Souls Being Saved by the Sun

[dotinthesky]

London is friggin hot, innit? Lovely 24 celsius, shorts, t-shirt, coconut stuff on the skin (40+), towels over the duck shit hiding in the grass and blossoming daisies. Families rowing the boats in Regent's Park, ice cream stalls, sunglasses, hats, The Guardian, Tesco's water bottles & sandwiches & bananas & oranges & mangoes. Kevin's mini-iPod on random, plenty of Magnetic Fields to keep me happy.

Working the white away from my skin, but it takes time and dedication. The sky so blue, the tourists, families and couples falling on the grass beside us as if by exhaustion. Everyone exposing their skin. Kevin in the shade, reading The People's Act of Love. A little black girl in a white dress stops beside me, bends down, plucks a daisy from the grass then runs after her mom. Ducks escort their offspring to the water. The rowers drift over the warming water just a stone throw away from us. A woman purchases a lawn chair for £2, lights up a fag and gets down to her sagging bikini.

A walk home by Baker Street, past the crowds carrying their picnic bags to Regent's Park. Tesco's again for dinner & croissants. I show Kevin a short cut to Maida Vale library.

Only in Britain will you find construction workers, on a sunny Saturday afternoon, singing at the top of their lungs to David Bowie.

We rent (and just watched) Nicholas Nickelby. *Le Sigh*. Must watch My Summer of Love and Koma by Monday. Three movies from the library cost a total of £2.30 to rent.

And it's only 6.42 pm

Comments

[roguejournal.livejournal.com]

it will never be cold here.....lovely weather, too!

[gradually-awake.livejournal.com]

My friend, you write beautifully. I would love to be there (particularly for the construction workers singing Bowie). Your descriptions are the next best thing.

Seattle has been muggy and rainy, with just enough sun breaks to suck the moisture from the earth back into the air and fill the population with angst.

Mango iced tea in a few, then I'm off to mow the lawn.

[desayuno-ingles.livejournal.com]

Whoa. That is one pretty boy!

[beeorkendurkey.livejournal.com]

What's the difference between Tesco's and Sainsbury's? (Is that right? Do they both go apostrophe ess?)

hey, look!

[desayuno-ingles.livejournal.com]

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/ap/20060602/114930750000.html

[tete-glitter.livejournal.com]

Nas últimas semanas o clima aqui tem estado bem bom até, comparado com o calor que faz no Rio normalmente. No dia mais quentinho da semana passada fez 24 graus! :)
Só é pena que aqui não tenha os parques ótimos que têm aí. Eu não ia sair do parque nos finais de semana!

Ah, e qual música do Bowie eles estavam cantando??

[hunterjr.livejournal.com]

You could send me some sunshines, couldn't you? XD
It's our time to be frozen in the cold and impersonal winter nights. Ok, it's not that cold here, but I guess you guys are hotter than we are right now :)