Weekend at the Parks

[dotinthesky]

Went to Hyde Park yesterday; went for a picnic in Regent's Park today. City is sunbathed; all the boys walk around shirtless; all the girls spray their bodies with water and fix their bikinis. Chocolate cookies, baguettes, bree cheese, malibu mixed with juice inside an old water bottle, two white sheets on the grass and the clouds surfing between the leaves. Children on the paddle boats, joggers, sweat dripping off the human barbeques, tattoos as black as the coffee in the boat house, pigeons drowsily following our whistles, frisbees on the hands of Indian children, sleep with my head on my backpack, The Guardian's book review nestled between my legs.

At home, The Secret Garden on TV. If I was a little girl, I would cry and call it the most perfect movie of all times. Wonder about Anne of Green Gables in the library, suddenly a perfect Summer read. And Saint Etienne's single collection, bought yesterday in a Notting Hill second-hand store, breezes the ironic pop cheese into our rooms - it is perfect for this warm Summer weekend.

My turn to cook dinner tonight: Tomato and lentil soup, salad, more baguettes with butter, cold water from the tap. Then Big Brother, then Truman Capote, then sleep for the swimming pool that awaits me tomorrow morning.

Comments

[space-blues.livejournal.com]

:] i absolutely adore the secret garden!!!
pretty much all versions of it~

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I've never read the book... how does it compare to the movie?

i need a swimming pool...STAT

[i-am-scowling.livejournal.com]

mmmm, lentil soup! enjoy, sleepyhead :)

Re: i need a swimming pool...STAT

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

thanks! Twas lovely. :)

[la-magarita.livejournal.com]

A descrição do parque, demais!!! Vc é escritor mesmo! hahaha!

Que delicia, calorzinho! Aqui está esfriando!!! Brrrrrr

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Friozinho no Brasil faz bem... muito calor enjoa, ne?

[twinner.livejournal.com]

Which version of The Secret Garden?

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

The most recent movie version... it was my first contact with this story.

[twinner.livejournal.com]

I like old Hollywood films so my favorite version of The Secret Garden starred Margaret O'Brien, Dean Stockwell, & Herbert Marshall; have you seen the episodes of Avonlea, which starred Sarah Polley? --- used to enjoy watching them on the Disney Channel every Monday night --- such old-fashioned nostalgia.......

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I never saw Avonlea, only the 80s Anne of Green Gables miniseries, which I liked a lot. Nostalgia is good on hot Summer days.

[tonight-we-fly.livejournal.com]

As a nice irony, my friendly gang were sitting outside the old Hyde Park Corner tube station (now a pizza restaurant) at around 3:30pm yesterday afternoon, as part of our adventure. Bloody hell, it was much too hot...

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

It's just ideal for me! Loving the heat and hope it stays for the rest of Summer...

[chicagoenne.livejournal.com]

The Secret Garden was a favorite of mine when I was a kid - actually it still is, both versions of it that I have seen.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

And have you read the book? Which of the two movies do you prefer?

[roguejournal.livejournal.com]

The Secret Garden is such a lovely film!! i love it so much!!
the book is even better...you should read it!

:)

olha só o naipe dos filmes que eu adoro....
The Secret Garden
Amélie
LOTR
acho que ainda estou na infância!!!

viche, menino!

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Haha! Me lembro que a Ronise me escreveu uma vez pedindo para eu procurar a trilha sonora do filme aqui, pois ela adorava tambem. Eu gosto destes filmes que voce mencionou, entao devo estar na infancia tambem!

[dickon-edwards.livejournal.com]

Growing up with the name Dickon, I'm biased, but I do love the Secret Garden. A kiddie-rehab-spiritual classic, indeed. There's been about 20 attempts to adapt it for TV or movies, including a silent one from 1919 - I'd love to see that.

But the 1993 version with Maggie Smith, which was on TV today, is generally considered the best.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I usually have a hard time with children in movies and tv, but the ones in this movie did an actually good job! It was a very nice way to spend the afternoon. :)

[desayuno-ingles.livejournal.com]

I thought Brits were supposed to be "shy." At least that's what someone told me. : )

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Maybe in Sherlock Holmes time. These days, they'll get their booty out at the first sign of a blue sky (that is, not often at all!)

[desayuno-ingles.livejournal.com]

hehehehe....

[psyfi.livejournal.com]

Random comment: I miss going for a swim....:(

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

No swimming pools near you?

[psyfi.livejournal.com]

there is, but i always enjoy the company at swimming pools....
:( so taht i can play while swimming....:P

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

No friends like swimming?

[psyfi.livejournal.com]

apparently not....

[4q.livejournal.com]

I looooooooooooove Anne of Green Gables. I read all of those books endlessly.

She had red hair just like me!

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I know... did you like the TV show? I might have shed a tear or two when I saw it for the first time. :P

[4q.livejournal.com]

you know I can't remember...I do think I watched road to avonlea the fist few years, but not for a long period of time.

I love the movies though. Megan Follows is brilliant. She was the embodiment of Anne!

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

She really was. It was a sort of curse on her career though, because she never did anything good after that.

[4q.livejournal.com]

true enough, but sometimes if someone is so perfect for a roll, maybe that's all they were meant to do?!

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I agree! Are there any good Canadian shows on tv at the moment?

[damiella.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a lovely weekend! I need to spend more time in parks...

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

It was absolutely great! For every good weekend I'm going to try to squeeze a picnic or two in... there's something really relaxing about spending an afternoon on the grass, eating, watching people, dozing...

[damiella.livejournal.com]

That is one of my goals for the summer. Maybe if things go well with J, I'll ask if he wants to have a picnic (after all, I live half a block from Brooklyn's biggest park).

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

That would be a great date! :)