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~

i need a swimming pool...STAT

[i-am-scowling.livejournal.com]

mmmm, lentil soup! enjoy, sleepyhead :)

[la-magarita.livejournal.com]

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

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

[twinner.livejournal.com]

Which version of The Secret Garden?

[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...

[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.

[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!

[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.

[desayuno-ingles.livejournal.com]

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

[psyfi.livejournal.com]

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

[4q.livejournal.com]

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

She had red hair just like me!

[damiella.livejournal.com]

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