17th July – Tried to sew four borders onto a quilt, two long pieces and two short.\u00a0 I got two of them wrong.\u00a0 That has to be unusual.<\/p>\n
18th July – A friend told me about Cloud computing which I knew nothing about.\u00a0 A line from Joni Mitchell’s Both Sides Now<\/em> came into my head and stuck:\u00a0 I really don’t know clouds at all.<\/p>\n 19th July – My husband read my translation draft.<\/p>\n 20th July – In a sports shoe store with my son who is at the end of a flu bout, I saw his skin had a sickly green tint and I worried, until other people came in and turned green.\u00a0 It was the intense lighting, which was also giving the African-Australian shop assistant an intense headache (but not a green tint).<\/p>\n 21st July – A bottle of truffle-infused olive oil tells us that “Over 80% of women describe the odour of truffle oil as very sensual.” “Close your eyes, inhale the aroma,” it instructs. I’ve inhaled it twice and found I belong to the other 20%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 17th July – Tried to sew four borders onto a quilt, two long pieces and two short.\u00a0 I got two of them wrong.\u00a0 That has to be unusual. 18th July – A friend told me about Cloud computing which I knew nothing about.\u00a0 A line from Joni Mitchell’s Both Sides Now came into my head … <\/p>\n