw a painting of Jesus on the wall. He was leaning down and taking the hand of a boy scout. With his other hand Jesus gestured to a map showingthe huge extent of the British Empire. Well, put it down to my foriegn breeding if you will, but I sensed immediatly that everything was not correct!" Alistair Cook introduced me at a very young age to the art of letter writing and conversation as I listened to his weekly 'Letter from America' I have not heard from this for many years, yet until recently, I understand that he was still producing his 'letters' which were broadcast on the BBC.
		from Jack 11:35 AM

Monday, March 29, 2004

I see Candy & Martin have become graffiti artists hehe What a great game on Saturday night! Well done the blues, you deserved your victory, no doubt, but, if those two missed penalties had gone over... hehe The last few mins were exciting were they not? Nearly snatched it away from you huh? Spent the day wandering around garden centers yesterday... found a bridge for the pond which will look great! Had a relaxing breakfast in a deserted pub, reading the Sunday papers together without the kids...bliss! In the paper I read about the dreadfull fate of many Iraqi woman who are snatched away from there homes and gang raped for weeks and then shot. One such woman, typical of their fate, survived long enough in hospital to tell her story. She gave up and died knowing her family would not visit her and disowned her because she had dishonored them... how cruel is this? The I read about the young men who were shot for 'desertion' from the British Army in WW1 The British, unlike their allies, were all to keen to kill their own men... visit this web site to lean more. Dreadful. http://www.shotatdawn.org.uk/
		from Jack 10:10 AM

Hugggles you DHN gang! I hope all is fine in your corner of the world today! *~~^* * I forgot to show you.... See what we've done in Hamburg!!! hehehe ;-) The result is fine, hm?!!! (I've found this creative lil thingie via Etolane's site... thank you m'am!)
		from Candy Froggie 8:04 AM

Thursday, March 25, 2004

Any thoughts?
		from Jack 10:07 AM

Wednesday, March 24, 2004

Painted around 1594, this picture has no sure explanation as to its theme (paintings of that period were often metaphors). Any ideas ? Any inspiration ?
		from M'Zelle Jenny 10:30 PM

Tuesday, March 23, 2004

This is my interpretaton of your pic Jack.... "I am the Black Widow. Though my skin be white as snow, my soul is as dark as a moonless night. Many have I seduced and in seeming love embraced. Many have tasted Death upon my blood red lips. None has lived to tell. For as soon as their fiery lust is spent do I show my true face. Caught in my web they writhe and shout as I do devour them. Forever the Black Widow."
		from M'Zelle Jenny 10:34 PM

Gutten Abend, DHNgang! How are you all? Tired? In good shape? Needing holidays? Full of energy? I saw that you Jack have been in a very photo and pic week (really nice new pics in your Gallery, btw). That's kewl! I'm writting bloggies instead of working on illustrations... I'd paint with pleasure, but gotta work on this second book about a kid dealing with dyslexia (first one was with hyperactivity). And I'm not inspired at all. Booooo, where's my inspiration muse!!! Playing again with some naughty centaurs I bet! Anyway, as you've seen we've had real good holidays. We did not really need more now I think of it. It would have been too much on a high level, we'd have come back totally exhausted. But no, we're back just in time to feel all the positive effects: boiling energy. I think the fact we managed to make so many cool things in such a lil time gave a new rythm to our winter life. Let's see how long it lasts! (crossing bits)
		from Candy Froggie 10:32 PM

Saturday, March 20, 2004

Here are some more pics of London, more in my 'latest pics' album.
		from Jack 10:45 AM

The desire that is forbidden is sweetest tasting. Succumb to temptation and allow me to devour your body and mind with lust and carnality. Let me suckle your virgin breasts, caress your milky soft skin, probe your secret places and invade your pure body with my heat and essence. I will flood your inner being with sinful thoughts and feelings. Come to me now and abandon yourself to the devil, the Satan in your heart. (I saw this pic and it inspired me to write that... hehe)
		from Jack 9:56 AM

Tuesday, March 16, 2004

ok..here is my picture, I walked accross the street and took this, on the first real warm day of Spring, just a few mins ago. The building on the right is The White Heart pub, my place is on the far left, just out of shot in dark shadow.
		from Jack 3:45 PM

Friday, March 12, 2004

I have been unable to get out and about to do this photo contest thing... but I managed to materialise my guardian angel though...here is a picture of her! Want to listen to a very funny radio show? From where the Monty Python team learnt their craft... go to this link and listen to the madness! http://goons.fabcat.org/
		from Jack 2:13 PM

Thursday, March 11, 2004

hahaaaa, I know just the idea of it might be painful for some hard workers here, but.... we're on holidays and I feel like ready to paint both France and Germany rilly purple! hehe Well these 10 days of holidays are well deserved because you see... as new parents, we nebber get the opportunity to go out and get properly drunk!!!! It gonna be our time :P RoaaaaRRRRR! If I'm sober enough (such a lady I am) to find a puter in a pub, I'll come and see how baaaadly you behave :P **huggggles and scrufffffffles~~^ * *
		from Candy Froggie 9:53 PM

Cold Snowy Morning to You, DHNettes and DHNers ! Brrr..... It's a good hing I know spring is just around the corner because it certainly doesn't LOOK like it. It's snowing heavily here, and although the snow isn't sticking to the roads, the trees are already outlined in white. But, as I said, I don't mind. In fact, anticipating something pleasant is very nice, specially when you know it's coming very soon. I've been having second thoughts about having a baby these days. It's a difficult decision to make and having pestered Fred on and off for more than a year (in fact, much more), I know feel I'm not so sure. Things that scare me : the preganancy, of course. I've read so many things about the unpleasant things that happen during pregnancy. Not something I'm looking forward to. Then, of course, theres the actual birth. Makes me shiver. I don't know how good (or bad) I am at dealing with physical pain. I've never really had to suffer physically up to now. Plus, I think I would like to give birth without having an epidural. I don't know why.... Or rather, I think it's because I don't like the idea of not being able to feel my limbs. All my friends have given birth that way. The only person I knwo who didn't is my Mum. And she didn't seem traumatized. But then, she didn't have the choice then, did she ? Then there's the way your body changes, sometimes dramatically. I'm frightened of putting on a lot of weight and I am also very worried about my veins. Then, of course, there's being up to the job when the baby's there. Being able to do without sleep for a long time. And being patient (which I am not) with the baby and with Fred ! I'm also frightened of us becoming estranged, specially as some of our friends who had a child last year are having relationship problems at the moment. So, any good points ? I expect so, or nobody would go throught the whole process of having kids ! As I am 34 already (I was 20 the other day !), I think it would be a good idea to try and have a baby. But I'm not so sure anymore....
		from M'Zelle Jenny 9:47 AM

Tuesday, March 09, 2004

Huggerroooonies Possumy Ones :-) ^^^*^ Finally I found a pic that I could post for the "50 paces picture" - I've been digging in the photo albums/boxes for days trying to find one that had a view of our street. The pic is about three years old but it pretty well looks much the same today as it did then - the only thing different is the fence has new wire on it. 'K....the pic was taken from the footpath outside Chez Sillan (facing east). The blurry person is Happy Mac and the blurry dawg is Podgee :-) I'm a liddle disappointed that I had to use this pic 'cause I had grabbed GC's digital camera and taken pics on Friday (much bedder ones of course! hehe) during the big storms we were having at the time. I'd even taken some of the storm surges at the beach front so that I could show ewes how amazing it looked. Buuuuuutttt......for some reason I could not get the camera software to work properly on Gertie and I couldn't get the pics off the camera (arrrrghhhh!!). I dunno why, it's worked before. To say that I was frustrated was an understatement - Gertie is very lucky to not have been very unceremoniously thrown out the door I tell you!! I lost all da pics on the camera 'cause one of the troubleshooting things to do was format the memory card on the camera - by that time I was wayyy past being concerned about the pics anyhooo....all I wanted was to get everything working properly. Anyhow....next time I takes pics, I'm just gonna download them on to GC's computer then e-mail them to myself - wish I woulda thought of that the other day! hehe
		from Ms Penny 8:02 AM

Monday, March 08, 2004

I am somewhat late posting my "50 paces picture", but here we go at last: I walked right in the opposite sense as Candles for her photo with the Eiffel tower. Our street is right behind the church. Lola was baptized there last august and when our windows are open the bells can make us outright crazy (some days there seems to be a mass every 2 hours ;-) Jack, I am waiting for some compliment on how well I straightened the perspective for keeping the buildings from falling towards the center of the picture! hehe ...and, by the way, we are all waiting to see the work of a real professional (and are impatient to see what it looks like at your british front door). Somebody has an idea for the next topic, while we're waiting for the pics of the other DHNers?
		from Martin 9:59 PM

Happy new weeeek, ewws DHGang! How are you doing on your corners of the planet? You've had a fine weekend? We've had a great one, with a generous Lola making 2 full nights in a row without crying, with a lil family lunch on sat', then finally doing NOTHING till monday morning. And my cherry on the cake: Martin took Lola for a huge walk on Sunday morning so that I could take care of myself only, for a bit. I had forgotten somehow how it felt ! (Thank ewwwwwws Lola and Martin *~~^* ) After so much zenitude*, I'm starting the week with much more energy than usual. It feels guuud too. Laziness makes miracles!
		from Candy Froggie 6:20 PM

Saturday, March 06, 2004

Two or three things I have learned about drinking : - it makes womens' testosterone levels soar and they behave more like men - it makes people of the opposite sex (or the one you're interested in) seem 25% more attractive - it makes you go dehydrated and that actually makes the brain shrink ! - once there is no alcohol left in your body, you still canot concentrate properly for THREE hours - last but not least, in the long run, alcohol increases men's oestrogen level, which means their testicles shrink and their mammal glands start growing breasts !
		from M'Zelle Jenny 10:05 AM

Thursday, March 04, 2004

Basic, but efficient :P I've nebber been ermmm sensitive to uniforms, but well.... there are exceptions!
		from Candy Froggie 10:13 PM

It wasn't easy to find an interesting view less than fifty paces away from my front door. I went to post a letter yesterday around 6 o'clock and I thought the moon was really beautiful. So I took a pic. Course, my camera isn't very good and there wasn't much light... Anyway, this is a view of our flat under the moon. Another shade of blue...
		from M'Zelle Jenny 7:34 AM

Wednesday, March 03, 2004

Okies, Here's my pic to answer the topic of Lola's Papa: ""Take a picture of a view you want to show us, not more that 50 paces away from your front door" I took it yesterday morning. We live in the street where I stand to take the pic, crossing this one. And a bit further to the right (50 other paces), there's our arrondissement city-hall. A very cliché photo :P (at least you can't tell we live in New-York or Copenhagen ;-))
		from Candy Froggie 12:29 PM

Yesterday night in a newsgroup I stumbled across the following. It sounds so logical I just wanted to share it with you :-) The internet being a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates? Have a good day!
		from Martin 12:10 PM

Monday, March 01, 2004

Lotsa work, and so, shame on me, I completely forgot... So, here comes the photo topic for the week : "Take a picture of a view you want to show us, not more that 50 paces away from your front door" Good shooting :-)
		from Martin 11:24 PM

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