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Me gustan la gente, la comida, los muchos acontecimientos culturales, el hecho de que puedo ir andando a casi cualquier lugar. Pero echo de menos Nueva Zelanda. Una de las cosas que más echo de menos es tener un jardín. Echo de menos sentarme fuera, con el periódico, desayunando tarde un sábado por la mañana. Echo de menos salir un momento y coger un poco de cilantro fresco para la guarnición de un plato de comida tailandesa. Echo de menos el zumbido de las abejas en las matas de espliego. Echo de menos observar cómo las estaciones cambian las ropas con que se visten los árboles. Y echo de menos el olor de la hierba recién cortada.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Todos los colegios de Nueva Zelanda tienen campos enormes y, a menos que estén cerrados por la lluvia, allí es donde pasamos nuestros recreos y descansos para almorzar cuando vamos a la escuela. Podíamos rodar colina abajo, hacer cadenas con las margaritas, y cuando habían cortado la hierba la recogíamos y hacíamos cestos gigantes. Cuando éramos mayores, jugábamos a fútbol o a rugby y nos manchábamos los uniformes de hierba. Cuando llovía siempre había algún gilipollas que pisoteaba la hierba y mojaba y manchaba de barro a sí mismo y a los que estaban a su alrededor. Me dan pena los niños españoles que sólo tienen recreos de cemento en sus escuelas.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;El otro día estaba en casa de mi amigo gallego. Estaba cortando el césped, el olor de la hierba recién cortada impregnaba el aire, los sonidos de la cortacésped rompían la paz de esa tarde de sábado pero para mí eran una sinfonía. Mi padre corta el césped cada sábado y si cerraba los ojos podía imaginar que estaba en casa. Me senté para observar cómo trabajaba mi amigo, cómo domesticaba la naturaleza. Y después, al final de su labor, tenía estas gloriosas manchas de hierba en sus zapatillas.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Green&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;" lang="EN-US"&gt;I love living in Spain and I love Zaragoza. I like the people, the food, the many cultural events, my friends, the fact that I can walk just about everywhere. But I miss New Zealand. One of the things I really miss is having a garden. I miss sitting outside with the newspaper eating my breakfast late on a Saturday morning. I miss being able to nip outside and snip some fresh coriander to garnish a dish of Thai food with. I miss the buzz of the bees in the lavender bushes. I miss watching the seasons change the clothes the trees are dressed in. And I miss the smell of freshly cut grass.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;" lang="EN-US"&gt;All New Zealand schools have huge fields and unless they are closed due to rain that is where we spent our breaks and lunchtimes when at school. We could rolly polly down hills, we could make daisy chains, when the grass had been cut we would gather it and make giant nests. When we were older we would play soccer or touch rugby and get grass stains on our uniforms. When it rained there would always be some asshole that would stomp the grass and get themselves and those around them wet and muddy. I feel sorry for Spanish children who only have concrete recreation areas in their schools.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;" lang="EN-US"&gt;The other day I was at my Galician friend’s house. He was mowing the lawn, the smell of freshly cut grass was in the air, the sounds of a mower breaking the peace of that Saturday afternoon but for me it was a symphony. My father mows the lawn every Saturday and if I closed my eyes I could imagine I was home. I sat down to watch my friend at work, taming nature. It was a pleasure. And then at the end of his labors he had these most glorious grass stains on his shoes.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-8305989399275968948?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/8305989399275968948/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=8305989399275968948' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/8305989399275968948'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/8305989399275968948'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2010/09/hierba.html' title='Hierba'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/TJpuFtxbENI/AAAAAAAAAgk/fXLCjihHsl4/s72-c/antons+shoes.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-5483639260861820981</id><published>2010-09-19T11:45:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-09-19T12:06:36.512+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Roman Holiday</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/TJXfjzymaEI/AAAAAAAAAgc/3aMlFhntDWo/s1600/roma+pass.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; 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&lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Historia del Arte&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;La primera vez que fui a Roma fue en esa época loca en la que acabas de enamorarte de alguien. Habíamos estado dos días en Venecia y otros dos en Florencia y nuestra última parada en Italia era Roma. Roma era fantástica: las fachadas de los edificios, un Papa todavía caliente en su ataúd. Los susurros de la primavera en la brisa. En pocas palabras, un momento maravilloso para ser una neozelandesa enamorada de un español en Europa.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;He de admitir que estaba un poco nerviosa por mi vuelta. ¿Este viaje sería comparable al de hace casi seis años? Éramos más jóvenes, yo era más rubia (gracias a un tinte), más exótica que ahora (¿se puede ser exótico después de seis años?). Me alegra decir que esta vez fue mejor. No dejamos a Duccio de lado ni nos arriesgamos a tener problemas con la seguridad buscando baños o vagones vacíos mientras nos quitábamos la ropa. Pero hablamos, nos dimos la mano, comimos, nos sentamos, miramos, bebimos, aparte de meternos mano.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Los que lean con atención puede que hayan visto que en 2006, cuando pasamos por Italia, el Papa había muerto. Eso significaba que no pudimos ver la Capilla Sixtina, algo que había querido hacer desde que estudiaba Historia del Arte en el instituto. En esta ocasión pudimos. Tengo que decir que el viaje que lleva desde pagar 19 euros por los billetes que compramos en Internet para saltarnos las filas hasta pillar un dolor de cuello por mirar hacia arriba podría haber sido un placer absoluto (después de todo, ¿qué es el dinero frente a la belleza?), pero no lo fue.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Imagina un día de de verano a 35 C°. Imagina que estás metido en espacios cerrados con cientos, si no miles, de personas bajo ese calor. La mayor parte de ellos hacen fotos de sus seres queridos junto a cualquier cosa, dificultando que te muevas y aprecies el arte. Ahora imagina que esos espacios contienen incomparables artefactos históricos de la escultura y la pintura de la antigüedad y el renacimiento. Añade un edificio sin aire acondicionado. Es algo parecido a lo que como atea imagino que es el infierno.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Cuando finalmente llegamos a la Capilla Sixtina tras ser empujados por las multitudes, muchas de las cuales intentaban no perder a sus guías (una experiencia que podía entender, tras ir al Coliseo), fue por supuesto impresionante, y lo habría sido más si hubiera habido un límite para el número de visitantes. Y si el guardia de seguridad no hubiera estado mandando callar a la gente o si los altísimos altavoces no hubieran mandado callar a todo el mundo en al menos seis idiomas distintos.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Por supuesto, la avaricia está en el corazón de esta experiencia frustrante. El director de los Museos Vaticanos, Antonio Paolucci, ha declarado recientemente que los miles de visitantes están dañando los frescos. Nuestro pelo, las partículas de nuestra piel y nuestro aliento se acumulan en los frescos, y los dañan antes de que sean limpiados. Pero en lugar de limitar la entrada de visitantes -como hace otro museo romano, la Galería Borghese (donde no permiten la entrada de cámaras y donde hay aire acondicionado y un límite de 360 visitantes cada dos horas)- han aumentado el horario de apertura en verano para incluir sesiones nocturnas.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Art History&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;" lang="EN-US"&gt;The first time I went to Rome was during that crazy time when you are first in love with someone. We had been to Venice and Florence for two days each and our last stop in Italy was Rome. Rome was fantastic, the buildings seen from the outside, a Pope still very warm in his coffin. The whispers of spring on the breeze. In short a wonderful time to be a New Zealander in love with a Spanish man in Europe.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;" lang="EN-US"&gt;I must admit I was a little nervous about the return. Would this time measure up to that of nearly six years ago? We were younger, I was blonder (thanks to hair dye), more exotic than now (who can claim to be exotic after nearly 6 years together?) &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;I am happy to say that it was better. This time we didn’t ditch Duccio or tempt problems with security finding bathrooms or empty rail carriages in rip each other’s clothes off.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;But we talked, we held hands, we ate, we sat, we looked, we drank, apart from ripping each other’s clothes off.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;" lang="EN-US"&gt;Those reading closely may have picked up that in 2006 when we flitted through Italy, the Pope had died. This meant that we could not visit the Sistine Chapel, something I had wanted to do since studying Art History at high school. This time we could. I must say the journey from paying 19€ each for tickets bought online to skip the queues to getting a neck ache from looking up could have been an absolute pleasure (after all, what is money in the face of beauty?) but it wasn’t.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;" lang="EN-US"&gt;Imagine a summer’s day around 35 C°. &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Imagine being packed into confined spaces with hundreds if not thousands of people in this heat. Most of who are taking pictures of loved ones next to everything, making it difficult to move and to appreciate the art. Now imagine these spaces hold incomparable historical artifacts of ancient and renaissance sculpture and panting. Add a building without air-conditioning. You have something akin to what I as an atheist imagine hell to be.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;" lang="EN-US"&gt;When we finally arrived in the Sistine chapel after being pushed along by the multitudes, many who were trying to keep up with their tour guides (an experience I can sympathize with after having taken a tour of the Coliseum), it was of course breathtaking, and would have been more so if the amount of visitors had been limited to a set number. And if the security guard had not been shushing the masses or if the very loud speakers hadn’t shushed everyone after the guard in at least six different languages.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;" lang="EN-US"&gt;Greed of course is at the heart of this frustrating experience. The director of the Vatican Museums, Antonio Paolucci, has recently stated that the thousands of visitors are damaging the frescos. Our hair, our skin particles, our breath are collecting on the frescos, and are damaging them before they are removed. But instead of limiting visitor as does another Roman gallery, the Borghese Gallery (where photos, mobiles and bags are not permitted and where there is &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;air-conditioning and a limit of 360 visitors every two hours) they have extended summer hours to include night sessions. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;" lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-5483639260861820981?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/5483639260861820981/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=5483639260861820981' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/5483639260861820981'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/5483639260861820981'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2010/09/roman-holiday.html' title='Roman Holiday'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/TJXfjzymaEI/AAAAAAAAAgc/3aMlFhntDWo/s72-c/roma+pass.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-2833691964695252487</id><published>2010-08-22T19:13:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-08-22T20:30:55.271+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Crash II</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/THFbMU7BX7I/AAAAAAAAAgM/eNspeH7ltgI/s1600/star+mock+up+181.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; 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Me metí en la ducha pero tuve que entrar de nuevo para coger el jabón que había usado antes ese mismo día. Salí, pisé la alfombra del baño y luego pisé el suelo y salí volando. Aterricé sobre mi espalda y me deslicé por el baño hasta el pasillo (afortunadamente la puerta estaba abierta). Ése no fue uno de mis momentos más elegantes, ni tampoco unos segundos más tarde, cuando me empezó a doler el codo y vi la sangre y comencé a retorcerme y a gritar en el suelo. Todos tenemos una imagen mental de nosotros mismos y digamos que en los instantes que siguieron a mi caída la imagen que tengo de mi misma salía bastante pixelada.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;En cambio Dan era un modelo de calma y llamó a su madre, que es médico. Dan explicó qué veía: un corte profundo en mi codo derecho de un centímetro y medio de longitud, que sangraba abundantemente. No estaba seguro de si veía el hueso. Entre episodios de vómito –tengo un estómago muy delicado cuando escucho conversaciones detalladas sobre carne y sangre- doblé el codo todo lo que podía, para que Dan pudiera decirle a Carmen si podía ver el hueso.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Carmen llegó al día siguiente para mirar mi brazo y cubrir la herida adecuadamente. Dijo que debería haber ido al hospital porque mi codo necesitaba puntos, pero ahora era demasiado tarde, hay un espacio de unas seis horas para poner puntos. De todos modos, me aconsejó que fuera y me hiciera una radiografía porque había sido un golpe muy fuerte y podía tener alguna fractura. Fui después del trabajo, cuando España jugaba con Chile. Dan calculó que habría poca gente en urgencias durante el partido. Tenía razón, llegamos a las nueve y nos fuimos a las once. Mi brazo, que no estaba roto, estaba vendado desde la muñeca hasta casi la axila, en un cabestrillo. 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It was the day before Spain played Chile in the world cup. It was the day I had my last dance class before summer caused everything to ground to a slow halt. I arrived home at 2pm in a foul mood; I was just starting to get the hang of moving my body in a coordinated way and didn’t want to break that rhythm. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;I showered and applied body oil, part of my new routine of exercise and looking after my skin a bit more in the awareness that I was going to have to go swimming with bunches of students at the summer camp where I work every July and I wanted to look semi presentable in a bikini. Later that afternoon I had classes then Dan and I went out to dinner with friends. We arrived home just before midnight.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;I always shower before going to bed and that night was no exception (well in the end it was). I got into the shower but had to get out again to replace the soap I had used up earlier in the day. I got out, stepped on the bathroom rug and stepped off again and went flying, landed on my back and went sliding out of the bathroom into the hall (luckily the door was open). Not one of my most elegant moments, nor seconds later when the pain started in my elbow and I noticed blood and I started writhing around on the floor and yelling. We all have a mental image of ourselves and let’s just say in those moments following my fall my self-image was quite pixelated.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;Dan in contrast was the model of calm and phoned his mum Carmen who is a doctor. Dan explained what he saw, which was a deep cut in my right elbow about&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;one and half cm long, bleeding freely, he wasn’t sure if he could see the bone or not. In between bouts of vomiting – I have a very delicate stomach when it comes to listening to graphic conversations about flesh and blood - I bent my arm as much as I could so Dan could tell Carmen if he could see bone. L She said I should go to the hospital, I said I didn’t want to go to the hospital, it was just a cut and went to bed, bandaged and unshowered with instructions to keep my arm straight.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;Carmen came the next day to look at my arm and to dress the wound properly. She said I should have gone to the hospital because my elbow needed stitches but that it was too late to do anything about it, there is a six hour window for getting stitches, but I should go and get an x- ray because it was an extremely hard fall and I may have fractured something. I went after work, when Spain was playing Chile, Dan figured there would be very few people in emergency while the game was on. He was right, we got there at nine and left at eleven. My unfractured arm was bandaged from wrist to upper arm and in a sling with instructions not to use it. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;The week passed uncomfortably hot but quickly as I was working at summer camp. I found the bandage to be a great ice – breaker with my new students and a fantastic social aid. Strangers would come up to me in the street and ask what happened. People gave me their seats in the bus, waiters and shop assistants were extremely kind and helpful. Just about two months have passed since my fall and my wound has healed, it still hurts and I can’t lean on my elbow but I am looking forward to winter to see whether or not I can predict if it is going to rain with the help of my now dodgy elbow.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-2833691964695252487?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/2833691964695252487/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=2833691964695252487' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/2833691964695252487'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/2833691964695252487'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2010/08/crash-ii.html' title='Crash II'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/THFbMU7BX7I/AAAAAAAAAgM/eNspeH7ltgI/s72-c/star+mock+up+181.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-3033522943519319019</id><published>2010-01-18T12:43:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2010-01-23T18:51:32.396+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Crash</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/S1RKnqxNuTI/AAAAAAAAAfg/ue7je-vAGc8/s1600-h/new+camera,+lego,+eyeshadow,+dan+073.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/S1RKnqxNuTI/AAAAAAAAAfg/ue7je-vAGc8/s400/new+camera,+lego,+eyeshadow,+dan+073.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428045496244353330" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDani%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:595.3pt 841.9pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Maquillaje&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;"  class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;"  class="MsoNormal"&gt;Compré esta sombra de ojos cuando llegué a Evreux, en Francia. Había llevado muy poco maquillaje y quería tener buen aspecto en mi nuevo trabajo. Lo compré pensando que los 700 euros que ganaba al mes durarían más de lo que realmente duraban. Nunca había comprado Clarins antes pero me gustaba este conjunto particular porque contenía colores naturales que irían bien con mis ojos de color avellana.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" face="arial" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" face="arial" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" face="arial" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Tengo fotos de largas noches de juerga y mi sombra de ojos está igual que cuando me la puse. Todo mi maquillaje está en un pequeño estante del baño, no hay un día en que no caiga una cosa u otra. El otro día se cayó mi estuche de sombra de ojos Clarins. No sobrevivió la caída, se abrió cuando cayó al suelo y la sombra de ojos se esparció por todas partes. Estoy un poco triste por eso, ya que esas sombras habían viajado conmigo por todo el mundo. Pero ya lo he asumido y he comprado un nuevo estuche de Clarins con colores muy parecidos.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" face="arial" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" face="arial" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" face="arial" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Makeup&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" face="arial" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I bought this eyeshadow compact when I arrived in Evreux, France. I had bought very little makeup with me and I wanted to look nice in my new job. I bought it thinking that the 700 euros I was earning a month with go further than they actucually did. I had never bought Clarins before but I liked this particular quad as it consisted of natural colours that would go well with my hazel eyes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" &gt;I have photos of long nights out and my eye makeup looks as it did when I applied it. All my makeup is stacked on one little shelf in the bathroom, not a day goes by when something or other falls off. The otherday it happened to be my Clarins eyeshadow quad. It didn’t survive the fall, it opened and the shadow exploded everywhere. I am a little sad about that as those shadows had travelled the world with me. But I have moved on and I have bought a new Clarins quad with very similar colours.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-3033522943519319019?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/3033522943519319019/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=3033522943519319019' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/3033522943519319019'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/3033522943519319019'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2010/01/crash.html' title='Crash'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/S1RKnqxNuTI/AAAAAAAAAfg/ue7je-vAGc8/s72-c/new+camera,+lego,+eyeshadow,+dan+073.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-8893977140376388429</id><published>2009-10-26T13:15:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-10-26T13:23:30.986+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Respuesta</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SuWTCGQ4xiI/AAAAAAAAAfY/CHytHuxY788/s1600-h/Blog+hand.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 328px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SuWTCGQ4xiI/AAAAAAAAAfY/CHytHuxY788/s400/Blog+hand.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396881392723871266" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDani%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:595.3pt 841.9pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Guantes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;Creo que había vivido en España unos meses cuando tuve mi primer trabajo. Era enseñando inglés en una academia de Utebo. Un día fui a trabajar demasiado pronto, la academia no estaba abierta. Aproveché la oportunidad para ir a comprar. Recuerdo que estaba cogiendo manzanas cuando una mujer de unos treinta años se acercó y dijo: “En mi país, usamos guantes cuando tocamos fruta y vegetales”. Me quedé sin palabras, no recuerdo si dije algo o no, mi español era muy básico en ese momento. No tenía ni idea de lo de los guantes, no me había fijado en ellos, que estaban junto a las bolsas de plástico.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;Recuerdo que fui a trabajar enfadada y molesta. Mi jefa fue muy amable y dijo que no me preocupara, la mujer sólo era una xenófoba grosera. Durante un tiempo usé los guantes pero me parecían raros y difíciles de usar. Empecé a pensar en lo ridículo del guante en el supermercado. Las primeras dos cosas que pensé fueron que otra capa de plástico en el supermercado era excesiva y que la fruta debería lavarse antes de consumirse, al margen de como la compres.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;Desde entonces he investigado un poco y he descubierto que la fruta, y las manzanas en particular, pasan al menos diez etapas de manipulación antes de que las seleccione una mano envuelta o no envuelta en guantes. Algunas de esas etapas son:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;Recogida&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;Almacenamiento en cajas en el campo.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;Selección/Evaluacion.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;Extracción de las cajas.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;Encerado/Tratamiento químico.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;Empaquetado en nuevas cajas.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;Carga/Descarga.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;Distribución.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Exhibición.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Ahora dejo el tenedor y el cuchillo a y veinte y no a y media, a la hora de comer dejo las manos visibles en vez de tenerlas bajo la mesa, doy dos besos para saludar a la gente, digo adiós cuando me cruzo con un conocido por la calle. Todas estas cosas son diferencias culturales a las que me he adaptado. Pero me niego a usar un guante cuando compro fruta en un supermercado. Es una higiene falsa y es cara tanto del punto de vista económico como ecológico.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;Gloves&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I think I had been living in Spain for a few months when I got my first job. It was teaching English in an academy in Utebo. One day I got to work way too early, the academy wasn’t even open. I took the opportunity to do some grocery shopping. I remember choosing apples when a woman of around thirty years came up to me and said “in my country we use gloves when we touch fruit and vegetables”. I was left dumbstruck, I can’t remember if I said anything or not, my Spanish was very basic at that stage. I had no idea about wearing gloves, I hadn’t noticed them next to the plastic bags.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I remember going to work angry and upset. My boss was lovely and she said not to worry, the woman was just a rude xenophobe. For a while I used the gloves but I found them strange and clumsy to use. I began thinking about the ridiculousness of the glove at the supermarket. The first two things I thought were that another layer of plastic in the supermarket shopping experience was excessive and that fruit should be washed before consumption regardless of how you buy it.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I have since done some research and have found that fruit, in concrete apples, go through at least ten types of handling before they get to be selected by a gloved or ungloved hand. Some of these stages are:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;picking &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;field packing &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;sorting/grading&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;unpacking&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;w axing/chemical treatment &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;packaging&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;loading/unloading&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;distribution&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;display&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;"  lang="EN-GB"&gt;I now leave my knife and fork at 20 past not half past, I have my hands visible at meal times and not quietly under the table, I kiss people hello, I say goodbye when I see some I know on the street. All these things are cultural differences that I have adapted to. But I refuse to use a glove when choosing fruit at the supermarket. It is false hygiene and expensive monetarily and environmentally.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-8893977140376388429?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/8893977140376388429/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=8893977140376388429' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/8893977140376388429'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/8893977140376388429'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2009/10/respuesta.html' title='Respuesta'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SuWTCGQ4xiI/AAAAAAAAAfY/CHytHuxY788/s72-c/Blog+hand.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-5839919449871536565</id><published>2009-10-18T19:02:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-18T20:41:27.892+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Caza</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SttKmSle94I/AAAAAAAAAfQ/z3T458gTCBg/s1600-h/Frog+side+angle+cleaned.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 308px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SttKmSle94I/AAAAAAAAAfQ/z3T458gTCBg/s400/Frog+side+angle+cleaned.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393987000390842242" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDani%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ranas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Cuando tenía catorce años cuidaba a los hijos de mi vecino. Normalmente había tres: una chica de cinco años y dos chicos, de seis y siete, y a veces otro de once. Empezaba a las 6 de la mañana y terminaba a las 12 del mediodía. Seis largas horas que ocupar. Si tenía suerte se quedaban en la cama hasta las 7, el desayuno llevaba en torno a una hora y media. Después veíamos la tele un par de horas, y a veces después hacíamos un proyecto de arte o jugaban en su PlayStation. Mi trabajo consistía básicamente en proporcionarles entretenimiento y asegurarme de que no destrozaban la casa.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;Los días que más me gustaban eran en los que sólo tenía a los dos chicos pequeños, eran los más divertidos y donde menos había que trabajar. A veces íbamos a pasear a las 7.30, en mañanas heladas de verano, cuando el sol salía. Buscábamos hojas o rocas o ramillas. Cosas para las jaulas de cualquier animal que tuvieran. Los niños conocen todas las cosas importantes, como los mejores jardines para encontrar grillos, o qué árbol está infestado de arañas. Muchas mañanas yo era más una observadora que una participante activa en las cacerías.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;Dos años después, fuimos una mañana a atrapar ranas. Cogimos dos. Para entonces, mi hermana hacía de canguro y yo trabajaba en una heladería. No recuerdo por qué, pero ese día fui a cuidar a los niños como antes, a las 6 de la mañana. Estaba estudiando fotografía y tenía que entregar un trabajo. Llevé mi cámara por si acaso. Hice algunas fotos muy bonitas y contrastadas y superé la impresión que me impedía tocar a las ranas. En esa sesión fotográfica aprendí mucho sobre luz y composición. Todavía me gusta esta foto por su extrañeza y su luz cruda.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;Desgraciadamente, las ranas no sobrevivieron a la sesión. También fue una lección sobre lo que puedes exigir a tus modelos.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Frogs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;When I was 14 I used to babysit my next door neighbour’s children. There were usually three of them, a five year old girl and two boys aged six and seven and sometimes a boy of 11. I would start at 6am and finish at 12pm. Six long hours to kill. If I was lucky they would stay in bed until 7am, breakfast would take about half and hour. Then we would watch kids TV for a couple of hours, and perhaps later we would maybe do an art project, or they would play on their PlayStation. Basically my job was to provide entertainment and make sure they didn’t destroy the house.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;The days I liked the best were when I had just the two young boys, they were the most fun and least hard work. Sometimes we would go for walks at 7.30 on frosty winter mornings when the sun was coming up. We would search for leaves, or rocks or twigs. Things for the cages of whatever animal that happened to have. Kids know all the important stuff, like the best garden for finding crickets, or the tree with the spider infestation. There were many mornings where I was more of an onlooker than an active participant in the hunts.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;One morning two years later we went to catch frogs. We caught two. My sister had taken over babysitting and I now worked in an Ice cream shop. I can’t remember why but I went to babysit as before, at 6 in the morning. I was studying photography at school and had an assignment due, just in case I took my camera. I took some very nice contrasty photos and overcame my squeamishness at touching the frogs. I also learnt a lot from that photo session about composition and light. Still I like this photo for its strangeness and its stark lighting.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" &gt;Unfortunately the frogs didn’t survive the session. It was also a lesson in how far one can push one’s subjects.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-5839919449871536565?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/5839919449871536565/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=5839919449871536565' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/5839919449871536565'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/5839919449871536565'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2009/10/caza.html' title='Caza'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SttKmSle94I/AAAAAAAAAfQ/z3T458gTCBg/s72-c/Frog+side+angle+cleaned.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-6608845228875317839</id><published>2009-10-13T20:26:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-13T20:37:35.472+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Pohutakawa</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/StTG_u2MuyI/AAAAAAAAAfA/tDcPvbCwLVM/s1600-h/nz+up+till+23+aug+2009+172.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/StTG_u2MuyI/AAAAAAAAAfA/tDcPvbCwLVM/s400/nz+up+till+23+aug+2009+172.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392153452078742306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDani%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pohutakawa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face="arial" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" face="arial" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Hice esta foto en Mission Bay, Auckland. La hoja es de Pohutakawa; también se llama el árbol de Navidad de Nueva Zelanda. En verano los árboles arden con flores rojas. Las hojas son muy fuertes y van desde el verde profundo hasta el rojo, el naranja y el amarillo. También pueden tener puntos y agujeros distintivos. Imperfecciones que las hacen diferentes y más hermosas.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face="arial" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;En Nueva Zelanda el tiempo puede cambiar en un segundo. Especialmente en Auckland, que es un istmo, y por tanto tiende a repentinos cambios de tiempo. Hay días, como el que está capturado en esta imagen, en los que puede llover un poco y después hace sol el resto del día. La luz de Nueva Zelanda puede ser muy intensa y hay muchos días que tengo grabados en la memoria por su brillo brillante y su oscuridad oscura, no por el contexto o lo que sucedió, sino por sus colores, tonos y sombras.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pohutakawa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link style="font-family: arial;" rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDani%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I took this photo in Mission Bay, Auckland. The leaf is a Pohutakawa leaf, also known as the New Zealand Christmas tree. In summer time the trees are ablaze with red flowers. The leaves are very strong and they range from deep green through to red, orange and yellow. They can also get distinctive spots and holes in them. Imperfections that make them special and all the more beautiful.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;In New Zealand the weather can change in a second. Particularly in Auckland which is an Isthmus, thus prone to sudden changes of weather. There are days, like the one that is captured in this image where it can rain a little and then be bright and sunny for the rest of the day. The light in NZ can be very intense and there are many days that are echoed in my memory for the bright brights and dark darks, not for context but for colours and tones and shadows.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-6608845228875317839?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/6608845228875317839/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=6608845228875317839' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/6608845228875317839'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/6608845228875317839'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2009/10/pohutakawa.html' title='Pohutakawa'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/StTG_u2MuyI/AAAAAAAAAfA/tDcPvbCwLVM/s72-c/nz+up+till+23+aug+2009+172.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-1490976259657339945</id><published>2009-08-20T02:18:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T03:48:13.238+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Maleducado</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SoyW2naL3TI/AAAAAAAAAaA/8aZC9W-J84k/s1600-h/LOndon,+airoplane,+NZ+until+14th+of+August+2009+103.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371834320582073650" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SoyW2naL3TI/AAAAAAAAAaA/8aZC9W-J84k/s400/LOndon,+airoplane,+NZ+until+14th+of+August+2009+103.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pies&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La semana pasada Daniel y yo cruzamos el mundo. Los tres tramos que hicimos (Londres-Dubai; Dubai-Brunei; Brunei-Auckland) nos llevaron 36,5 horas. Ahora he hecho ese vuelo unas cuantas veces. Es largo, tiene momentos muy aburridos pero cuando lo haces el viaje es soportable. Pero en este viaje me di cuenta de una cosa. En cada tramo, la persona que estaba en el asiento de detrás de mí se quitó los zapatos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quitarse los zapatos es normal y se recomienda en los viajes largos, los pies se hinchan, y a veces doblan su tamaño normal. En pocas palabras, llevar zapatos puede ser muy incómodo. Lo que no es normal, y es de hecho extremadamente maleducado, es no usar los calcetines que aporta la línea aérea y poner tus pies olorosos en el lugar donde la persona que va delante de ti tiene derecho a apoyar el brazo. Soy perfectamente consciente de que mis zapatos favoritos son viejos y uno no querría tener la nariz demasiado cerca de ellos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Antes de que el avión hubiera iniciado el despegue, en cada tramo, olisqueaba el aire preguntándome de dónde llegaba la peste. Afortunadamente nos dieron montones de mantas y tapaba el hueco con ellas y esperaba hasta acostumbrarme al olor. En el último tramo el tipo que había detrás de mí poseía los pies con peor olor que he tenido el disgusto de encontrar jamás. Afortunadamente el avión estaba medio vacío así que pudimos trasladarnos a un área donde la gente llevaba zapatos o tenía puestos los calcetines de la compañía aérea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Una nota: si por casualidad estás en un viaje largo, por favor no olvides que otra gente está atrapada en el aire, durante muchas horas y sin escapatoria. Sé educado, coge un par de calcetines limpios y si te quitas los zapatos, mételos junto a los calcetines que has llevado durante horas en una bolsa de plástico y enfunda tus pies en los calcetines limpios que has llevado contigo cuidadosamente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Feet&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last week Daniel and I crossed the world. The three legs we did (London – Dubai; Dubai – Brunei; Brunei – Auckland) took us 36.5 hours. I have done that flight a few times now. It is long, it has its very boring moments but when you are doing it the traveling is bearable.&lt;br /&gt;But on this trip I found one thing. On every leg of this journey the person in the seat behind me would take off their shoes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Removal of shoes is normal and recommended on long haul flights, your feet swell up, and sometimes double their normal size, in short wearing shoes can get very uncomfortable. What is not normal, and indeed is extremely impolite is not using the airline socks provided and propping your smelly foot up on the armrest of the person in front of you. I am perfectly aware that my favourite shoes are old and one would probably not want to have ones nose too close to them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before the plane had even begun its taxi down the runway, on each leg, I was sniffing the air wondering where the stench was coming from. Luckily we were given lots of blankets so I would stuff the gap with those and wait to become accustomed to the smell. On the last leg the guy behind me had the worst smelling feet I think I have had the displeasure to encounter. Luckily the plane was half empty so we could move to an area where people were either shod or wearing the airline socks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;A note, if you happen to go on a long haul flight, please don’t forget that other people are trapped in mid air with you for hours on end with no escape. Be polite, take a pair of clean socks and if you remove your shoes, put them and the socks you will have been wearing for hours in a plastic bag and enclose your feet in the clean socks you have thoughtfully bought along.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-1490976259657339945?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/1490976259657339945/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=1490976259657339945' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/1490976259657339945'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/1490976259657339945'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2009/08/maleducado.html' title='Maleducado'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SoyW2naL3TI/AAAAAAAAAaA/8aZC9W-J84k/s72-c/LOndon,+airoplane,+NZ+until+14th+of+August+2009+103.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-7182736953763673808</id><published>2009-08-06T15:32:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-27T12:01:18.367+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Not so hot</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SnrbkmJgrxI/AAAAAAAAAYc/NtcKLHl-ZtY/s1600-h/Dans+hairy+leg+and+egg+on+the+road+006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366843327727578898" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SnrbkmJgrxI/AAAAAAAAAYc/NtcKLHl-ZtY/s400/Dans+hairy+leg+and+egg+on+the+road+006.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" equiv="Content-Type"&gt;&lt;meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"&gt;&lt;meta content="Microsoft Word 10" name="Generator"&gt;&lt;meta content="Microsoft Word 10" name="Originator"&gt;&lt;link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDani%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} p 	{mso-margin-top-alt:auto; 	margin-right:0cm; 	mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; 	margin-left:0cm; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:595.3pt 841.9pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Huevos Fritos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="FONT-FAMILY: arial"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="FONT-FAMILY: arial"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;“Hace tanto calor que podrías freír un huevo en la calle”. Todos hemos oído eso. El otro día, al volver a casa después de comer con Dan, decidí probarlo. El calor era intenso había una brisa ardiente. El termómetro del lado soleado de la carretera marcaba 39 ºC, y el del lado de sombra 36 ºC. Pensé que la calzada estaría un poco más caliente, después absorber el sol durante todo el día. Eran las 16:45. Fui a la carretera y rompí un huevo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Admito que estaba bastante ilusionada, me pregunté por qué había esperado tantos años para probarlo, mientras miraba mi huevo expectante. No pasó nada. Bueno, la yema se rompió sobre la superficie de la calzada y el huevo empezó a moverse lentamente hacia la alcantarilla. &lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Decepción. Fui a Google y busqué “freír un huevo en la calzada”. &lt;/span&gt;No es posible. Un huevo necesita una temperatura constante de 70 ºC para experimentar el proceso celular que lo transforma de crudo a cocinado.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Tras pasar un par de horas buscando en Google la temperatura más alta a la que que puede sobrevivir un ser humano descubrí que un adulto puede soportar 150 ºC durante diez minutos, y que una temperatura de 38 º se considera el límite máximo para el cuerpo humano funcione correctamente (&lt;em&gt;The Biology of Human Survival&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Life and Death in Extreme Environments&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: normal"&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Claude A. Piantadosi). Por tanto, los humanos no podrían sobrevivir por periodos de tiempo lo suficientemente largos como para salir y freír un huevo en la calzada si eso supone vivir en temperaturas de 70 ºC, lo que significa que es completamente erróneo decir “hace tanto calor que podrías freír un huevo en la calle”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Fried Eggs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;“It is so hot you could fry an egg on the footpath.” We have all heard that. The other day coming home from lunch with Dan I decided to try it out. The heat was intense and there was a hot breeze. The thermometer on the sunny side of the road said 39ºC on the shady side 36ºC. I figured the road would be a little hotter having absorbed the sun all day. The time was 16:45. I went out to the road and cracked my egg.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: arial"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;I admit I was pretty excited, why had I waited so many years to try this out I wondered as I stood expectantly over my egg. Nothing happened. Well the yoke broke from the surface of the road and the whole egg started oozing slowly towards the gutter. Disappointment. I got on Google and looked up frying an egg on the road. It is not possible. An egg needs a steady temperature of 70ºC to undergo the cellular process that turns it from raw to cooked. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;After spending a couple of hours searching on Google for the highest temperatures in which humans can survive, I found that an adult can survive in an enclosed space at 150ºC for ten minutes and that a temperature of 38ºC is widely considered to be the safe upper limit for the human body to function correctly (&lt;em&gt;The Biology of Human Survival&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Life and Death in Extreme Environments&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: normal"&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Claude A. Piantadosi). Humans could not survive for long enough periods of time to go outside an fry an egg on the road if doing so entails living in ambient temperatures of 70ºC, which means it is completely erroneous to say “it is so hot you could fry an egg on the footpath.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-7182736953763673808?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/7182736953763673808/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=7182736953763673808' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/7182736953763673808'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/7182736953763673808'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2009/08/no-so-hot.html' title='Not so hot'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SnrbkmJgrxI/AAAAAAAAAYc/NtcKLHl-ZtY/s72-c/Dans+hairy+leg+and+egg+on+the+road+006.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-8598997926608725218</id><published>2009-07-25T15:49:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2009-07-25T16:17:56.766+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Slice of Heaven</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SmsNnDa1B6I/AAAAAAAAAYU/Ik9hTGqQUC0/s1600-h/slice+of+orange+on+window+pane+003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SmsNnDa1B6I/AAAAAAAAAYU/Ik9hTGqQUC0/s400/slice+of+orange+on+window+pane+003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362394745898600354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDani%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;Naranja&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;Durante las últimas cuatro semanas he estado trabajando en un campamento de verano. Ayer fue el último día. Ha sido muy divertido, si exceptuamos las horas de las comidas. La cafetería era grande y tenía eco y los cincuenta niños que había eran muy ruidosos. Mis compañeros de trabajo españoles decían que era como la comida del comedor escolar.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;En la escuela siempre llevábamos nuestra comida. Normalmente un sándwich y algo de fruta y algún tipo de zumo de frutas. Podíamos sentarnos donde queríamos fuera, bajo los árboles, en mesas, en verano era estupendo en invierno no tanto, si hacía mucho frío o llovía podíamos comer en el aula. Una experiencia auditiva muy diferente a la de los españoles. En el campamento, la mayoría de los días teníamos de postre de alguna empalagosa que de color amarillo brillante, rosa o marrón. Yo pasé en todas las ocasiones excepto el día en que nos dieron una naranja.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;Recuerdo que la pelé y levanté un gajo a la luz y me maravilló la intricada belleza de la estructura de la naranja y cómo la luz se filtraba a través de ella. Pedí otra naranja para comerla después, con la idea de hacerle una foto. Para capturar su belleza pero también para recordar que, en momentos de caos, podemos encontrar la paz en las cosas más sencilla.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;Orange&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"&gt;For the past four weeks I have been working in a summer camp. Yesterday was the last day. It was lots of fun, apart from meal times. The cafeteria room was big and echoey and the 50 children in our care were very loud. Few had decent table manners and the food was atrocious. My Spanish co workers said it was like school cafeteria food.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"&gt;We’d always take our own lunch to school. Usually a sandwich and some fruit and some type of fruit juice. We could sit where ever we liked outside, under the trees, at tables, in summer it was great in winter not so great, if it was very cold or rainy we could eat in our classroom. A very different auditory experience to the Spanish. At the camp, most days for dessert we were given a cup of some gooey substance that was either bright yellow, pink or brown. I passed on desert every day except the one day we were given an orange.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I remember pealing it and holding a segment up to the light and marveling at the intricate beauty of the structure of the orange and the way the light filtered through it. I asked for another orange to eat later, with the idea of photographing it in mind. To capture the beauty of it but also to remind myself that in moments of chaos, peace can be found in the simplest of things.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-8598997926608725218?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/8598997926608725218/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=8598997926608725218' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/8598997926608725218'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/8598997926608725218'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2009/07/slice-of-heaven.html' title='Slice of Heaven'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SmsNnDa1B6I/AAAAAAAAAYU/Ik9hTGqQUC0/s72-c/slice+of+orange+on+window+pane+003.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-6533537621016759653</id><published>2009-06-26T20:56:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2009-06-26T21:00:28.113+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Icon</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SkUaEmp8YkI/AAAAAAAAAYM/vPT3HuBLiqU/s1600-h/Micheal+jackson+ipod+001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SkUaEmp8YkI/AAAAAAAAAYM/vPT3HuBLiqU/s400/Micheal+jackson+ipod+001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351712398597972546" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" &gt;Blame it on the boogie...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link style="font-family: arial;" rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDani%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" face="arial" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Dan me ha informado a las 6.20 de la mañana de que Michael Jackson había muerto. Como parte de su eficiente rutina matinal mira los titulares en Internet. Creo que he gruñido algo como respuesta o quizás incluso un articulado “¿Ah?” (no soy una persona de mañanas). Cuando he comprado los periódicos unas horas después he recordado la noticia porque &lt;i style=""&gt;Thriller&lt;/i&gt; estaba sonando en la radio. Tiendo a no mirar la portada del periódico hasta que no he llegado a casa, para evitar hacer algún comentario inoportuno (otro rasgo de mi personalidad).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" face="arial" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Más tarde, en el taller de joyería hemos escuchado que la radio habla de las reacciones de la gente a su muerte, era la hora del café y creo que estábamos más concentrados en la tarea de comer que en emocionarnos. Más tarde en el trabajo mi jefe ha hecho un comentario y he sentido algo. No creo que haya mucha gente de mi generación o la anterior en el mundo que no pueda nombrar o tararear una tonada de Michael Jackson. Recuerdo estar ante una pantalla de televisión con un montón de gente el sábado que el videoclip de Black and White se estrenó en Nueva Zelanda.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Recuerdo que obligué a mi hermana a comprar el disco Bad cuando cumplió 9 años. Recuerdo ir al cine con mis padres para ver Moonwalker. Recuerdo la entrevista de Oprah, los escándalos, el bebé en el balcón, la nariz destrozada. Y hoy, ante la inundación de los medios, de las revelaciones, de los tributos, siento pena por un hombre cuya vida fue vivida de manera tan pública, crítica y confusa.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Blame it on the boogie...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Dan informed me a 6.20 am this morning that Michael Jackson had died. As part of his very efficient morning routine he scans the headlines On-Line. I think I grunted something in reply or perhaps even an articulate ‘ah’? (I am not a morning person) When I bought the papers a few hours later I remembered the news because they were playing &lt;i&gt;Thriller&lt;/i&gt; on the radio. I tend not to look at the front page of the newspapers until I get home, least I make an inopportune comment (another personality trait)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;Later at the Jewellery workshop we listened to a radio report about people’s reactions to his death, this was at morning tea time and I think we were more concentrated on the eating at hand than emoting. Then later at work when my boss commented on it and I did kind of feel something. I don’t think many people in the world my generation and above have could not name or hum along to a Micheal Jackson tune. I remember standing around a T.V. screen with a bunch of people the Saturday that &lt;i&gt;the Black and White&lt;/i&gt; video clip first aired in New Zealand.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I remember I made my sister buy the &lt;i&gt;BAD&lt;/i&gt; record for her 9&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; birthday. I remember going to see &lt;i&gt;Moonwalker&lt;/i&gt; at the movies with my parents. I remember the Oprah interview, the scandals, the baby out the window, the nose collapsing. And today, right now before the media onslaught, before the exposés, before the tributes I feel sorry for a man whose life was lived so publicly and critically and confusedly.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-6533537621016759653?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/6533537621016759653/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=6533537621016759653' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/6533537621016759653'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/6533537621016759653'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2009/06/icon.html' title='Icon'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SkUaEmp8YkI/AAAAAAAAAYM/vPT3HuBLiqU/s72-c/Micheal+jackson+ipod+001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-2986806030187613811</id><published>2009-05-12T22:31:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2009-05-12T23:47:47.179+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Menú</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/Sgnc3vGYy2I/AAAAAAAAAX8/jFYttcdxSmA/s1600-h/pigs+ears+020.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/Sgnc3vGYy2I/AAAAAAAAAX8/jFYttcdxSmA/s400/pigs+ears+020.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335038083691236194" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDani%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:595.3pt 841.9pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Trozos asquerosos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;El sábado no teníamos prácticamente nada comestible en la casa. Normalmente compro yo pero la semana pasada lo había hecho Dan. Me gusta que vaya a comprar, no sólo porque así no voy yo, sino también porque siempre compra cosas raras e interesantes. Una de ellas era una bolsa de orejas de cerdo en salsa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Sugerí que las tomáramos a la hora de comer. Dan pensó que yo sería demasiado anglosajona para disfrutarlas, o para que quisiera comerlas. Así que estaba en la cocina haciéndolas, intentando apartarme cuando explotaban, y pensaba que tenían buena pinta.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Primero tomamos gazpacho y luego llegaron las orejas de cerdo. Dos bocados fueron suficiente. No era lo bastante española como para comer un plato de oreja de cerdo al mediodía. Dan dijo que no me preocupara, que muchos españoles tienen inclinaciones anglosajonas a la hora de comer orejas de cerdo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Gross bits&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;On Saturday we had practically nothing edible in the house. I usually do the shopping but the week before Dan had done it. I like it when he goes shopping, not just because it means I don’t have to but also because he always buys strange and interesting things. One of these things was a bag of pigs ears in sauce.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;I suggested that we have those for lunch. Dan thought I would be too anglo saxon to really enjoy them, or want to eat them. So there I was in the kitchen cooking them, dodging out of the way when they exploded up at me and I was thinking that they looked all right.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;We had gazpacho first and then came the pigs ears. Two mouthfuls were enough. I was not Spanish enough to eat a plate of pigs ears for lunch. Dan said not to worry about it, a lot of Spanish people have anglo saxon leanings when it comes to eating pigs ears.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-2986806030187613811?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/2986806030187613811/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=2986806030187613811' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/2986806030187613811'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/2986806030187613811'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2009/05/menu.html' title='Menú'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/Sgnc3vGYy2I/AAAAAAAAAX8/jFYttcdxSmA/s72-c/pigs+ears+020.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-4878668492897283540</id><published>2009-05-06T21:39:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2009-05-07T11:16:52.871+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Resurrección</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SgHoWbV9QAI/AAAAAAAAAX0/hzPxiNTYb4A/s1600-h/shoes+revival+014.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SgHoWbV9QAI/AAAAAAAAAX0/hzPxiNTYb4A/s400/shoes+revival+014.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332798905777995778" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDani%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;"&gt;Último vals&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;Esta última semana santa experimenté una resurrección. Mi par de zapatillas favorito recibió una nueva vida. La parte interior de los talones se había roto a finales de otoño pasado, y sólo podía llevarlos con dos pares de calcetines muy gordos, si no quería que los trozos de plástico me hicieran heridas en los talones. Era muy incómodo, así que unas botas se convirtieron en mi calzado para el invierno.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;En mi cumpleaños me regalaron otro par de botas pero de vez en cuando me acordaba de mis Vans de color burdeos y suspiraba con tristeza y frustración, todavía incapaz de tirarlas a la basura. La mini ola de calor que llegó justo antes de semana santa me hizo pensar en un par de sandalias de verano que había comprado y había que ensanchar. Fui a una tienda de reparación de zapatos que hay en mi calle para ver si podían hacer algo.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;Las sandalias son de tela, no de cuero, así que los zapateros remendones –un matrimonio- dudaban a la hora de ensancharlas. Les dije que podía intentar lo que quisieran, porque en el estado en el que se encontraban no me servían de nada. Las calentaron. Creo que tuvieron que hacer cuatro intentos hasta que se volvieron cómodas. La última vez que las devolví reuní el coraje necesario para llevar mis Vans a la tienda.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;Coraje porque tuve que prepararme mentalmente para lo peor. Pero afortunadamente no hacía falta. Me dijeron que podían arreglarlas: y lo hicieron, hermosamente, y con cuero de colores a juego. No sé cuántos meses o años nos quedan de pasear juntos por el mundo pero disfrutaré de cada vez que pueda meter mis pies en ellas. He decidido que cuando nuestro último vals termine haré que las cubran de bronce.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Last Waltz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;This Easter I experienced a resurrection. My favourite pair of shoes were given a new life. The inside heels broke at the end of last autumn and I could only wear them with two pairs of very thick socks if I didn’t want my heels to be lacerated by the shreds of  plastic that were exposed. This was very uncomfortable, so I took to wearing a pair of boots as my typical winter footwear.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;I was given another pair of boots for my birthday but every now and then my burgundy Vans would catch my eye and I would sigh in sadness and frustration, not yet ready to throw them away. The mini heat wave that hit just before Easter made me think of a pair of summer espadrille's I had bought that needed stretching. I went to the shoe repair shop just down the road to see if they could do anything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;The espadrille's are fabric not leather so they were hesitant about stretching them, I said they could try anything as they were useless to me in their too small state. They heat treated them. I think it took about three of four attempts until they were comfortable to wear. The last time I took them back I plucked up the courage to take in my vans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Courage because I had to mentally prepare myself for the worst. But fortunately that was unnecessary. They told me they could be fixed and they were, beautifully, with matching coloured leather! I don’t know how many months or years we have left passing through the world together but I will enjoy every single time I can slip my feet into them. I have decided when our last waltz is over I will get them bronzed.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-4878668492897283540?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/4878668492897283540/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=4878668492897283540' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/4878668492897283540'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/4878668492897283540'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2009/05/resurreccion.html' title='Resurrección'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SgHoWbV9QAI/AAAAAAAAAX0/hzPxiNTYb4A/s72-c/shoes+revival+014.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-8740194686336385771</id><published>2009-03-03T11:43:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2009-03-03T11:53:35.817+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Wagging their tails behind them</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/Sa0Kn5vpH5I/AAAAAAAAAXs/IGgHOhrtmkY/s1600-h/pippi+%2830%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 225px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/Sa0Kn5vpH5I/AAAAAAAAAXs/IGgHOhrtmkY/s400/pippi+%2830%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308911216371507090" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pastor&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Antes de llegar a España nunca había visto a un pastor. En Nueva Zelanda tenemos prados vallados para las ovejas que cuidan los granjeros. Hace unos fines de semana vi a dos pastores cuidando un gran rebaño de ovejas y unas cuantas cabras, una de las cuales estaba de pie sobre dos patas comiendo las hojas de un árbol joven.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;" lang="EN-GB"&gt;El fin de semana vi a un pastor muy cerca de la casa de los padres de Daniel. No llevaba la cámara de fotos. Le pregunté a mi amigo gallego, que casualmente estaba allí, si podía dejarme la cámara y le expliqué para qué. Ofreció venir conmigo para hablar con el pastor, para presentarme.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Acabamos pasando casi una hora con el pastor, que se presentó como Orlando pero de quien nos despedimos como Eduardo. Con las palabras y la investigación experimentada de mi amigo Eduardo se abrió como una flor y nos habló de su familia, de cómo pasa los días, de lo que hacen sus hijos. Mencioné que había visto a otros pastores con cabras y pregunté por qué Eduardo no tenían ninguna. Dijo que las cabras se lo comen todo y quitan la corteza de los árboles jóvenes. Tener cabras es un impedimento para acceder a las tierras porque los dueños no quieren que se coman sus árboles. Su manejo de sus ovejas y sus perros pastores era digno de verse.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Me encanta observar a cualquier persona que tenga maestría, y este caso no fue una excepción: su rebaño le seguía y sus perros obedecían sus órdenes. Y como todo maestro parecía que lo que hacía fuera la cosa más fácil del mundo. Entre mi amigo y yo hicimos más de 300 fotos. Tengo la dirección de Eduardo, esta semana elegiré las mejores fotos y se las mandaré.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shepherd&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Before arriving in Spain I had never seen a Shepherd. In New Zealand we have fenced off sheep paddocks that are looked after by farmers. A few weekends ago I saw two shepherds together minding a large flock of sheep and a few goats, one of which was standing on two legs eating the leaves of a young tree.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;" lang="EN-GB"&gt;The other weekend I saw a shepherd very close to Dans’ parents house. I didn’t have my camera with me. I asked my Galician friend, who happened to be there, if I could borrow his camera and explained what for. He offered to come with me to talk to the shepherd, to introduce me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;" lang="EN-GB"&gt;We ended up spending nearly an hour with the Shepherd who introduced himself as Orlando but whom we bid farewell to as Eduardo. Under the experienced chatter and probing of my friend Eduardo opened up like a flower and told us about his family, how he passes his days, what his children do. I mentioned I had seen other Shepherds with goats and why Eduardo didn’t have any. He explained that goats eat everything and strip young trees. Having goats was an impediment in accessing land as landowners don’t want their trees stripped. His handling of his sheep and sheep dogs was a sight to behold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love watching anyone with mastery, and this was no exception, his flock followed him and his dogs did his bidding. And like every master it seemed that his was the easiest thing in the world to do. Between us my friend and I took over 300 photos. I have Eduardo’s address, this week I will choose the best photos and send them to him.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-8740194686336385771?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/8740194686336385771/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=8740194686336385771' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/8740194686336385771'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/8740194686336385771'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2009/03/wagging-their-tails-behind-them.html' title='Wagging their tails behind them'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/Sa0Kn5vpH5I/AAAAAAAAAXs/IGgHOhrtmkY/s72-c/pippi+%2830%29.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-8513992120841711154</id><published>2009-01-25T16:52:00.010+01:00</published><updated>2009-01-25T17:13:39.251+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Premio</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SXyOU_S9xII/AAAAAAAAAXU/U5xCbevBZN0/s1600-h/fur+photoshop.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SXyOU_S9xII/AAAAAAAAAXU/U5xCbevBZN0/s400/fur+photoshop.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295263753120367746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;Piel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" face="arial" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Tengo la teoría de que, cuando una mujer española alcanza cierta edad, el gobierno español le entrega un abrigo de piel. Esos abrigos varían en color, tipo de piel y longitud. Dichas variaciones dependen de ciertos detalles que aportan las mujeres. Creo que hay una hoja de información que cada mujer rellena: los resultados se procesan y se entrega el abrigo correspondiente.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face="arial" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Hay un tono específico de abrigo de piel marrón, que debe venir con un pase que permite a quien lo lleva despreocuparse por completo de los que están a su alrededor, y obviar cualquier cortesía social a la hora de esperar en fila o echarse a un lado. Básicamente, se trata de un pase gratis que permite a la portadora seguir una trayectoria recta.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Fur&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDani%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I have a theory that once a Spanish woman reaches an age, the Spanish government awards her with a fur coat. These coats vary in colour, fur type and length. Said variations are dependant on certain details the women provide. I think there is an information sheet that is filled in by each woman, the results are processed and the respondent coat awarded.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;There is a specific shade of brown fur coat that must come with a pass that allows the wearer complete obliviousness to those around her and to disregard any social politeness of waiting in line or moving aside. Basically a free pass that allows the wearer to pursue a straight trajectory.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-8513992120841711154?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/8513992120841711154/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=8513992120841711154' title='15 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/8513992120841711154'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/8513992120841711154'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2009/01/premio.html' title='Premio'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SXyOU_S9xII/AAAAAAAAAXU/U5xCbevBZN0/s72-c/fur+photoshop.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>15</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-1044153942751363436</id><published>2009-01-08T12:09:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-01-08T12:13:43.363+01:00</updated><title type='text'>There's something rotting in the state of Aragon</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SWXfeWE3TDI/AAAAAAAAAWA/Pn7XeerNReo/s1600-h/undies+042+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SWXfeWE3TDI/AAAAAAAAAWA/Pn7XeerNReo/s400/undies+042+copy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288879049831566386" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;"&gt;Fruta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;Me gusta la fruta que se pudre, a los 15 años tenía tres manzanas pudriéndose en mi mesa. Me preguntaba cómo sabían entrar los pequeños insectos que invadían mi habitación. Incluso me gustaba el olor extraño y pesado. En mitad del proceso de inmortalizar esas manzanas mi madre me mandó que las tirase a la basura. &lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Me negué. &lt;/span&gt;No recuerdo el castigo que habría recibido, pero fue lo bastante fuerte como para que obedeciera, a regañadientes. Me entristeció la marcha de mis frutas, sabía que perdía la oportunidad de ser una testigo privilegiada de su agonía.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;Nunca he sido una gran fan de los kiwis (me parece que deja un sabor demasiado amargo), es decir, hasta que la fruta kiwi normal fue genéticamente modificada para hacer el kiwi amarillo. No tengo problemas con el sabor que deja el kiwi amarillo. También me hace gracia, porque cuando tenía diez años el ‘kiwi amarillo’ era una lotería semanal en Nueva Zelanda.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;Nueva Zelanda es famosa por sus kiwis, pero mucha gente no sabe que son originarios de China. Mi abuela siempre ha llamado a los kiwis ‘grosellas chinas’. Los kiwis fueron introducidos en el extremo norte (donde nacimos mi abuela, mi madre, mi hermana, mi cuñada y yo) por Mary Isabel Fraser.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;El nombre viene de uno de los símbolos nacionales de Nueva Zelanda, el ‘kiwi’, un pájaro autóctono que no vuela. Kiwi también es una palabra que los neozelandeses emplean para identificarse como grupo. En Nueva Zelanda y en Australia llamamos a la fruta ‘fruta kiwi’; en el resto del mundo, ‘kiwi’.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;Fruit&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I like rotting fruit, when I was 15 I had three apples rotting on my desk. I liked the colours they turned, I wondered how the little insects that invaded my room knew how to come in. I even liked the strange heady smell. I was in the process of immortalising these apples in carbon when my mother gave me the order to throw them away. I refused. I can’t remember what the punishment would have been, but it was strong enough for me to obey, grudgingly. I was sad to see my fruit go, I knew I was missing out on being a privileged witness to their death throes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I have never been a huge Kiwi fruit fan (I find the aftertaste too astringent) that is until the normal Kiwi fruit was genetically modified into the golden kiwi. With the golden Kiwi I have no aftertaste problems. I also find it funny because until I was about ten years old ‘golden kiwi’ in New Zealand was a weekly lottery.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;New Zealand is famous for its Kiwi fruit but many people don’t know that it originates from China. My grandmother has always called Kiwi fruit ‘Chinese goosberries’. It was introduced to the far north (where my grandmother, my mother, my sister, my sister in law and I were born) by Mary Isabel Fraser.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" &gt;The name Kiwi Fruit comes from one of New Zealand’s national symbols, ‘the kiwi’, a native flightless bird. Kiwi is also one of the words that New Zealanders use to identify themselves as a group. In New Zealand and Australia we refer to the fruit as ‘Kiwi fruit’ in the rest of the world ‘kiwi’.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-1044153942751363436?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/1044153942751363436/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=1044153942751363436' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/1044153942751363436'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/1044153942751363436'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2009/01/theres-something-rotting-in-state-of_1355.html' title='There&apos;s something rotting in the state of Aragon'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SWXfeWE3TDI/AAAAAAAAAWA/Pn7XeerNReo/s72-c/undies+042+copy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-8894326913142408082</id><published>2009-01-04T20:12:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-01-04T20:16:40.165+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Sundays</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SWEKWFJcWqI/AAAAAAAAAVo/e2n9EQ8tzOU/s1600-h/u+012.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SWEKWFJcWqI/AAAAAAAAAVo/e2n9EQ8tzOU/s400/u+012.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287518811964856994" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDani%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:595.3pt 841.9pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pánico&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;No me gustan los domingos, nunca me han gustado. Sin embargo me gusta reciclar y en Zaragoza es muy fácil. Me encanta poder poner el papel en el contenedor de papel, el plástico en el contenedor de plástico, etc. No me gusta el domingo porque es el peor día en este sentido. Compramos cuatro o cinco periódicos cada domingo y en casi todos hay revistas o anuncios envueltos en plástico.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Tengo que abrir cada uno de estos envoltorios de plástico, lo que no siempre es fácil, y separar una montaña de una montaña de papel que no necesitaba quedar envuelta o protegida en primer lugar. También creo que otra razón por la que me gusta el domingo es porque el fin de semana contiene una gran promesa. Decides hacer todas las cosas que no puedes hacer durante la semana y esperas que el fin de semana sea largo y divertido y lleno de productividad.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Generalmente siempre me han gustado la escuela y la mayoría de mis trabajos, así que no puedo entender por qué, desde que tengo memoria me he sentido desilusionada y algo decepcionada la mayoría de los domingos por la tarde. &lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Quizás por una promesa perdida.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;Panic&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I don’t like Sundays, I never have. I do however like recyling and in Saragossa it is very easy to recylce. I love the fact I can put the paper in the paper bin, the plastic in the plastic bin etc... I don’t like Sunday as it is the worst day for me in this respect. We buy four or five newspapers every Sunday and in almost all there are magazines or advertising sealed in plastic.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I have to rip open each of these plastic seals, not always easy, and separate a mountain of plastic from a mountain of paper that didn’t really need to be wrapped or protected in the first place. Also I think another reason I don’t like Sunday is because the weekend holds so much promise. You mentally decided to do all the things you can’t fit in during the week and that the weekend will be long and fun and full of productivity and fun.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Generally I have always liked school and most of my jobs, so I can’t really understand why, since I can remember I have felt disallusioned and midly dissapoined most Sunday afternoons. Perhaps because of a promise gone.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-8894326913142408082?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/8894326913142408082/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=8894326913142408082' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/8894326913142408082'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/8894326913142408082'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2009/01/sundays.html' title='Sundays'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SWEKWFJcWqI/AAAAAAAAAVo/e2n9EQ8tzOU/s72-c/u+012.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-3646204487639655595</id><published>2008-12-27T16:17:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-27T17:55:46.784+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Changing rooms</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SVZHXloKEpI/AAAAAAAAAVY/RzQLDkB8i-w/s1600-h/undies+004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SVZHXloKEpI/AAAAAAAAAVY/RzQLDkB8i-w/s400/undies+004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5284489683328963218" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDani%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C02%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} p 	{mso-margin-top-alt:auto; 	margin-right:0cm; 	mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; 	margin-left:0cm; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:595.3pt 841.9pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" face="arial"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Seda y lazos &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aquí en España me siento una amazona, las mujeres españolas son muy pequeñas. A menudo cuando voy por la calle me siento una giganta. Creo que los neozelandeses y los australianos están hechos en una escala más grande que la mayoría de los europeos. A veces es deprimente cuando voy a comprar ropa y una camiseta de manga larga sólo me llega a la mitad del brazo. Comprar lencería es lo peor, la ropa interior europea me parece muy incómoda. Era imposible encontrar sujetadores cómodos en Francia y he tenido el mismo problema en España. Hace algo más de dos años, cuando estuve por última vez en Nueva Zelanda, compré un montón de lencería en Bendon, para almacenar ropa interior cómoda. Bendon es una compañía australasiana y hace hermosos sujetadores y bragas que les valen a las mujeres australasianas (de Australia y Nueva Zelanda).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aparte de ser una necesidad, me encanta la ropa interior. Si ganase la lotería alguna vez, una de las primeras cosas que haría sería ir a comprar lencería con mi hermana, Wendy, que también comparte esta pasión y un gusto similar. Wendy estuvo en Nueva Zelanda hace poco para renovar su permiso de trabajo en Inglaterra. Puse 200 euros en su cuenta. Al cambio, eran 420 dólares neozelandeses. Un montón de dinero para comprar ropa interior. La caja llegó hace un tiempo, llena de ropa interior nueva y hermosa, hecha para alguien de mi lado del mundo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" face="arial"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Silk and lace&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here in Spain I feel amazonian, Spanish women are very petite. Often when I am out and about walking in the street I feel like a giant. I think New Zealanders and Australians are built at a larger scale than most Europeans. Sometimes it is depressing when I go clothes shopping and a long sleeved T-shirt only reaches my mid-wrist. Lingerie shopping is the worst, I find European underwear very uncomfortable. It was impossible to find comfortable bras in France and I have encountered the same problem in Spain. Two and a bit years ago when I was last in New Zealand I bought a whole bunch of lingerie from the Bendon, to stockpile comfortable underwear. Bendon is an Australasian company that makes beautiful bras and underwear that fit Australasian woman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aside from being a necessity, I love underwear. If I ever won the lottery one of the first things I would do would be to go lingerie shopping with my sister, Wendy, who shares with me this passion and a similar taste. Wendy was in New Zealand a short time ago to renew her English Working Visa. I put 200€ in her account. This turned into 420 NZ dollars. Lots of money to go underwear shopping with. The box arrived awhile ago, full of beautiful new, underwear, made for someone from my side of the world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-3646204487639655595?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/3646204487639655595/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=3646204487639655595' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/3646204487639655595'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/3646204487639655595'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/12/changing-rooms.html' title='Changing rooms'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SVZHXloKEpI/AAAAAAAAAVY/RzQLDkB8i-w/s72-c/undies+004.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-3428715255567609292</id><published>2008-12-10T22:10:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-11T00:02:08.520+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Fechas importantes</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SUAwfko27iI/AAAAAAAAAVQ/hV8WK5qwhzw/s1600-h/egg,+morcia,+anto+article+003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SUAwfko27iI/AAAAAAAAAVQ/hV8WK5qwhzw/s400/egg,+morcia,+anto+article+003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278272082247347746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDani%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:595.3pt 841.9pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;Cumpleaños&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Recuerdo cuando era un óvulo y pasaba el tiempo con mis otros óvulos amigos. No había mucho que hacer y hablábamos de cosas. Política, quién creíamos que había matado a Kennedy, el tiempo, empezaba a hacer frío.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;En realidad no recuerdo eso, aún no tenía memoria. No tengo buena memoria. Especialmente para fechas y cumpleaños, aunque recuerdo algunos cumpleaños. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Por ejemplo el mío, que es el 30 de diciembre.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Cuando voy de compras siempre compruebo la fecha de caducidad. Si esa fecha coincide con el cumpleaños de alguien me aseguro de enseñarle el producto y darle el objeto sellado, normalmente la tapa de un yogur o de un cartón de leche, a veces una pizza congelada, etc…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;La reacción habitual a mi extremada excitación por parte del que recibe esas cosas es sonreír educadamente, poner el objeto en algún sitio y cambiar de tema, o llamarme freak y tirar dicho objeto. No me importa, creo que es un detalle agradable pensar en alguien especial y recordarlo junto a lo cotidiano&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;Birthdays&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;I remember being an egg, hanging out with my other egg friends. There wasn’t much to do or see so we would talk about things. Politics, who we thought had shot Kennedy, the weather, it was starting to get cold.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;I didn’t really remember that, that was before I had memory. I don’t have a good memory. Especially not for dates or birthdays, but some birthdays I do retain. Like for example my own which is on the 30&lt;/span&gt;&lt;sup style="font-family: arial;"&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; of December.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;When I go shopping I always check the expiration dates. If that date happens to be someone’s birthday I make sure I show them and give them the date stamped object, usually a yogurt lid or a milk bottle top, some times a frozen pizza, etc...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The usual reaction to my extreme excitement by the receiver is to smile politely and gently place the object somewhere and change the subject, or to call me a freak and throw said object away. I don’t mind, I think it is a nice detail to think of someone special and remember them with the everyday.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-3428715255567609292?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/3428715255567609292/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=3428715255567609292' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/3428715255567609292'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/3428715255567609292'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/12/fechas-importantes.html' title='Fechas importantes'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SUAwfko27iI/AAAAAAAAAVQ/hV8WK5qwhzw/s72-c/egg,+morcia,+anto+article+003.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-2177160205951442132</id><published>2008-12-08T17:51:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-08T18:03:35.716+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Where?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/ST1Qqi4Kv1I/AAAAAAAAAVI/T0EuNvO5B2w/s1600-h/map+fo+the+world+sans+NZ+010+photshopped.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/ST1Qqi4Kv1I/AAAAAAAAAVI/T0EuNvO5B2w/s400/map+fo+the+world+sans+NZ+010+photshopped.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277463030195208018" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDani%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} p.s, li.s, div.s 	{mso-style-name:s; 	mso-margin-top-alt:auto; 	margin-right:0cm; 	mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; 	margin-left:0cm; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:595.3pt 841.9pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Océano Pacífico&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cada pocos días o semanas sufro una forma muy sutil de racismo, o quizás, mejor dicho, eurocentrismo. Me refiero a los casos en que Nueva Zelanda no sale en el mapa. Experimenté por primera vez el shock de no exisitir en mi primera semana en Europa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estaba de pie frente a un grupo de adolescentes franceses, respondiendo sus preguntas sobre mí y sobre Nueva Zelanda. Trabajaba como lectora de inglés en un instituto francés. El profesor, que conocía a sus estudiantes, sabía que la mitad no sabría dónde estaba Nueva Zelanda. Hizo que uno de ellos me preguntara en inglés en qué lugar del mundo se encontraba mi país. Me había dado cuenta de que tenían un mapa del mundo en su libro de texto. Agarré el libro más cercano, lo abrí y me quedé boquiabierta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tuve que explicarle a ese grupo expectante que si Nueva Zelanda hubiera aparecido en el mapa habría estado a un centímetro, más menos, del punto más meridional de la costa este de Australia. Indiqué dónde, movimiento mi mano en el aire. Desde entonces he desarrollado mi habilidad para darme cuenta de si Nueva Zelanda aparece en el mapa en menos de un segundo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nueva Zelanda está formada de dos islas principales (no una, como aparece en el mapa de Televisión Española). La capital, Wellington, la capital de país situada más al sur en todo el mundo, está a 41,3 grados de latitud sur, a 174.7833 grados de longitud este, y debería aparecer en cualquier mapa decente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pacific Ocean&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every few days or weeks I suffer a very subtle form of racism or perhaps better put Euro centralism. I am referring to New Zealand being left off the map. I first experienced the shock of not existing the very first week I was ever in Europe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was standing in front of a group of French teenagers answering their questions about me and New Zealand. I was working as a English assistant in a French high school. The teacher, knowing his students, knew that half of them wouldn’t know where New Zealand was. He made one of them ask me in English where in the world my country was. I had noticed that they had world map in their textbooks. I grabbed the closest book, flipped it open and gasped.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had to explain to that expectant group that if New Zealand &lt;i&gt;had&lt;/i&gt; been on the map it would have been a centimetre or so and off to the bottom of the east coast of Australia. I indicated where, waving my hand in the air. Since that day I have developed the skill of noticing if New Zealand makes the map in under a second.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;New Zealand is made up of two main Islands (not one Island as appears on the T.V One map of the world). The capital, Wellington, the southernmost capital city in the world is located at Latitude: -41.3º Longitude: 174.7833º, and should show up on any decent map&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-2177160205951442132?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/2177160205951442132/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=2177160205951442132' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/2177160205951442132'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/2177160205951442132'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/12/where.html' title='Where?'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/ST1Qqi4Kv1I/AAAAAAAAAVI/T0EuNvO5B2w/s72-c/map+fo+the+world+sans+NZ+010+photshopped.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-2737941581813173005</id><published>2008-11-22T13:31:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2008-11-22T13:40:34.164+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Bonus feature</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SSf7_s2sPmI/AAAAAAAAAU4/av0LTP6QGIM/s1600-h/green+dress+ticket+and+leaves+009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SSf7_s2sPmI/AAAAAAAAAU4/av0LTP6QGIM/s400/green+dress+ticket+and+leaves+009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271458960651337314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;¡Tiene bolsillos!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;A veces la felicidad es una tarjeta de crédito caliente.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;It has Pockets!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes happiness is a warm credit card.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-2737941581813173005?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/2737941581813173005/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=2737941581813173005' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/2737941581813173005'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/2737941581813173005'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/11/bonus-feature.html' title='Bonus feature'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SSf7_s2sPmI/AAAAAAAAAU4/av0LTP6QGIM/s72-c/green+dress+ticket+and+leaves+009.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-7563053514600147700</id><published>2008-11-11T00:05:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-11-11T00:21:58.889+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Daydream</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SRjBwKOvkVI/AAAAAAAAAUw/QNZiKvJxuOQ/s1600-h/green+dress+005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SRjBwKOvkVI/AAAAAAAAAUw/QNZiKvJxuOQ/s400/green+dress+005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267172797333868882" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:595.3pt 841.9pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt;&lt;/style&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: arial;" face="arial"&gt;Deseo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;"  class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" face="arial" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Hoy hace una semana que me enamoré. Sucedió así: entré en el supermercado chino que hay cerca de casa para comprar sopa de miso. Con mi misión cumplida y pensando en pedir sushi y llegar a casa para estar caliente, algo me llamó la atención. &lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Me sentí enamorada. Estoy enamorada de este vestido verde. &lt;/span&gt;Está en la ventana de una tienda que parece cara. Estoy demasiado asustada para entrar y probármelo. Sólo lo amaré desde lejos.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;Desire&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" &gt;A week ago today I fell in love. It happened like this: I popped into the chinese supermarket that is near our place to buy some miso soup. Mision acomplished with my thoughts turning to ordering Sushi and getting home into the warmth, something caught my eye. I feel in love. I am in love with this green dress. It is in the window of an expensiveish shop. I am too scared to go in and try it on. I will just love it from afar.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-7563053514600147700?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/7563053514600147700/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=7563053514600147700' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/7563053514600147700'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/7563053514600147700'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/11/daydream.html' title='Daydream'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SRjBwKOvkVI/AAAAAAAAAUw/QNZiKvJxuOQ/s72-c/green+dress+005.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-7287727324648576322</id><published>2008-11-08T14:39:00.017+01:00</published><updated>2008-11-22T13:56:58.994+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Crystal</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SRXxEdv9NWI/AAAAAAAAAUY/r68zaGhFWzs/s1600-h/broken+glass+2+005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SRXxEdv9NWI/AAAAAAAAAUY/r68zaGhFWzs/s400/broken+glass+2+005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266380398287205730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Fragmentos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Esta mañana he roto una copa de vino. Estoy esperando a que desaparezcan las burbujas para recoger los cristales rotos. Compré un juego de seis copas de vino en IKEA hace un tiempo. Ahora sólo tenemos cinco. Puesto que nunca hemos tenido a un grupo de seis aquí, dudo que este cristal roto cause muchos problemas. Tenía el pie de la copa en la mano cuando se ha roto y he notado el estallido del cristal: era bastante satisfactorio. Lo que daba miedo era tener las manos en el agua sin saber lo que podía encontrarme. Ese horror me recordó una exquisita escena de &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial;"&gt;Pnin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;, de Nabokov.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Pnin recibe una hermosa ensaladera de cristal de manos del hijo de la mujer que le ha abandonado: “una gran ensaladera de cristal brillante de color aguamarina, decorado con espirales y nenúfares”. La ensaladera tiene un gran éxito en una fiesta que se celebra en la casa de Pnin. Más tarde, cuando Pnin está lavando los platos, Nabokov describe una de las escenas más estremecedoras que he leído.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;“Tanteó bajo las burbujas, alrededor de las copas, y bajo la melodiosa ensaladera, en busca de una pieza de plata olvidada –y recuperó un cascanueces. Pnin lo aclaró meticulosamente, cuando esa cosa de piernas largas se escurrió del trapo y cayó como un hombre desde un tejado. Estuvo a punto de cogerla –las yemas de sus dedos llegaron a tocarla en el aire-, pero eso sólo sirvió para lanzarla sobre la espuma que ocultaba los tesoros en el fregadero, donde un espantoso sonido de cristales rotos siguió a la zambullida.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;"Pnin echó la toalla a un lado, y apartándose, se quedó mirando un momento la negrura de la puerta de atrás abierta. Un insecto verde y silencioso, con alas en forma de lazo, volaba en círculos en el resplandor de la bombilla desnuda que había sobre la cabeza calva y brillante de Pnin. Parecía muy viejo, con su boca sin dientes entreabierta y una película de lágrimas que oscurecía sus ojos, sin emoción y sin pestañear. Después, con un gemido de anticipación angustiada, volvió al fregadero, se preparó, y metió la mano en la espuma. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Se le clavó una astilla de cristal. Apartó suavemente una copa rota. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;La hermosa ensaladera estaba intacta. Cogió un trapo limpio y siguió con las tareas del hogar.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;"&gt;Shards&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;This morning I broke a wine glass. I am waiting for the bubbles to disappear so I can pick up the broken glass. I bought a set of six wine glasses from IKEA a while ago. Now we only have five. Given that we have never had a party of six here, I doubt that this broken glass is going to cause great problems. I had the stem in my hand when it broke and I felt the glass smash, it was quite satisfying. What was scary was having my hands in the water not knowing what they would encounter. That horror reminded me of an exquisite scene in Nabokov’s book &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial;"&gt;Pnin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Pnin was given a beautiful glass bowl by the son of the woman who had left him. “...A large bowl of brilliant aquamarine glass with a decorative design of swirled ribbing and lily pads” The bowl is met with great success at a party held in Pnin’s house. Later when Pnin is doing the dishes, Nabokov paints one the most heart stopping scenes I have ever read.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;“He groped under the bubbles, around the goblets, and under the melodious bowl, for any piece of forgotten silver – and retrieved a nutcracker. Fastidiously Pnin rinsed it, and was wiping it, when the leggy thing somehow slipped out of the towel and fell like a man from a roof. He almost caught it – his fingertips actually came into contact with it in mid-air, but this only helped to propel it into the treasure-concealing foam of the sink, where an excruciating crack of broken glass followed upon the plunge.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;"Pnin hurled the towel into a corner and, turning away, stood for a moment staring at the blackness beyond the threshold of the open back door. A quiet, lacy-winged little green insect circled in the glare of a strong naked lamp above Pnin’s glossy bald head. He looked very old, with his toothless mouth half open and a film of tears dimming his blank, unblinking eyes. Then, with a moan of anguished anticipation, he went back to the sink and, bracing himself, dipped his hand deep into the foam. A jagger of glass stung him. Gently he removed a broken goblet. The beautiful bowl was a intact. He took a fresh dish towel and went on with his household work”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-7287727324648576322?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/7287727324648576322/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=7287727324648576322' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/7287727324648576322'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/7287727324648576322'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/11/crystal.html' title='Crystal'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SRXxEdv9NWI/AAAAAAAAAUY/r68zaGhFWzs/s72-c/broken+glass+2+005.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-407066736332486501</id><published>2008-11-07T22:37:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2008-11-07T23:54:14.937+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Nueve años despues</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SRTEWyy5iEI/AAAAAAAAAUA/S7wZP-xiP_Y/s1600-h/elections+nz+006+photoshopped.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SRTEWyy5iEI/AAAAAAAAAUA/S7wZP-xiP_Y/s400/elections+nz+006+photoshopped.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266049760174377026" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" &gt;Elecciones&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" &gt;Hoy hay elecciones en Nueva Zelanda. La votación ha empezado a las nueve, hace casi dos horas. Yo voté por correo hace casi dos semanas, no sé si ha llegado, pero espero que sí. Será la última vez que vote en ocho años, si no paso vivo más de seis meses en Nueva Zelanda.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" &gt;Tuve que registrarme desde España y enviar mi inscripción. Con los papeles que me mandaron estaba sobre con el franqueo pagado. Pagué por otro más porque dudaba de que cubriera el franqueo desde España. Pero no tengo dudas de que Nueva Zelanda no elegirá a Helen Clark por cuarta vez.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Elections&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" &gt;Today is Election day in New Zealand. Polls opened at nine am, nearly two hours ago. I posted my vote nearly two weeks ago, I don’t know if it got there, but I hope it did. It will be the last time I will be able to vote in eight years, if I don’t spend more than six months living in New Zealand.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" &gt;I had to enrol from Spain and post off my enrolment. With the papers they send me was this postage paid envelope. I paid for another one as I have my doubts that it covered overseas postage. What I don’t doubt is that New Zealand will not vote for Helen Clark a fourth time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-407066736332486501?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/407066736332486501/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=407066736332486501' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/407066736332486501'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/407066736332486501'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/11/nueve-aos-despues.html' title='Nueve años despues'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SRTEWyy5iEI/AAAAAAAAAUA/S7wZP-xiP_Y/s72-c/elections+nz+006+photoshopped.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-2043511839217052602</id><published>2008-11-03T23:28:00.010+01:00</published><updated>2008-11-04T00:19:06.446+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Cutreness</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SQ98gnAROKI/AAAAAAAAATw/iTR8VAVM8y0/s1600-h/fridge+tape+007.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SQ98gnAROKI/AAAAAAAAATw/iTR8VAVM8y0/s400/fridge+tape+007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264563389087168674" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;Apaño&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Siempre me ha sorprendido lo fácil que es adaptarse a las situaciones nuevas y vivir con ellas indefinidamente. Me refiero a cuando las cosas se estropean en casa y para mantener su función se encuentra una solución temporal hasta que el problema se arregla de manera adecuada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lo que ha ocurrido muchas veces en mi vida es que el problema no se arregla de manera adecuada hasta que alguien está a punto de tener un ataque de nervios años después o hasta que la vida de esos objetos domésticos expira por completo sin que nunca se hayan arreglado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hace un tiempo se rompió la manecilla del microondas, y como medida provisional puse unas pinzas de joyería junto al microondas. Se podía girar la ruedecilla y el microondas funcionaba; el tiempo era más o menos una estimación. Seis meses después, sigo empleando este método.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El otro día me di cuenta de que la puerta del congelador no estaba bien cerrada. Los cubitos seguían helados así que imaginé que no había estado abierta mucho tiempo. La volví a cerrar pero se abrió otra vez. Como soy una persona tozuda, jugué a este juego con el congelador durante un minuto. No funcionó. Como medida provisional lo cerré con cinta de enmascarar. Han pasado unos días y sigue funcionando. Mi proximo plan es comprar cinta aislante, que sujeta más.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Quick fix&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It has always surprised me how remarkably easy it is to adapt to new situations and live with them indefinitely. I am referring to when things go wrong about the house and in order to maintain function,  a temporary solution is found until the problem can be properly fixed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What has happened in my life many times is that the problem doesn’t get properly fixed until someone nearly has a nervous breakdown a few years later or until the life of said household  object expires completely without having being fixed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A while ago the timer knob of the microwave broke, as an intermediary measure I put some jewellery pliers beside the microwave. The dial could be grasped between them and the microwave would work, the time was more or less an estimate.  Six months later I am still employing this method.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other day I happened to notice the freezer door wasn’t closed properly. The ice cubes were still frozen so I guessed it hadn’t been left open too long. I shut it but it sprang open again. Being  a stubborn person I played this game with the freezer door for about a minute. No deal. As an intermediary measure I closed it with masking tape. A few days later it is still working. My next plan is to buy some installation tape as it holds better.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-2043511839217052602?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/2043511839217052602/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=2043511839217052602' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/2043511839217052602'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/2043511839217052602'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/11/cutreness.html' title='Cutreness'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SQ98gnAROKI/AAAAAAAAATw/iTR8VAVM8y0/s72-c/fridge+tape+007.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-5798705704444218393</id><published>2008-10-28T22:00:00.008+01:00</published><updated>2008-10-28T22:59:49.399+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Out foul jelly</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SQd9zooEBII/AAAAAAAAATo/wG7wbQM4IWQ/s1600-h/fridge+stain+023.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SQd9zooEBII/AAAAAAAAATo/wG7wbQM4IWQ/s400/fridge+stain+023.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262313015637968002" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" &gt;Paraguas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link style="font-family: arial;" rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDani%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:595.3pt 841.9pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;Llueve desde anoche en Zaragoza. Me di cuenta justo antes de irme a la cama. No me molesta la lluvia. En Auckland el tiempo cambia rápidamente porque estamos en un istmo. Sales para casa estás preparado para cualquier cosa, metes en el coche el jersey y el paraguas por si acaso.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Lo que no me gusta de la lluvia en España, o, más exactamente, en Zaragoza, es la gente con paraguas. Como aquí llueve tan pocas veces, casi nadie respeta la etiqueta del paraguas. La etiqueta del paraguas consiste en mirar a tu alrededor antes de abrir tu paraguas, en levantarlo y apartarlo de la gente, especialmente del área de los ojos. He estado a punto de perder un ojo en muchas ocasiones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;La etiqueta del paraguas también consiste en usar el paraguas cuando la lluvia es moderada o fuerte, no cuando gotea, porque resulta innecesario. Y finalmente, si por casualidad llevas un paraguas, no debes caminar por las partes de la calle que están resguardadas: cuando llueve son para la gente que va sin paraguas.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Umbrellas&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;"  class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;"  class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;It has been raining in Saragossa since last night. I noticed just before I went to bed. I don’t mind rainy weather. In Auckland the weather changes rapidly as we are on an isthmus. There when you leave the house you go prepared for anything, jumper and umbrella stashed in the car just in case.&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;"  class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" face="arial" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;What I don’t like about rainy weather in Spain, or more accurately Saragossa, is people with umbrellas. This is because it rains so infrequently here, hardly anybody has umbrella etiquette. Umbrella etiquette is looking around you before you open your umbrella, lifting it up and moving it out of people’s way, in particular their general eye area. I have nearly lost an eye on many occasions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;Umbrella etiquette also means only using your umbrella in moderate to heavy rain, not during light showers as it is unnecessary. And finally if you happen to have an umbrella, not walking in the sheltered bits of the street which when it is raining go to people without umbrellas.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-5798705704444218393?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/5798705704444218393/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=5798705704444218393' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/5798705704444218393'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/5798705704444218393'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/10/out-foul-jelly.html' title='Out foul jelly'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SQd9zooEBII/AAAAAAAAATo/wG7wbQM4IWQ/s72-c/fridge+stain+023.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-4577445269429139739</id><published>2008-10-10T02:40:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-10T02:53:09.619+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Housework</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SO6lDUun6EI/AAAAAAAAATg/V-24zJYmodI/s1600-h/fridge+stain+012.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SO6lDUun6EI/AAAAAAAAATg/V-24zJYmodI/s400/fridge+stain+012.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255319291710400578" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link style="font-family: arial;" rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDani%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:595.3pt 841.9pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Misterio sin resolver&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Acababa de arreglar una persiana y abrí el frigorífico para comer algo, mentalmente preparada para relajarme. Esta deprimente mancha marrón atrajo mi ojo. Había limpiado toda la nevera hacía poco, sacando los estantes y frotándolos. Incluso conseguí sacar el cajón de los huevos y limpiarlo. Venían mis padres y quería tener una casa limpia y bonita para ellos.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Todavía tengo que apagar el congelador, hay un polo centroeuropeo que crece allí dentro lentamente, pero aparte de eso pensé que me libraría del deber de limpiar el frigorífico por unos meses. Lo perturbador de esta mancha es que no llega del cajón de las verduras. Viene de algún sitio más alto. Eso significa que tengo que buscar cosas misteriosas que sangran una mugre marrón, lo que también estará en un lugar bastante alto en la escala de lo repulsivo.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Unsolved Mystery&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I had just finished repairing a shutter and opened the fridge to get something to eat, mentally prepared to relax. My eye was drawn down to this depressing brown stain. I had recently cleaned out the whole fridge, taking out the shelves and scrubbing them, cleaning the inside walls and the whole outside, I even worked out how to remove the egg compartment and cleaned it. My parents were coming and I wanted a nice clean house for them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;I still have to defrost the freezer, there is a Central European Pole slowly growing in there, but aside from that I thought I would be relieved from fridge cleaning duty for at least a few months. The perturbing thing about this stain is that it isn’t coming from the vegetable drawer – it is coming from somewhere higher up. That means I have to go searching for mysterious things bleeding brown goo, which will be pretty high up on the disgusting scale.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-4577445269429139739?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/4577445269429139739/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=4577445269429139739' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/4577445269429139739'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/4577445269429139739'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/10/housework.html' title='Housework'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SO6lDUun6EI/AAAAAAAAATg/V-24zJYmodI/s72-c/fridge+stain+012.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-4255961298733529747</id><published>2008-09-09T20:10:00.015+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-17T10:27:36.005+02:00</updated><title type='text'>So Long</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMa8oJIQs0I/AAAAAAAAAPI/WX5b7KJie38/s1600-h/silver+fern+and+mermaid+020.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMa8oJIQs0I/AAAAAAAAAPI/WX5b7KJie38/s400/silver+fern+and+mermaid+020.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244086213950878530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;"  class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pequeño Hueco&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;Hoy ha sido el último día de la vida de &lt;a href="http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2007/09/un-gato-llamado-lucky.html"&gt;Lucky&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Ha aparecido muerto ahogado en la piscina (la misma a la que se acerca demasiado en la foto). &lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Sara me ha llamado para darme la noticia. &lt;/span&gt;Ha dicho que había gastado sus siete vidas. Yo le he dicho que en inglés los gatos tienen nueve vidas, ella ha dicho que en Francia también. Qué pena que fuera español, ha dicho.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;La verdad es que el mundo me parece un poco más vacío sin ese &lt;a href="http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/08/lucky.html"&gt;pequeño gato &lt;/a&gt;con daños cerebrales y ojos azules del mismo tono del agua en la que ha encontrado su fin. Hice esta foto hace dos semanas, sin saber que sería la última. Mis padres llegan el sábado, y van a conocer a Daniel, mis amigos y su familia, pero también tenía ganas de presentarles a Lucky. Ahora no podré.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Adiós, Lucky. Te echo de menos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A Little gap&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Today was the last day of &lt;a href="http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2007/09/un-gato-llamado-lucky.html"&gt;Lucky’s&lt;/a&gt; life. He was found drowned in the swimming pool (the very one he is sitting too close to in the photo). Sara called me to give me the news. She said he had used up his seven lives, I told her that in English cats have nine lives, she said that it is the same in France. What a shame he was Spanish she said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;The truth is &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;I feel the world is a little emptier without this mentally damaged &lt;a href="http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/08/lucky.html"&gt;little cat&lt;/a&gt; with eyes the same shade of blue as the water in which he met his end. I took this photo two weeks ago, not knowing it was to be the last. My parents arrive on Saturday and as well as meeting Daniel, friends and his family, I also was looking forward to introducing them to Lucky. Now I cannot.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Goodbye Lucky. I miss you.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-4255961298733529747?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/4255961298733529747/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=4255961298733529747' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/4255961298733529747'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/4255961298733529747'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/09/so-long.html' title='So Long'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMa8oJIQs0I/AAAAAAAAAPI/WX5b7KJie38/s72-c/silver+fern+and+mermaid+020.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-8267701549185713296</id><published>2008-08-26T16:10:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-17T10:30:03.903+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Deportes</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SLQPErAsdFI/AAAAAAAAANA/2pEroHmg8hs/s1600-h/silver+fern+and+mermaid+003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SLQPErAsdFI/AAAAAAAAANA/2pEroHmg8hs/s400/silver+fern+and+mermaid+003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5238828839478260818" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: lucida grande;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;"&gt;Amistad&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link style="font-family: arial;" rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDani%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:595.3pt 841.9pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;Mi amigo gallego me llamó por la tarde del 20 de agosto para decirme que el neozelandés Nick Willis había ganado una medalla de bronce en la final de 1500 de los Juegos Olímpicos. Le alegraba mucho hablarme de una victoria neozelandesa. Habíamos visto juntos la final femenina de 10000 metros juntos el sábado 16. Yo pensaba que la corredora neozelandesa Kimberley Smith iba en tercera posición, y todos la animamos.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;El negro y el blanco son los colores deportivos de Nueva Zelanda. También se muestra el símbolo de un helecho plateado sobre el corazón. La corredora estadounidense Shalene Flanagan también iba vestida de blanco y negro, era rubia como Kimberley y yo confundí el símbolo de Nike con el helecho plateado. Me sentí triste cuando perdimos. Igual que el miércoles 13 cuando el equipo de chicos de hockey de Nueva Zelanda perdió contra España.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;Mi amigo gallego también fue testigo de otro brote de decepción nacional el 20 de mayo de 2007. Ese día el equipo de Nueva Zelanda perdió una carrera contra los españoles en la Copa América. Dan y mi amigo llegaron a casa mientras veía la carrera en Internet. Casi no los saludé y volví a la carrera, que íbamos perdiendo. Estaba enfadada y no tenía ganas de hablar. Cuando perdimos me eché a llorar. El nuestro era un equipo ganador que había venido a España a recuperar la Copa América. No tenía sentido que perdiéramos contra el inexperto equipo español.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;" face="arial"&gt;&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;Así que a mi amigo gallego al que le encantan todos los deportes y tiene una memoria enciclopédica de nombres y partidos y resultados le alegraba mucho tener la oportunidad de felicitarme por la victoria de mi compatriota. Yo estaba encantada con la noticia, pero secretamente decepcionada porque la medalla no fuera de oro.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;" face="arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;" face="arial"&gt;&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Friendship&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;" face="arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;My Gallician friend called me in the afternoon on the 20th of August to tell me that the New Zealander Nick Willis had won bronze in the Olympic 1500m final. He was very happy to tell me of a New Zealand victory. We had watched the women's 10,000 meters together on Saturday the 16th. I thought NZ runner Kimberley Smith was in third place, so we were all cheering for her.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Back and white are the sporting colours of New Zealand. The symbol of the silver fern is displayed over the heart. The American runner Shalene Flanagan was also dressed in black and white, was blond like Kimberley and I mistook the Nike swoosh for the silver fern. I was upset when we lost. Just as I had been on Wednesday the 13th when the New Zealand men's hockey team lost to Spain.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;My Gallician friend also witnessed another bout of national disappointment on 20th of May 2007. The day that the New Zealand team lost a race to the Spanish in the Americas Cup. Dan and my friend arrived home while I was watching the race on the Internet. I barely greeted them and went back to the race, which we were loosing. I was angry and not in the mood to talk. When we lost I started crying. Ours was a winning team who had come to Spain to reclaim the Americas cup. We had no business loosing to the inexperienced Spanish team.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" &gt;So my Gallician friend who loves all sports and has an encyclopedic memory of names and games and scores, was very happy to finally have an opportunity to congratulate me on my fellow countrymans achievement. I was delighted at the notice, but secretly disappointed it wasn't gold.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-8267701549185713296?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/8267701549185713296/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=8267701549185713296' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/8267701549185713296'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/8267701549185713296'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/08/colores-deportivos.html' title='Deportes'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SLQPErAsdFI/AAAAAAAAANA/2pEroHmg8hs/s72-c/silver+fern+and+mermaid+003.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-5756426002270205384</id><published>2008-08-20T22:35:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-10T17:08:48.229+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Burning down the house</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SKyAgPPpBLI/AAAAAAAAAMM/iJawRlWL8Qc/s1600-h/burning+down+the+house.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SKyAgPPpBLI/AAAAAAAAAMM/iJawRlWL8Qc/s400/burning+down+the+house.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236701758061348018" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDani%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Olvido&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;He atravesado un periodo de extrema estupidez últimamente. Meter los dedos en la boca de un gato que sufría un ataque epiléptico sería el ejemplo reciente más espectacular. La otra noche estaba haciendo la cena, acababa de quitarme las vendas de los dedos.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;u1:p style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Dan llegó a casa cuando estaba empezando. Lo seguí al comedor para que me hablara de su primer día de trabajo. Me hablaba de sus compañeros de trabajo, de la diferencia de su trabajo anterior y éste. Estábamos charlando, decidiendo entre los pimientos fritos que yo iba a preparar o ir a un restaurante chino cuando noté un olor.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;u1:p style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Eché a correr por un pasillo lleno de humo, en una cocina que despedía cortinas de humo. Mierda. Ahora sí que voy a tener que volver a Nueva Zelanda, pensé, he quemado la casa. Sin embargo, gracias a mi propósito de intentar perder peso había usado muy poco aceite. Afortunadamente no había tanto como que salieran llamas de la sartén que iba a utilizar para freír los pimientos.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;u1:p style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Con los ojos llenos de lágrimas por el humo, apagué el fogón, aparté la sartén y cerré la puerta con fuerza. Después tuve que volver y abrir la ventana a causa de una sugerencia caballeresca. Con la garganta en carne viva empecé a toser, nos echamos a reír y decidimos que ir a cenar al chino era una buena idea.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Forgetfulness&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;I have been having a streak of extreme stupidity lately. Putting my fingers in the mouth of a cat having an epileptic fit would be the most spectacular recent example. The other night I was preparing dinner, my fingers recently out of their bandages.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Dan came home just as I was getting things started. I followed him into the lounge to hear about the first day at his new job. He was telling me about his co workers, the difference between his old job and the new. We were chatting away, deliberating between the fried peppers I was going to cook or going out for Chinese when I noticed a smell.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;I hit the ground running, into a hallway filled with smoke, into a kitchen belching out sheets of smoke. Shit. Now really do have to go back to NZ I thought, I have set the place on fire. However due to a decision to try and loose weight I had used very little oil, luckily there wasn’t enough to ignite the pan I was going to use to fry the peppers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Eyes streaming I turned off the element, removed the pan and slammed the door closed. I then had to run back in and open the window due to gentlemanly suggestion. Throat raw I started coughing, we started laughing and decided Chinese for dinner was a good idea.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-5756426002270205384?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/5756426002270205384/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=5756426002270205384' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/5756426002270205384'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/5756426002270205384'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/08/burning-down-house.html' title='Burning down the house'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SKyAgPPpBLI/AAAAAAAAAMM/iJawRlWL8Qc/s72-c/burning+down+the+house.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-2270531210214457947</id><published>2008-08-16T19:57:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2008-11-04T00:28:58.332+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Lucky</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SKcVQqI-P3I/AAAAAAAAAME/4CKj2lEqAfE/s1600-h/photoshoped+hands+focused.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SKcVQqI-P3I/AAAAAAAAAME/4CKj2lEqAfE/s400/photoshoped+hands+focused.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235176467775504242" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;"&gt;El gato epiléptico&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Sábado 9 de agosto. Estábamos cuidando la casa de los padres de Daniel. Eran las tres y media de la tarde, acabábamos de terminar de comer y estábamos viendo una película mala pero divertida en la tele, cuando por el rabillo del ojo vi que uno de los perros estaba atacando a Lucky –&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2007/09/un-gato-llamado-lucky.html"&gt;el gato pequeño y blanco&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;-, mordiéndole la espalda. Me levanté para pararlo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Después Lucky tuvo un ataque de epilepsia (tiene esta enfermedad desde que le pisé la cabeza cuando era pequeño). Mientras mantenía a los perros a distancia de Lucky le dije a Dan que me trajera una toalla, para envolver al gato y ayudarle con sus temblores y convulsiones. La toalla empezó a mancharse con la espuma sanguinolenta que salía de la boca de Lucky.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Para evitar que se mordiera la lengua le metí los dedos en la boca. No sé qué estaba pensando. Mis dedos índice y corazón estaban en su boca y lo acariciaba con la mano izquierda, cuando de repente mordió con fuerza, siguiendo la evolución natural de un ataque epiléptico.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;No podia sacar los dedos, así que usé los dedos de la mano izquierda para intentar abrirle la boca, y también se quedaron atrapados. Pedí ayuda a Dan a gritos, vino corriendo e intentó abrir la boca de Lucky. Estábamos de pie: Dan sujetaba a Lucky y yo intentaba darle instrucciones para abrir la boca del gato.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Entonces el gato me clavó las uñas en la cara. Soy por naturaleza muy presumida, paso horas mirándome al espejo pero en ese momento sólo me preocupaba el intenso dolor de mis dedos. Puede hacerme en la cara lo que quiera; arrancarme la piel a tiras si eso significa que puedo recuperar los dedos. Pero tuvimos que olvidarnos de los afilados dientes clavados en mis dedos durante unos segundos para separar el gato de mi cara, porque dejarlo como nuevo apéndice facial hacía que resultara muy difícil liberar mis manos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Pasaron lentamente tres minutos llenos de angustia: yo intentaba sacar las manos, Dan trataba de agarrar la parte del cuello de Lucky que le obligaría a abrir la boca. Cuando el ataque empezó a remitir pude recuperar los dedos y correr hacia el baño y lavarme las manos. El dolor físico era malo, pero lo que resultaba y resulta peor era el dolor agudo y punzante de completa estupidez con que me quedé.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;"&gt;The Epileptic Cat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Saturday the 9th of August. We were house-sitting for Daniel’s parents. It was about 3.30pm, we had just finished eating lunch and were watching a bad but funny movie on T.V, when out of the corner of my eye I noticed one of the dogs was attacking Lucky - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2007/09/un-gato-llamado-lucky.html"&gt;the little white cat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt; - biting his back. I got up to stop it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Lucky then started having an epileptic fit (a result of the damage I did to him when I stepped on his head as a kitten). Keeping the dogs away from Lucky I told Dan to get me a towel so I could wrap him and help him with his tremors. The towel began to be splattered with bloody foam from Luckies mouth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;To help him not bite down on his tounge I put my fingers in his mouth. What I was thinking I really don’t know. My right index and middle fingers were in his mouth and with my left hand I was stroking him, when suddenly he bit down, hard, the natural progress of a fit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;I couldn’t get my fingers out so I used my left hand fingers to try and prise his mouth open, they too got caught. I yelled to Dan for help, he came running and tried to help open Luckies mouth. We were standing up, Dan holding Lucky and me trying to give instructions on how to open the cat’s mouth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;The cat then stuck its claws in my face. I am by nature very vain, I have spent many hours in front of mirrors but in that moment I only cared about the searing pain in my fingers. He can do what he wants to my face I thought; rip it to shreads if it means I can have my fingers back. But we had to forget about the sharp teeth clamped into my fingers for a few seconds to remove the cat from my face as leaving him as a new appendage made it too difficult to free my hands.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Three very anguishing minutes past, slowly: me trying to yank my hands to safety, Dan trying to hold the part of Lucky’s neck that would force him to open his mouth. When the fit began to subside I was able reclaim my fingers and run to the bathroom and wash my hands.The physical pain was bad, but what was and is worse is the sharp stabbing pain of utter stupidity I am left with.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Photo thanks to Daniel Gascón&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-2270531210214457947?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/2270531210214457947/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=2270531210214457947' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/2270531210214457947'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/2270531210214457947'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/08/lucky.html' title='Lucky'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SKcVQqI-P3I/AAAAAAAAAME/4CKj2lEqAfE/s72-c/photoshoped+hands+focused.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-7216066981789137313</id><published>2008-08-15T11:36:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2008-11-04T00:33:09.043+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Counting sheep</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SKVOWEe7abI/AAAAAAAAAL8/fAqzkRh9HCE/s1600-h/counting+sheep.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SKVOWEe7abI/AAAAAAAAAL8/fAqzkRh9HCE/s400/counting+sheep.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234676282955622834" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;"&gt;Sueño&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Anoche tuve muchos problemas para dormir. Tumbada, cambiaba de posición y respiraba profundamente, pero nada funcionaba. La ayuda clásica para dormir es contar ovejas. Esto nunca me ha funcionado. Quizás porque las ovejas son demasiado reales para mi, Nueva Zelanda y Australia tienen un chiste sobre los habitantes del otro país, a los que le acusa de follar ovejas, porque ambas naciones tienen muchas ovejas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Contar ovejas no me sirve. No es porque las ovejas me exciten, sino porque mi imaginación las crea de formas distintas: una tiene  lana velluda, otra es punky, otra tiene pendientes largos, otra lleva un maletín y cuando estoy harta de aplicar atributos físicos, les asigno personalidades. Esta odia el olor de cafeína, aquella es una gran fan de Otis Redding. Lo encuentro muy estresante y, en pocas palabras, no me relaja.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Entonces, en mitad de mi noche en blanco, empecé a sentir pánico. Yo creo que todo el mundo ha pasado por lo menos un noche de angustia por no dormir. Decidí que al menos podía utilizar mi tiempo productivamente. No para levantarme para trabajar o leer sino para reorganizar mentalmente las cosas en el apartamento. Mover estanterías, comprar más, pintar paredes, hacer la colada. Pasé un buen rato completando muchas cosas y al final me dormí, creo que eligiendo distintos tipos de fibra de madera para las estanterías&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;"&gt;Sleep&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Last night I had great difficulty sleeping. I lay awake changing positions, deep breathing, nothing worked. The classic sleeping aid is to count sheep. That has never worked for me. Perhaps because sheep are too real for me, New Zealand and Australia have a joke that those from the other country are sheep shaggers, owing to the large amounts of sheep in both. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Counting sheep doesn’t work for me, not because I am excited by them but because in my imagination I make each one different, one has fluffy wool, another is punky looking, another wears dangly earrings, another carries a briefcase and when I get sick of applying only physical attributes I assign personalities. This one hates the smell of coffee, that one is a huge fan on Otis Redding. I find it very stressful and in short it doesn’t relax me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;So in my aforementioned sleeplessness I started to panic. I think everyone has experienced at least one night of sleep deprived anguish. I decided I may as well use my time productively. Not getting up and working or reading but by reorganizing mentally things in the apartment. Moving bookshelves, buying more, painting walls, doing the laundry. I spend a very happy time accomplishing a lot and eventually fell asleep, I think choosing different types of shelving wood grains.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-7216066981789137313?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/7216066981789137313/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=7216066981789137313' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/7216066981789137313'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/7216066981789137313'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/08/counting-sheep.html' title='Counting sheep'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SKVOWEe7abI/AAAAAAAAAL8/fAqzkRh9HCE/s72-c/counting+sheep.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-2705058713498866184</id><published>2008-07-29T19:42:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2008-07-29T19:58:53.655+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Cosas extrañas</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SI9WwLwCQLI/AAAAAAAAALs/4_P3usGcBSI/s1600-h/blog.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SI9WwLwCQLI/AAAAAAAAALs/4_P3usGcBSI/s400/blog.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228493078188409010" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Higos&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Probé un higo por primera vez la otra noche. Compré algunos en la frutería la semana pasada, pero se me chafaron en el camino a casa y tuve que tirarlos. Así que volví y compré algunos más.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Los compré porque me intrigaba esta cosa de aspecto extraño e, imbuida del espíritu de vivir en un país extranjero como una extranjera pedí cuatro, un número lo bastante pequeño si eran horribles y lo suficientemente grande si estaban buenos.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;Dan me enseñó cómo comerlos y dijo que alguna gente los prefiere sin piel pero la piel se puede comer. &lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Como soy vaga por naturaleza preferí comerlos con piel. Le pregunté qué eran. “Higos”, dijo. “¿Eh?”, pregunté. “Figs”. Guau, higos: había comprado higos sin saberlo. &lt;/span&gt;En Nueva Zelanda sólo se pueden comprar higos secos, y nunca los había probado.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;No fue una mala experiencia, tienen un sabor muy sutil y una textura ligeramente crujiente y un aspecto muy sexual. Me siento muy exótica por tener higos en la nevera.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Figs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;The other night was the first time I had tried a fig. I bought some in a fruit and vegetable store last week, but they got pulverised on the way home, I had to throw them away. So I went back and bought some more.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;I bought them as I was intrigued by this strange looking thing and in the spirit of living in a foreign country as a foreigner I asked for four, a safely small number if they were horrible and a safely big number if they were ok.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Dan showed me how to eat them and said some people prefer them without skin but you can happily eat the skin. As I am naturally lazy I opted for skin on. I asked him what they were ‘higos’ he said, ‘huh?’ I replied. ‘Figs’. Wow figs, I had unknowingly bought Figs. In NZ you can only buy dried figs and I had never tried them. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;It wasn’t a bad experience, they have a very subtle flavour and a slightly crunchy texture and a very sexual appearance. I feel very exotic to have figs in the fridge.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-2705058713498866184?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/2705058713498866184/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=2705058713498866184' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/2705058713498866184'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/2705058713498866184'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/07/cosas-extraas.html' title='Cosas extrañas'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SI9WwLwCQLI/AAAAAAAAALs/4_P3usGcBSI/s72-c/blog.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-2089167976645936048</id><published>2008-07-26T15:47:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-07-26T16:00:09.674+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Bonobús</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SIsrNKK9t9I/AAAAAAAAALk/qBCKkBxNAxk/s1600-h/Autobus.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SIsrNKK9t9I/AAAAAAAAALk/qBCKkBxNAxk/s400/Autobus.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227319297562228690" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Progreso&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Ayer me subí al autobús después del trabajo. Estaba sentada y tenía calor y quería sentarle. Me se senté al lado de un tipo, que tenía entre 20 y 30 años. Tenía las piernas abiertas, en el estilo que a los hombres les gusta sentarse. Sin embargo este hombre no hizo lo normal, y no las juntó un poco cuando yo me senté.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Estaba ocupando parte del espacio de mis piernas y como no me gusta que me aplasten contra ninguna parte de un desconocido, tenía que sentarme en un ángulo extraño. Eché humo un par de minutos antes de moverme hacia la parte del autobús en la que se viaja de pie, donde seguí furiosa.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;He viajado en los sistemas de transporte de varios países y siempre me he encontrado con hombres que deben tener atributos hiperdesarrollados en la zona sur o, de manera más probable, son muy groseros y no se dan cuenta de que están invadiendo el espacio de otra persona.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Hoy he estado a punto de preguntarle a mi breve compañero de asiento: “¿De verdad crees que tus huevos son tan grandes?”. Pero tendré que esperar hasta que los míos crezcan un poco más para hacer esa pregunta. Aunque cada vez que ocurre esto crecen un poco más.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Progress&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;          &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Yesterday I got on the bus after work. I was tired and I was hot and I wanted to sit down.I sat down next to a guy, who I think was aged between 20 and 30. He had his legs wide apart in the style that men like to sit in. However this man didn’t to the usual and move them a little closer together when I sat down.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;He was taking up part of my leg room and as I don't like to be pressed up against any part of a stranger, I had to sit at a weird angle. I fumed for a couple of minutes before moving to the standing part of the bus where I continued fuming.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;I have been on the public transport systems of various countries and I have always encountered men who either must have something super sized going on down south or more likely are just very rude and do not notice they are encroaching on someone else's space.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Today I nearly asked my brief seat companion, "Just how big do you think your balls are?" But I will have to wait until mine get bigger to ask that question. But each time this happens they get just a little bigger.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-2089167976645936048?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/2089167976645936048/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=2089167976645936048' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/2089167976645936048'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/2089167976645936048'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/07/bonobs.html' title='Bonobús'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SIsrNKK9t9I/AAAAAAAAALk/qBCKkBxNAxk/s72-c/Autobus.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-6694941637319413668</id><published>2008-07-21T18:27:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2008-08-14T20:29:06.380+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Little Frogs</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SIS5Z9oUwtI/AAAAAAAAALc/_5o3BjvXu0s/s1600-h/expo+frog+and+moon+20+july+2008+002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SIS5Z9oUwtI/AAAAAAAAALc/_5o3BjvXu0s/s400/expo+frog+and+moon+20+july+2008+002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225505323348181714" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Visión Nocturna&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;He estado tres veces en la Expo. Me gusta el camino que hay que recorrer para llegar. Me gusta el paseo hasta allí. Me gusta el aspecto de yate que la Pasarela de Manterola le da al río Ebro, pero no me gusta la experiencia de caminar sobre ella. Tengo un oído interno muy sensible y ese puente me marea.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p face="arial" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Me encantan las pequeñas ranas que se posan en el muro bajo que enmarca el Ebro. Cuando tenía 14 años cuidaba a los hijos de mi vecino desde las 6 de la mañana hasta las 12 del mediodía. A veces íbamos a cazar ranas. A los chicos les gustaba coger ranas, al principio yo era demasiado ñoña y escrupulosa. Después aprendí a apreciar la belleza sencilla de las ranas. Utilizaba el tiempo que trabajaba de canguro para practicar fotografía, y hacía muchas fotos de mis chicos y sus ranas. Me temo que las he perdido, pero no he perdido la esperanza de que aparezcan algún día. Mientras tanto encuentro placer en las 610 ranillas de Miguel Ángel Arrudi y Fernando Bayo.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p face="arial" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Night Vision&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p style="font-family: arial;"&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;I have been in the Expo three times now. I like the walking it involves getting there. I like the walk up to the expo. I like the yatchlike presence the Pasarela bridge gives the river Ebro however I do not like the experience of walking along it. I have a very sensitive inner ear and traversing this bridge makes me feel sea sick. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love the little frogs that alight the low wall that frames the Ebro. When I was 14 I would babysit the next door neighbours children on Saturday mornings from 6am till 12 in the afternoon. Sometimes we would go frog hunting. The boys liked getting frogs, at first I was girly and squeamish, later I grew to appreciate the simple beauty of frogs. I would use my time babysitting to practice my photography and I took many shots of my boys and their frogs. I fear I have lost these but have not lost hope that they will turn up one day. Meanwhile I take pleasure in the 610 little frogs of Miguel Ángel Arrudi y Fernando Bayo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-6694941637319413668?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/6694941637319413668/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=6694941637319413668' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/6694941637319413668'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/6694941637319413668'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/07/little-frogs.html' title='Little Frogs'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SIS5Z9oUwtI/AAAAAAAAALc/_5o3BjvXu0s/s72-c/expo+frog+and+moon+20+july+2008+002.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-8405407704750225463</id><published>2008-06-29T14:36:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T14:43:09.462+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Sola</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SGeCzy6cciI/AAAAAAAAALU/fWKhvzix82Q/s1600-h/Christmas+Gallica06+and+apartment+feb+07+063.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SGeCzy6cciI/AAAAAAAAALU/fWKhvzix82Q/s400/Christmas+Gallica06+and+apartment+feb+07+063.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217282519683854882" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;"&gt;Horas Negras&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Hice esta foto en Galicia, en las Navidades de 2006. Me gustó la imagen del ser solitario, el pescador solo, con sus redes y el océano y nada más. &lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Hombre solitario. &lt;/span&gt;Ayer tuve un ataque de las “horas negras”, me sentía sola en el mundo... Después de una hora o así conseguí escaparme, más o menos.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Más tarde repetí los pasos que había seguido cuando fui a comprar zapatos en Madrid dos años antes. Necesitaba sandalias de verano y el camino que había hecho aquel día tenía muchas zapaterías y zapatos maravillosos. Encontré unos zapatos que me gustaban pero no eran lo que buscaba. Seguí buscando mi santo grial, mientras la sensación de soledad regresaba lentamente.&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Un par de horas más tarde me extrañaba no haber recibido un mensaje o una llamada de Dan sobre los planes para esa noche. &lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Saqué mi teléfono móvil, la batería estaba muerta. Joder. &lt;/span&gt;Con cierta vergüenza tengo que confesar que no me sabía su teléfono de memoria (desde entonces he corregido esto) ni la dirección en la que nos quedábamos a dormir, estaba realmente sola en el mundo, hombre solitario.&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt; Me puse a pensar deprisa. Necesitaba una tienda de Vodafone para recargar mi batería – encontré una pero aparentemente no era “oficial” y no recargaba baterías, y si el cliente compraba un cargador no le ofrecían un enchufe para utilizarlo. Sin embargo me dieron la dirección de una tienda oficial de Vodafone a la vuelta de la esquina.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt; La tienda estaba llena y esperé diez minutos muy nerviosa, aguardando que llegara mi turno y al borde de las lágrimas, con la esperanza de que me ayudasen. Lo hicieron y fueron muy amables. Me dijeron que me fuera de compras durante media hora mientras se cargaba el móvil. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Encontré los zapatos que buscaba, en la misma calle en la que estaba la tienda de Vodafone. De ninguna manera pensaba moverme de esa calle por si volvía a perderme. &lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Caminé ansiosamente hasta que pasó media hora. &lt;/span&gt;Recuperé mi teléfono y volví a conectarme con el mundo. Me di cuenta de que no estaba sola en el mundo, mis “horas negras” quedaban atrás.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Mean Reds&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I took this photo in Galicia, Christmas time 2006. I liked the image of the solitary being, the lone fisherman, with his nets and the ocean and nothing more. Solitary man. Yesterday morning I had an attack of the “mean reds”, I felt alone in the world etc... After about an hour or so I snapped out of them, more or less. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Later that day I went to retrace footsteps I had made in Madrid shoe shopping two years earlier. I needed summer sandals and the route I had walked then had yielded many wonderful shoe shops and shoes to choose from. I found some shoes I kinda liked but not really what I was after. I continued looking for my holy grail, with that solitary feeling creeping back. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;After a couple of hours I was surprised not to have received a message or a call from Dan about that nights plans. I took out my mobile phone, the battery was dead. Fuck. It is with some embarrassment that I confess I did not know his number by heart (I have since rectified this) nor did I know the address where we were staying, I really was lost in the world, solitary man.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I did some quick thinking, I needed a Vodafone shop to recharge my battery – I found one but apparently it wasn’t ‘offical’ and didn’t recharge batteries or if the customer bought a recharger wouldn’t offer a socket with which to recharge. They did however give me the address of an official Vodafone shop just around the corner. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;The shop was packed and I waited 10 very nervous minutes for my turn, on the verge of tears hoping they would help me. They did, and very friendlily. They told me to go shopping for half an hour while I waited. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; I found the shoes I was looking for, on the same street as the Vodafone shop, no way in hell was I moving from that street in case I lost myself again. I anxiously walked around until half an hour had passed. I got my phone back and reconnected with the world, realising I was not alone in the world, my ‘mean reds’ left behind.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-8405407704750225463?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/8405407704750225463/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=8405407704750225463' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/8405407704750225463'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/8405407704750225463'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/06/sola.html' title='Sola'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SGeCzy6cciI/AAAAAAAAALU/fWKhvzix82Q/s72-c/Christmas+Gallica06+and+apartment+feb+07+063.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-1264111531846221947</id><published>2008-05-31T21:41:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2008-07-21T23:57:58.462+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Language</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SEGqSWM9B2I/AAAAAAAAALM/FNA-a3QLU_s/s1600-h/crab+photoshop.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SEGqSWM9B2I/AAAAAAAAALM/FNA-a3QLU_s/s400/crab+photoshop.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206629876391282530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Palabras&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;p  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;He estado estudiando español durante los dos últimos años. A veces pierdo la esperanza de alcanzar fluidez en castellano. Sin embargo la mayoría de las veces disfruto viendo cómo crece lentamente mi habilidad para comunicarte. Hay un momento del que estoy muy orgullosa. Ocurrió más o menos hace un año.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Estaba comprando en Mercadona. Pasaba despacio junto a la pescadería, mirando las criaturas marinas expuestas. Había una pequeña caja de madera junto a los camarones reales, se movía un poco. Me pregunté qué criaturas estarían atrapadas allí dentro, tan lejos de su casa.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Fui a buscar verduras, yogures, etc. Me di cuenta de que había olvidado comprar lentejas. Al acercarme a la pescadería de nuevo vi que la caja que había abajo se abría, una fuerza insistente la movía por debajo. Me detuve para mirar. Afortunadamente la pescadera estaba ocupada con una larga lista de peticiones muy específicas, y podía quedarme allí sin tener que decir nada.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p face="arial"&gt;Unos treinta segundos después vi que una pequeña pinza se liberaba, luego otra y después de un minuto de lucha el cuerpo de un pequeño cangrejo lograba salir de la caja. Sus pinzas estaban atadas, supongo que para que no atacase a sus captores. Se arrastró tímidamente por encima de los camarones y hacia el filo de la plataforma cubierta de hielo. La mujer estaba limpiando y no había nadie más por ahí: otro golpe de suerte.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p  style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:arial;"&gt;Mientras yo intentaba llamar su atención el cangrejo había saltado del mostrador hasta el suelo, movía sus pinzas en un estilo amenazador de judo. Obtuve la atención de la pescatera y señalé hacia el cangrejo, que por supuesto ella no podía ver. "Hola, ahh, hay un …" Estaba señalando al pobre y pequeño fugitivo, no recordaba la palabra que se utiliza para cangrejo en castellano. "Hay, hay… un marisco que vive. Lo siento, no recuerdo el nombre de este animal."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p  style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p face="arial" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"&gt;La mujer sonrió y me dijo la palabra, se rió del cangrejo y lo tocó compasivamente antes de devolverlo a la caja y poner un peso sobre la tapa para evitar más incidentes. Pobre, dijo, y otras cosas que no entendí, pero estaba sonriendo, yo respondí con otra sonrisa, con la esperanza de que fuera adecuado.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Words&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I have been learning Spanish for the last two years. Sometimes I despair of ever attaining fluency in the Spanish language. Mostly however I enjoy my slowly growing abilities to communicate. I have one moment of which I am very proud. It happened about a year ago.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p face="arial"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I was in Mercadona doing the shopping. I was cruising slowly past the fresh fish section, looking at the weird types of sea creatures on display. There was a small wooden crate just behind the king prawns, it was moving a little. I wondered what poor creatures were stuck in there so far away from home. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p face="arial"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I went on to chose my vegetables, yoghurt's etc. I realised I had forgotten to get more lentils. As I approached the fresh fish section again I noticed that the crate lid was now opening under the repeated force below. I stopped to watch. Luckily the shop assistant was occupied by an old woman with a long list and very specific demands, so I could stand there and not have to speak. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;After about thirty seconds later I saw a little claw break free, then another and after about a minute the body of a little crab forced its way out of the crate. Its claws were bound, I guess so as not to attack its captors. It sidled over the king prawns and down to the edge of the ice platform. The woman was cleaning up and there was nobody else around, another strike of luck.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p face="arial" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span id="1eqp"&gt;As I tried to get her attention the crab had jumped off the display and onto the floor, it was waving around its claws in a threatening judo style. I got the assistants attention and motioned to the crab, which of course she couldn`t see. "Hello, ahhh there is..." I said pointing to the poor little escapee, I couldn't remember the word for crab. "There is, there is...seafood that lives". " Sorry I can't remember the word for this animal".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face="arial" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span id="1eqp"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;" lang="EN-GB"&gt;The woman smiled and told me the word, she laughed at the crab and patted it &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt; compassionately&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" &gt; before she returned it to the crate and adding a weight on top to avoid further incident. Poor thing she said, and other stuff that I didn't get, but she was smiling, I smiled back and laughed, hoping it was appropriate.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-1264111531846221947?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/1264111531846221947/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=1264111531846221947' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/1264111531846221947'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/1264111531846221947'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/05/language.html' title='Language'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SEGqSWM9B2I/AAAAAAAAALM/FNA-a3QLU_s/s72-c/crab+photoshop.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-5890147223031925146</id><published>2008-05-28T12:00:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-05-28T12:05:16.097+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Gallipoli</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SD0tV2M9B1I/AAAAAAAAALE/CmbZCCYlCBM/s1600-h/poppies+and+shoes+002[1].jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5205366597660510034" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SD0tV2M9B1I/AAAAAAAAALE/CmbZCCYlCBM/s400/poppies+and+shoes+002%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Amapolas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Ahora los campos alrededor de Zaragoza brillan con amapolas salvajes. Son una vista hermosa, delicada, de un rojo vibrante, y se agitan en sus piernas delgadas entre los pastos verdes. Sin embargo cuando las veo pienso en la guerra. La amapola es el símbolo del ANZAC (Ejército de Australia y Nueva Zelanda), un ejército formado por soldados australianos y neozelandeses que combatió contra los turcos y después en Oriente Medio y el frente occidental durante la Primera Guerra Mundial. Gallipoli es la batalla más famosas en la que participó.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;La batalla de Gallipoli empezó el 25 de abril de 1915 y terminó el 9 de enero de 1916. La orden era tomar posesión de la península turca de Gallipoli y avanzar a través de Turquía hasta Constantinopla (ahora Estambul) para dominar una ruta marítima hasta Rusia. Era un objetivo difícil de conseguir. Los soldados desembarcaron en las playas, donde los esperaba el enemigo. Fue una matanza que duró meses. Después de que una tormenta y un temporal a finales de noviembre demostraran que los aliados ya no podían mantener su posición ni reducir el número de heridos, se dio la orden de retirada.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Irónicamente, la evacuación de Gallipoli fue la parte más exitosa de la campaña. Los últimos soldados de ANZAC se marcharon el 20 de diciembre, las últimas tropas británicas se fueron el 9 de enero. No se perdieron tropas aliadas durante el proceso de evacuación. En Gallipoli murieron 20.000 soldados australianos y quedaron heridos 7.594; Nueva Zelanda perdió 4.546 hombres y tuvo 2.701 heridos. Los turcos perdieron 140.000 soldados; 55.801 quedaron heridos. Ahora los campos de Gallipoli está rojos por las amapolas, al igual que antes estaban rojos por la sangre de los combatientes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;El día de ANZAC se celebra en Australia y Nueva Zelanda el 25 de abril. La asociación de soldados veteranos vende amapolas de fieltro para recaudar fondos. Las calles se llenan de cestas de amapolas rojas este día. Los primeros ministros de los dos países viajan a Gallipoli para conmemorar la muerte de sus compatriotas. El poema “A los caídos” de Laurence Binyon se lee todos los años en la ceremonia. Ésta es la estrofa más famosa del poema: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Ellos no envejecerán, como haremos los que quedamos:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;La edad no les cansará, ni los años les condenarán.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;En la puesta de sol y en la mañana, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;les recordaremos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Poppies&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now the fields of Saragossa are alight with red poppies growing wild. They are a beautiful sight, delicate, vibrantly red, swaying on their thin legs amongst green pastures. However when I see them I think of war. The Poppy is the symbol of the ANZAC’s (Australia New Zealand Army Corps) an army corp that was formed of New Zealand and Australian soldiers who fought against the Turkish and then later in the Middle East and on the Western Front in WWI. The most famous battle this group fought was the battle of Gallipoli.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The battle of Gallipoli was fought from the 25th of April 1915 till the 9th of January 1916. The order was to take possession of the Turkish peninsula at Gallipoli and advance through Turkey to Constantinople (now Istanbul) and secure a sea route to Russia. The objective was difficult to attain. The soldiers landed on the beaches and had to try and take possession of the mountains climbing up from the beaches where the enemy were waiting. It was open slaughter that lasted for months. After a storm and a blizzard in late November made it obvious the Allied troops could no longer hold their position or maintain the number causalities, the order to retreat was given.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The evacuation of Gallipoli was ironically the most successful part of the campaign. The last of the ANZAC troops left on the 20th of December, the last British soldiers pulling out on the 9th of January. No allied troops were lost during the evacuation process. The total number of Australian Soldiers killed at Gallipoli were 20,000 with 7,594 wounded. New Zealand lost 4.546 men and 2,701 soldiers were wounded. The Turkish lost 140,000 soldiers and another 55,801 were wounded. Now the fields of Gallipoli are red with Poppies, just as they were once red with the blood of men. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;ANZAC day is celebrated in Australia and New Zealand on the 25th of April every year. The RSA (Returned and Services' Association) sell felt poppies to raise money. The streets are full of red poppied chests on this day. The Prime Ministers of each country travel to Gallipoli to commemorate the loss of their fellow countrymen. The poem For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon is read every year at ANZAC ceremonies. This is the most famous verse of his poem:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;At the going down of the sun and in the morning&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;We will remember them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-5890147223031925146?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/5890147223031925146/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=5890147223031925146' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/5890147223031925146'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/5890147223031925146'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/05/gallipoli.html' title='Gallipoli'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SD0tV2M9B1I/AAAAAAAAALE/CmbZCCYlCBM/s72-c/poppies+and+shoes+002%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-3053144091880881360</id><published>2008-05-26T15:39:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-05-26T15:45:45.546+02:00</updated><title type='text'>For Dad</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SDq9-GM9ByI/AAAAAAAAAKs/MGjdRp5wRDA/s1600-h/poppies+and+shoes+027.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204681193894512418" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SDq9-GM9ByI/AAAAAAAAAKs/MGjdRp5wRDA/s400/poppies+and+shoes+027.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Zapatos nuevos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Tengo que enseñarle a mi padre estos zapatos. Los vi en la revista Vogue y me enamoré de ellos. Son de Ugg en Australia y sabía que no serían muy caros. Los compré a una tienda en Estados Unidos. Llegaron el jueves. Son preciosos. El viernes por la mañana me pinté las uñas de los pies y me puse mis zapatos nuevos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Trabajé en un encargo que tenía pendiente desde hacía mucho tiempo y comí con Aloma. De cuando en cuando miraba hacia abajo y admiraba mis pies con sus nuevas galas. Me preocupaba no poder llevarlos a la clase que tenía por la tarde, porque llovía y no quería que se mojaran y ensuciasen en su primer día. Afortunadamente salió el sol y secó la lluvia. Podía estrenarlos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Casi sin darme cuenta, me preguntaba por qué no compro más zapatos. Me encanta. No me gasto mucho dinero en mí misa pero de vez en cuando tiro la casa por la ventana: ¿por qué no gastar más en zapatos?, me preguntaba. Obtuve una respuesta a mitad de clase. El dolor, la sensación atroz de un zapato que desprende poco a poco y con ayuda de tus movimientos la capa superior de tu piel. Hasta tal punto que las partes donde los zapatos han decidido dominar tus pobres pies se quedan en carne viva.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Mientras cojeaba hacia clase, la madre de mis alumnos me preguntó qué me pasaba. "Zapatos nuevos", expliqué. "Ahh", asintió compasivamente. Después de clase me contó en el ascensor que le encantaba comprar ropa pero que se lo pensaba dos veces antes de comprar zapatos. "Detesto tirar los zapatos, cuesta tanto esfuerzo que cojan la forma del pie que siempre es una pena separarse de ellos." Me dio algunos consejos para forzar el tejido.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;A mi padre también le gustan mucho los zapatos pero sólo compra un par nuevo cuando el anterior está destrozado. Se controla más que yo. Pero le encanta cuando mi hermana y yo compramos zapatos nuevos. Recuerdo que cuando mi hermana compartía paso se compró unos zapatos marrones al estilo del Gato con Botas. Mi padre vino a casa entusiasmado con lo bonitos que eran. Cuando iba a la universidad compré un par de botas negras de plataforma. Mi padre estaba muy contento e hizo que se las enseñara a todos los demás cuando llegaron a casa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;New Shoes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;I have to show Dad these shoes. I saw them in a Vogue magazine and fell in love with them. They are from Ugg Australia so I knew they wouldn't be too expensive. I ordered them from the USA. They arrived on Thursday. They are beautiful. On Friday morning I painted my toenails and put on my beautiful new shoes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;I worked on a commission that I have had pending for a long time then had lunch with Aloma, every now and then looking down and admiring my feet in their new finery. I was worried I wouldn't be able to wear them to my afternoon class as it was raining and I didn't want them to get wet and dirty on their first day out. Luckily the sun came out and dried up all the rain. I could début them after all! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;In the back of my mind I had been wondering why I don't buy more shoes. I love them. I don't really like spending money on myself but every now and then I splash out - why not more on shoes I wondered. I came to the realization halfway to my class. The pain, the agonizing feeling of a shoe, slowly, with the force of your own movement, rubbing away at the top layer of your skin. Rubbing away so completely you are left with raw patches where your new shoe has decided to dominate your poor foot.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;As I limped into the class, the mother of my students asked what was wrong. "New shoes" I explained. "Ahhh", she nodded sympathetically. In the lift after class she told me she loved buying new clothes but shoes took more consideration. "I hate when I have to throw away my shoes, it is such an effort to break them in that it is always a pity when the time comes to part with them". She gave me some advice on how to stretch the fabric.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;My father also loves shoes but he will only buy a new pair when his old pair is no longer wearable. He is more controlled than I. But he loves when my sister and I buy new shoes. I remember when my sister was flatting she bought a pair of brown 'puss in boots' style boots. My father came home raving about how beautiful they were. When I was at uni I bought a pair of black, platform heeled boots. He was very happy for me and got me to show everyone when they came home that day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-3053144091880881360?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/3053144091880881360/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=3053144091880881360' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/3053144091880881360'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/3053144091880881360'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/05/for-dad.html' title='For Dad'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SDq9-GM9ByI/AAAAAAAAAKs/MGjdRp5wRDA/s72-c/poppies+and+shoes+027.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-8936326903963892634</id><published>2008-05-19T15:15:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2008-05-19T15:18:50.355+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Luz</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SDF94vSDH_I/AAAAAAAAAKk/1CioXxIflKc/s1600-h/stocking.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5202077458307948530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SDF94vSDH_I/AAAAAAAAAKk/1CioXxIflKc/s400/stocking.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ventana&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estaba en el baño y miré por casualidad hacia la ventana y vi que la luz brillaba como diamantes a través de las persianas de madera. Desde niña me han fascinado las luces y las sombras, pero especialmente todo lo que centellea. A veces la luz tiene una cualidad ultramundana, a veces es una fuerza que produce dolor, y otras veces hace que sientas que has recibido un regalo, porque has podido verla en un momento de belleza absoluta.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Window&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;I was in the bathroom and I happened to look at the window and notice the light was shining in like diamonds through the wooden binds. Ever since I was a child I have been fascinated by lights and shadows, but particularly by all that sparkles. Sometimes light has an otherworldly quality, sometimes it is a force that causes pain and sometimes it makes you feel that you have been given a gift by seeing it at a moment of absolute beauty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-8936326903963892634?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/8936326903963892634/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=8936326903963892634' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/8936326903963892634'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/8936326903963892634'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/05/luz.html' title='Luz'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SDF94vSDH_I/AAAAAAAAAKk/1CioXxIflKc/s72-c/stocking.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-6091342392807699920</id><published>2008-04-30T10:38:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-05-24T11:27:52.879+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Verano</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SBgwQtynlNI/AAAAAAAAAKc/gw-EKUS5d54/s1600-h/mallorca.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5194955233899812050" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SBgwQtynlNI/AAAAAAAAAKc/gw-EKUS5d54/s400/mallorca.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Días&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;El verano está a punto de empezar. Empiezo a sentirme como si fuera a comenzar la Navidad. En octubre de 2006 fui a Mallorca para pasar unas mini vacaciones. Mallorca es preciosa. Nos bajamos del avión en el segundo aeropuerto más grande de Europa un día soleado. Condujimos por Palma, tan impresionante. Nos quedamos en Andratx. Teníamos unas hermosas vistas del mar, un tiempo maravilloso, una compañía magnífica y espectaculares cantidades de alcohol.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Salíamos hasta tarde todas las noches y nos levantábamos tarde por la mañana. Cada mañana el mar estaba a nuestros pies, en la línea del horizonte se mezclaban el mar y el cielo aparecía y desaparecía algún barco que daba ese toque náutico y romántico a la escena. Una mañana tuvimos una visión madrugadora de unos pescadores que traían su botín a tierra. Eran las 5.30 de la madrugada y buscábamos otro bar mientras discutíamos los pros y los contra de tomar un barco prestado un rato. Peces pequeños aparecían en tierra en el muelle. Pensé brevemente en cogerlos y tener pescado fresco para desayunar pero no estaba preparada para sacrificar mi bolso. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Pasamos la última noche bebiendo infusiones de menta y sintiéndonos frágiles y tristes por el fin de las vacaciones. Vimos la información del tiempo, todas las noches habían dicho que llovería y habría nubes, todos los días habían sido soleados y despejados. Esa última noche la previsión dijo que haría sol. Nos reímos y dijimos que llovería al día siguiente. A la mañana siguiente el avión despegó desde una pista muy mojada hacia un cielo del color grisáceo del acero.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Days&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Summer is nearly here. I am beginning to feel Christmasssy&lt;span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="goog-spellcheck-word"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. In October 2006 I went to &lt;span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="goog-spellcheck-word"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Mallorca for a mini holiday. &lt;span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="goog-spellcheck-word"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="goog-spellcheck-word"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Mallorca&lt;span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="goog-spellcheck-word"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; is beautiful. We got off the plane in Europe's second busiest airport and into a beautiful sunny day. We drove through Palma, which is so big and impressive. We were staying in Antrax&lt;span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="goog-spellcheck-word"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. We had beautiful sea views, wonderful weather, great company and amazing amounts of alcohol. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;We went out late every night and woke up late every morning. Every morning the sea was at our feet, the horizon line blurring the sea into the sky and the odd boat appearing and disappearing to give a romantic nautical touch to the scene. Whilst still out one of the days, we had an early morning view of fishermen landing their haul. It was 5.30 and we were looking for another bar and discussing the pros and con of 'borrowing' a boat for a while. Little fish landed on the dock from the fisherman's labour landed on the dock, flapping around at our feet. I briefly thought about collecting them and having fresh fish for breakfast but I wasn't prepared to sacrifice my handbag.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;We spent the last night sipping mint teas feeling fragile (our liver and kidneys had been working over time) and sad for the end of the holiday. We watched the weather report, teas in hand. Each night it had reported rain and clouds, each day had been sunny and cloudless. That last night the forecast was for sun. We laughed and said it would rain the next day. The following morning the plane took off on a very wet runway into a steely grey sky.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-6091342392807699920?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/6091342392807699920/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=6091342392807699920' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/6091342392807699920'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/6091342392807699920'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/04/verano.html' title='Verano'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SBgwQtynlNI/AAAAAAAAAKc/gw-EKUS5d54/s72-c/mallorca.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-1020601339929965251</id><published>2008-04-18T11:52:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2008-04-18T12:15:54.738+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Exasperación</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SAhvr6k2wFI/AAAAAAAAAKU/qG0p6p3f5CI/s1600-h/periodicos+001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5190521370793394258" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SAhvr6k2wFI/AAAAAAAAAKU/qG0p6p3f5CI/s400/periodicos+001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Periódicos&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Tenemos problemas con nuestras lavadoras. Instalamos una cuando nos mudamos. Era una Edesa. Era ruidosa e inundaba la cocina: no siempre, ésa era la frustración, pero sí con frecuencia. Llamamos a los técnicos, era un rollo porque teníamos que estar en casa. Dijeron que a la máquina no le pasaba nada. Decían que era un problema de las tuberías.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me aconsejaron que echara vinagre caliente por el tubo que estaba conectado a la lavadora. Era complicado porque la tubería está debajo del fregadero y sólo puede accederse poniendo el brazo en un ángulo extraño, en semi oscuridad (si tienes una linterna). Estuve a punto de intoxicarme con el olor a vinagre y de dislocarme el cuello cuando intentaba desobstruir el tubo, que no estaba obstruido por ninguna parte.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Una vez me fui a trabajar cuando la lavadora estaba funcionando. Inundó la casa y el agua salió por la puerta del piso, el presidente de la comunidad le avisó a Daniel del problema. Ese día yo no era la persona más popular del mundo. El último técnico identificó el problema e instaló algo nuevo en el máquina. Dijo que si volvía a perder agua la podríamos cambiar. Yo estaba en éxtasis, sabía que volvería a hacerlo. Estaba desesperada con esa lavadora, la quería fuera de casa, afortunadamente volvió a perder agua.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ahora tenemos una Zanussi. Era perfecta. Al principio lavaba silenciosa y eficazmente, y, todavía más importante, sin perder agua. Hablaba con ella, la llamaba princesa y la acariciaba con afecto. Un día fatídico la empujé un poco para limpiar debajo de ella. Desde entonces pierde agua, inunda la cocina y tarda tres horas en hacer una lavada de una hora.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ahora estoy acostumbrada a poner periódicos para que absorban el agua. Esta lavadora pierde menos agua que su antecesora. La he sacado un poco hacia afuera, y he mirado los tubos que salen de ella. He intentado enderezarlos. He intentado razonar con la lavadora pero me parece que mi español aún no es lo bastante bueno. Los periódicos se mojan, se secan y vuelven a mojarse. Los tiro cuando me harto de sentirme como una mascota a la que aún no ha recibido su educación, pero nuestras ropas se lavan y los periódicos gozan de una segunda vida cuando las noticias que cuentan se quedan viejas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Newspapers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have had ongoing problems with our washing machines. We had a new one installed when we moved in. It was an Edesa. It was noisy and flooded the kitchen, not every time, that was the frustration, but frequently. We had repair men come, a pain because we had to arrange to be in. They said there was nothing wrong with the machine. They blamed it on our plumbing. I was advised to pour hot vinegar down the tube that the washing machine was connected to. This was tricky as the tube is located under the kitchen sink and you can only access it with your arm extended at an odd angle, in semi darkness - if you have a torch. I just about asphyxiated myself on vinegar fumes and dislocated my neck in the attempt to unblock the perfectly obstruction free tube. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once I left for work while the machine was washing a load. It flooded the house and seeped out the door, the president of the community alerted Daniel to the problem. I was not the most popular person in the world that day. The last repair man to come identified the problem and installed something new in the machine. He said if it leaked again we could replace it. I was ecstatic; I knew it would leak again. I was desperate with this washing machine, I wanted it out, thankfully it leaked again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We now have a Zanussi. It was perfect. At the start it washed quietly and efficiently and most importantly without leaking. I would talk to it, I called it princess and would pat it fondly. Then one fateful day I pushed it a little further into its space to clean. Since then it has leaked, flooded the kitchen and has taken three hours to do a one hour wash.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; I am now used to laying down newspapers to absorb the water. It leaks less than its predecessor. I have pulled it out and looked at the tubes coming out of it; I have tried to straighten them. I have even tried reasoning with the machine but I don't think my Spanish is good enough yet. The newspapers get wet then dry then wet again. I throw them away when I get sick of feeling like an untrained house pet, however our clothes get clean and the newspapers get a second life when the news they report is old.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-1020601339929965251?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/1020601339929965251/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=1020601339929965251' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/1020601339929965251'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/1020601339929965251'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/04/exasperacin.html' title='Exasperación'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SAhvr6k2wFI/AAAAAAAAAKU/qG0p6p3f5CI/s72-c/periodicos+001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-1742835147655610979</id><published>2008-04-17T15:26:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-10T19:43:27.313+02:00</updated><title type='text'>El Cubo</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SAdRQKk2wEI/AAAAAAAAAKM/RXTBl3LJloE/s1600-h/el+cubo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5190206433726480450" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SAdRQKk2wEI/AAAAAAAAAKM/RXTBl3LJloE/s400/el+cubo.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Modernismo&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He oído que a mucha gente no le gusta este edificio pero creo que es hermoso. Siempre me ha intrigado el mármol y sus líneas y sus colores. También me gusta que El Cubo esté entre La Seo y El Pilar. Me parece que alivia la presión de la historia que estos dos edificios cargan sin robar belleza a las catedrales.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hice esta fotografía la primera vez que estaba en Zaragoza. Me impresionó la audacia de una ciudad que se atrevía a levantar ese edificio entre la basílica y la catedral. Me gusta la yuxtaposición de El Cubo, estampa la plaza con modernidad aunque su función como museo es mostrar las viejas ruinas romanas que hay debajo. El Cubo enciende una luz en la historia bajo nuestros pies, del mismo modo que brilla en la oscuridad de Zaragoza.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Modernism&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have heard that a lot of people don't like this building but I think it is beautiful. I have always been intrigued by marble and its swirls and colours. I also like the fact that El Cubo is between La Seo and El Pilar. For me it breaks up the pressure of history that these two buildings carry without taking away from each cathedrals beauty. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I took this picture the first time I was in Saragossa. I was impressed at the daring of a city to construct such a building in between its two cathedrals. I like the juxtaposition of El Cubo, it stamps the square with modernity while its function as a museum is to show the old Roman ruins that are living underground. To shine a light on the history beneath our feet the way it, itself, glows in the Saragossa dark.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-1742835147655610979?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/1742835147655610979/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=1742835147655610979' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/1742835147655610979'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/1742835147655610979'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/04/el-cubo.html' title='El Cubo'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SAdRQKk2wEI/AAAAAAAAAKM/RXTBl3LJloE/s72-c/el+cubo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-4496303231418456193</id><published>2008-04-10T14:58:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-04-10T15:12:41.098+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Recuerdo</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R_4Q1qq8xnI/AAAAAAAAAKE/Cjhw3tHqHq0/s1600-h/stocking+005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187602334950934130" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R_4Q1qq8xnI/AAAAAAAAAKE/Cjhw3tHqHq0/s400/stocking+005.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; Dolor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Un viernes recientemente por la noche estaba corriendo para coger el autobús de vuelta a Zaragoza. Corría para llegar a un bus que todavía no había llegado pero vi a la gente esperando y quería ser una de ellos. Había un poco de luz en el cielo y me gustaba sentir el viento en mi pelo mientras corría.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Acababa de terminar una clase con mis estudiantes preferidos. Había terminado antes de lo que había previsto y tenía muchas ganas para llegar a casa y ver a Dan, que había vuelto de Madrid y estaría en casa cuando yo llegase.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Así que estábamos yo y delante de mí el camino que me llevaría a casa. De repente el sol se fue hacia mi parte del mundo. Me caí: me pelé la rodilla; afortunadamente mis manos, que se habían extendido automáticamente para detener mi caída, se libraron de las heridas; me escocían y dolían pero no me había hecho nada más.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Estaba en el suelo jadeando de dolor. Llevaba unas medias que protegían la herida, pero la caída las había roto. Me asomaron lágrimas a los ojos mientras estaba sentada sola, esperando que el dolor se aflojara. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Recordaba ese dolor, como todo el que ha sido niño, pero lo que me sorprendió fue mi reacción. Volvía a tener siete años, con una rodilla pelada en el suelo: era una sensación agradable. a veces creo que necesitamos cosas que nos recuerden cómo era ser niño, ver el mundo con diferentes preocupaciones. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Uno de mis alumnos acababa de enseñarme una herida similar a la que yo acababa de obtener. La suya se estaba curando en una costra. Yo había asentido fingiendo interés y había intentado parecer tan impresionada como era necesario, pero sin entender la importancia de lo que me estaba contando. Ahora sentía que estaba en sus zapatos. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Cuando pude crucé cojeando la carretera hasta la parada del autobús, que estaba vacía. Paré el primer taxi que pasó. Puede que el conductor notara algo en mi forma de andar, o puede que fuera se mostrase solícito por mi altura, el caso es que movió el asiento del copiloto hacia delante para que pudiera estirar las piernas, mientras yo miraba hacia atrás.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pain&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One recent Friday night I was running to catch the bus back into Saragossa. I was running for a bus that had not yet arrived but I saw people waiting and I wanted to be one of them. There was a little light in the sky and I was enjoying feeling the wind in my hair as I ran.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;I had just finished a class with my favourite students. I had finished earlier than I thought I would and I really wanted to get home to see Dan who had returned from Madrid and would be at home when I got there.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;So it was me and the footpath in front of me that would get me home. Suddenly the sun left for my part of the world. I tripped – I grazed my knee, luckily my hands that automatically stretched out to break my fall escaped being wounded, stinging and singing in pain but nothing more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;There I was on the ground gasping in pain. I was wearing stockings which protected the wound but were ruined in the fall. Tears sprung to my eyes as I sat there alone waiting for the pain to subside.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;I remembered this pain, everyone who has been a child would but what surprised me was my reaction. There I was seven years old again, with a grazed knee on the ground, in a way it was a nice sensation, sometimes I think we need reminders of what it was like to be little, to see the world with different concerns.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;One of my students had just shown me a wound similar to the one I had just obtained that was healing into a scab. I had nodded interestedly and looked appropriately impressed at the sight, but without really understanding the importance of what he was telling me. Now I felt I occupied his shoes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;When I could I limped across the road to the bus stop, which was now empty. I hailed the first taxi to appear. Perhaps the driver noted something in my walk or perhaps he was very solicitous about my height, whatever it was, so that I had room to stretch out my legs he moved the passenger seat forward, while I was looking backwards.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-4496303231418456193?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/4496303231418456193/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=4496303231418456193' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/4496303231418456193'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/4496303231418456193'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/04/recuerdo.html' title='Recuerdo'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R_4Q1qq8xnI/AAAAAAAAAKE/Cjhw3tHqHq0/s72-c/stocking+005.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-3859336907386806811</id><published>2008-04-08T15:06:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2008-04-08T15:12:53.700+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Circulos</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R_tunROg5ZI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/3rhUvLkjofI/s1600-h/Pods+and+wine+glasses+003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186861016765490578" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R_tunROg5ZI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/3rhUvLkjofI/s400/Pods+and+wine+glasses+003.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vasos&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Creo que estoy obsesionada con los círculos. Me gusta su forma. Me gusta pi. También me gusta el vino tinto. Bebemos vino de estos vasos, normalmente cuando cenamos y vemos un DVD. En esta foto se ven nuestros dos vasos en el fregadero a la mañana siguiente. Me gusta la forma en que se ha separado el vino y ha tomado un tono más suave que tiñe los vasos. También me gusta el aspecto cotidiano de los platos en el fregadero, esperando que los laven.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Glasses&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think I am obsessed with circles. I like their form. I like pi. I also like red wine. We drink our wine out of these little glasses, normally when we have dinner and watch a DVD. This photo is of our two glasses in the sink the next morning. I like the way the wine has seperated and has taken on a softer tone that tints the glasses. I also like the everydayness of dishes in the sink, waiting to be washed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-3859336907386806811?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/3859336907386806811/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=3859336907386806811' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/3859336907386806811'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/3859336907386806811'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/04/circulos.html' title='Circulos'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R_tunROg5ZI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/3rhUvLkjofI/s72-c/Pods+and+wine+glasses+003.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-318071993170587280</id><published>2008-03-23T16:32:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-03-23T16:38:48.532+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Padres</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R-Z4khOg5YI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/qDT3ArYXUNQ/s1600-h/blood+bark+milkbottles+005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5180960990126204290" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R-Z4khOg5YI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/qDT3ArYXUNQ/s400/blood+bark+milkbottles+005.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Sangre&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Esta gota de sangre es de un accidente que tuve cuando hacía joyas. Era poco importante, en realidad la única molestia era el lío que provocó. Cuando trabajas con herramientas de joyería es inevitable derramar sangre de vez en cuando.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Me voy a mudar a Madrid, tengo que buscar un apartamento. Queremos algo más o menos en el centro, con dos dormitorios. Me pone nerviosa pensar en alquilar un apartamento en Madrid. Me siento muy extranjera, muy fuera de mi liga y muy adulta de repente: la pequeña y vieja yo de Papatoetoe tiene que buscar un sitio para vivir en una capital extranjera. Llamé a mis padres para ver cómo estaban y contarles lo que me preocupaba. Buscaba un poco de apoyo y consejo parental.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Cuando colgué el teléfono, me sentía más segura, me parecía que estaba lista para el nuevo reto. El consejo que me dieron mis padres: "Hazte más dura". Traducido del neozelandés esto significa: "eres lo bastante fuerte como para hacer eso, sólo tienes que darte cuenta de que lo eres, dejar de preocuparte y hacer lo que debes".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Mi sangre es del tipo O negativo como la de mi padre pero también es artística como la de mi madre. Esta gota de sangre es un reflejo de la suya. Los dos son personas fuertes. Sé que con la sangre que fluye por mis venas y ocasionalmente termina en mi mesa de trabajo acabaré encontrando un buen apartamento en Madrid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Blood&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;This drop of blood is from an accident I had while working on my jewellery. It was minor, really only annoying because of the mess. Working with jewellery tools it is inevitable that from time to time you spill your blood. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;I am moving to Madrid, I have to look for an appartment. What we want is something central with two bedrooms. I am nervous about renting an appartment in Madrid. I feel very foreign, very out of my league, suddenly very adult, little old me from Papatoetoe having to look for a place to live in a foreign Capital city. I phoned my parents to catch up and to tell them what was on my mind. I was after some parental support and advice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I hung up the phone, I felt reasured, I felt ready for this new challenge. The advice my parents gave me: "Thoughen up". Translated from New Zealandish this means: "you are strong enough to do that, you just have to realize that you are and stop worrying and get the job done". &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My blood is O negative like my fathers but it is also artistic like my mothers. This drop of blood is a refection of them. They are both strong people. I know that with the blood that flows through my veins and occasionally ends up on my work bench will end up finding a good appartment in Madrid.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-318071993170587280?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/318071993170587280/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=318071993170587280' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/318071993170587280'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/318071993170587280'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/03/padres.html' title='Padres'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R-Z4khOg5YI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/qDT3ArYXUNQ/s72-c/blood+bark+milkbottles+005.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-4540169557957870404</id><published>2008-03-16T13:41:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-03-16T14:02:19.422+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Clases</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R90VyUp8QGI/AAAAAAAAAJs/_UdPHdbyonk/s1600-h/ink+and+tissues+009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R90VyUp8QGI/AAAAAAAAAJs/_UdPHdbyonk/s400/ink+and+tissues+009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178319100828205154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pintura&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Los viernes tengo una clase de pintura. Me gustan esas clases, me siento como una aristócrata victoriana. &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;No me siento muy segura con los pinceles. De hecho, si no estoy pintando una pared me asustan. Mi profesora es fantástica y me anima mucho aunque los resultados distan mucho de ser espectaculares. Creo que estos restos de gotas de pintura son lo mejor que hice con en la última lección. Seguiré trabajando, y espero llegar a estar contenta con parte de la pintura que ponga sobre el papel.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;Paint &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Every Friday I have a painting class. I like them, I feel like a member of the Victorian upper class. I am not very confident with a paintbrush. In fact, if I am not painting walls they scare me. My teacher is fantastic and very encouraging even though the results are less than spectacular. I think these left over drops of paint are the best thing I did with paint this past lesson. I will persevere and hopefully I will be happy with some of the paint I put on paper.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-4540169557957870404?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/4540169557957870404/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=4540169557957870404' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/4540169557957870404'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/4540169557957870404'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/03/clases.html' title='Clases'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R90VyUp8QGI/AAAAAAAAAJs/_UdPHdbyonk/s72-c/ink+and+tissues+009.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-402219576068197738</id><published>2008-03-08T13:27:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-03-08T14:42:30.666+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Kleenex</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R9KGqkp8QFI/AAAAAAAAAJk/92oDG5PPN94/s1600-h/ink+and+tissues+016.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175346987754340434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R9KGqkp8QFI/AAAAAAAAAJk/92oDG5PPN94/s400/ink+and+tissues+016.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Nubes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;He pasado la semana enferma. Tenía ataques de tos y litros de mocos. Lo peor de todo es que tenía la cabeza confusa, no poder pensar con claridad es terrible. Hoy me siento casi normal. Anoche pensé en la cantidad de basura que genera un resfriado mientras limpiaba todos los pañuelos de papel de mi casa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esto es aproximadamente una octava parte de los pañuelos de papel que he usado esta semana. Tenía la lujosa posibilidad de sonarme la nariz cada vez que quería en un pañuelo limpio. Imagina lo que tenía que usar la gente en el pasado, o en los países sin pañuelos de papel. Al mirar mi pila me siento muy afortunada por vivir en el mundo que vivo pero también me pregunto lo que este privilegio está haciendo al mundo. Los pañuelos necesitan árboles, productos químicos y envases de plástico duraderos. Tanto trabajo para un elemento tan trivial. Es demasiado gasto para un placer tan ridículo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clouds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have spent this past week unwell. I have had coughing fits and cubic litres of mucus. Worst of all I have had a fuzzy head, not being able to think straight is terrible. Today I am feeling nearly normal. It occurred to me last night the amount of waste a cold generates as I was cleaning up all the tissues deposited around the place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is about one eighth of the tissues I have used this past week. I have had the luxury of blowing my nose whenever I wanted on a clean tissue. Imagine what the people in the past had to use and those in countries without tissues. Looking at my pile I feel very lucky to live in the world I live in but I also wonder what such privilege is doing to the world. Tissues need trees, then chemicals and lastly plastic packaging. So much work for such and innocuous item. This is too much waste for such a ridiculous pleasure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-402219576068197738?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/402219576068197738/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=402219576068197738' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/402219576068197738'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/402219576068197738'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/03/kleenex.html' title='Kleenex'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R9KGqkp8QFI/AAAAAAAAAJk/92oDG5PPN94/s72-c/ink+and+tissues+016.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-1636430372005792155</id><published>2008-02-29T12:09:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-02-29T14:26:15.996+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Rizos</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R8f0I9iUW6I/AAAAAAAAAJc/IpeV9YGNxuE/s1600-h/curly+hair+015.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5172371131852938146" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R8f0I9iUW6I/AAAAAAAAAJc/IpeV9YGNxuE/s400/curly+hair+015.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Malos momentos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Hace más o menos un mes la madre de uno de mis alumnos me preguntó si quería que me rizara el pelo gratis. Está estudiando peluquería. Yo llevaba el pelo muy corto y le dije que si me lo rizaba quedaría un poco raro. Ella dijo que quedaría bien, fue insistente. Así que concerté la cita, a regañadientes. Era el viernes pasado. Estuve a punto a de cancelar. Fue uno de esos momentos que lamentas haber desaprovechado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Llegué al sitio a las 9 de la mañana, y resultó que por fortuna tenía mucha resaca. Pensé que la madre iba a rizarme el pelo, pensé que era un favor para ayudarla a aprender. Pero no fue así. Me dejó en manos de una chica de 17 años que tenía mal aliento y una actitud todavía peor. La jefa le dijo que rizase mi pelo enrollando el pelo hacia atrás en los rulos en vez de hacerlo hacia delante. Por alguna insondable razón esto le resultaba extremadamente difícil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tuve que aguantar sus quejas y su mal aliento durante dos horas de tortura mientras estiraba y rascaba y prácticamente intentaba arrancarme la cabeza. La resaca me entumecía lo suficiente como para soportar el ataque a mi cabeza, mis orejas y mi nariz. Una campana sonó en alguna parte y todas las otras peluqueras recogieron sus cosas y me quedé sola con la reina del drama adolescente. Me mandó que fuera al lavabo donde lanzó chorros de productos químicos al azar sobre mi pelo, que después frotó con aspereza. Gracias a la naturaleza imprecisa de la aplicación mis orejas y mi cara también recibieron un baño químico.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Después me dejó en el lavabo treinta minutos, durante los que escuché las quejas de una peluquera hambrienta y maltratada por la vida que había tenido que aprender a hacer rizos al revés y que había perdido quince minutos de su descanso matinal. Después lavó los productos químicos de mi pelo, me quitó los rulos, puso otro producto químico y me trasladó a otra habitación, en la que me quedé treinta minutos sola y preguntándome qué estaba pasando.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Llegó un grupo de estudiantes de peluquería. Todas me miraban como si yo fuera un espécimen en el zoo. Caminaban con aire ocupado, preparaban sus cinturones cargados de herramientas, reivindicaban cuál era su espejo. Sus víctimas llegaron lentamente. Una chica vino y empezó a limpiar el segundo lote de productos químicos de mi cabeza. La hora de la verdad había llegado cuando me sentó frente a un espejo y empezó a secarme el pelo, dirigiendo el secador a todas partes menos a mi cabeza. Finalmente conseguí ver los resultados de los rulos y los productos químicos y los minutos y no estaba contenta. Quería estar en cualquier lugar menos frente a ese espejo. Quería escapar. Le pedí que parase. Estaba a punto de ponerme de pie cuando llegó la madre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Oh, qué cambio.” Sonrió. Me atusó el pelo. “Sabes que te vendría bien un corte.” Le dije que no tenía tiempo; hacía media hora que tendría que haber llegado a clase. Intentó insistir en que me quedase. Ni de coña me iba a quedar después de ver mi reflejo en el espejo. Me fui, no antes de que me preguntase qué pensaba. Mi respuesta fue: “Parezco una oveja”. Cogí el autobús y fui directamente a ver a mi peluquera. Cuando me quité la gorra se quedó boquiabierta. Alisó temporalmente el pelo y me dijo que volviera en una semana; mi pobre pelo necesitaba un descanso. Hoy hemos decidido cortarlo, ha tenido que cortarme casi todo el pelo. Afortunadamente es pelo, y va a crecer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Bad moments&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;About a month ago the mother of one of my students asked me if I wanted to have my hair curled for free. She is training to be a hairdresser. I had very short hair and told her that it would look a bit funny if it was curled. She said it would look nice and was insistent. So I made the appointment, with trepidation. That was last Friday. I nearly called to cancel - moments you wish you had taken advantage of.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I arrived at the place at 9am, as it turned out, luckily very hung over. I thought the mother was going to be curling my hair, I thought it was a favour to help her learn. It turns out it wasn’t. I was left in the hands of a 17 year old with bad breath and a worse attitude. She was told by the head of the salon to curl my hair rolling the hair backwards in the curlers instead of forwards. For some unfathomable reason this was extremely difficult for her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had to endure her complaints and bad breath for two torturous hours as she pulled and scratched and just about yanked my head off. My hangover numbed me just about sufficiently to withstand the attack on my head, my ears and my nose. A bell sounded somewhere and all the other hairdressers packed up, I was left alone with the teenage drama queen. I was ordered to the basin where I had the permanent chemicals squirted haphazardly on my hair and rubbed in roughly. Due to the imprecise nature of the application my ears and face also got a chemical bath.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was then left at the sink for 30 minutes listening to the complaints of a hungry, hard done by trainee hairdresser who had had to learn how to do curls backwards and who had lost 15 minutes of her morning tea break. Then the chemical was washed out of my hair, the curlers taken out, another chemical put on and I was moved to another room and left alone for 30 minutes wondering what was going on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A bunch of trainee hair cutters arrived. They all looked at me like I was a specimen in the zoo. They bustled around preparing their tool belts and claiming their mirrors. Slowly their victims filed in. A girl arrived and started washing out the second lot of chemicals from my hair. The moment of truth had arrived as she sat me down at a mirror and started blow drying my hair, directing the blow-dryer everywhere but my head. I finally got to see the results of the curlers and the chemicals and the minutes and I was not happy. I wanted to be anywhere but in front of a mirror. I wanted to escape. I asked her to stop. Then just as I was about to stand up the mother arrived.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Ohhh, what a change”. She smiled. She fluffed my hair. “You know you could do with a cut”. I said I didn’t have time; I had to be at a class half an hour earlier. She tried to insist that I stay. No fucking way was I going to stay after seeing my reflection in the mirror. I left, not before she asked me what I thought, “I look like a sheep” was my response. I caught the bus and went straight to my hairdresser. When I removed my hat she gasped in shock. She straightened it temporarily and told me to come back in a week; my poor hair needed a rest. Today we decided to cut it, she had to cut practically all my hair off. Luckily it is hair, it will grow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-1636430372005792155?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/1636430372005792155/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=1636430372005792155' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/1636430372005792155'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/1636430372005792155'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/02/rizos.html' title='Rizos'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R8f0I9iUW6I/AAAAAAAAAJc/IpeV9YGNxuE/s72-c/curly+hair+015.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-7715054334367461702</id><published>2008-02-23T14:49:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2008-03-08T14:43:18.086+01:00</updated><title type='text'>La Leche</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R8Ak53GR6jI/AAAAAAAAAJU/IJeZLNp0shE/s1600-h/blood+bark+milkbottles+030.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170172948682762802" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R8Ak53GR6jI/AAAAAAAAAJU/IJeZLNp0shE/s400/blood+bark+milkbottles+030.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Chuches&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;El otro día le decía a una amiga lo mucho que odio la leche UHT que se vende en Europa. Tengo que decir que, en mi experiencia como bebedora de leche, la leche de Nueva Zelanda es la mejor. Tengo amigos que no son de Nueva Zelanda y han tenido el placer de probar la leche neozelandesa y están de acuerdo conmigo. Creo que la razón es que nuestras vacas sólo se alimentan de hierba durante todo el año y tienen mucho espacio para pastar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En Nueva Zelanda sólo compramos leche uperisada si vamos de acampada e incluso entonces, la posibilidad de tomar café sin leche o tomar los cereales con agua resulta más atractiva que abrir esa pequeña caja de cartón de olor extraño y sabor horrible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lo primero que hice cuando volví a Nueva Zelanda después de pasar casi un año en Europa fue tomar un vaso de leche. Hoy ha llegado un paquete que había mandado mi hermana, que vive en Londres. Estas son chuches que comíamos cuando éramos niñas. Me había olvidado de ellas. De que existían. Hoy, de una forma un tanto diluida, he podido tomar un poco de leche neozelandesa. Un poco más masticable de lo normal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lollies&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other day I was telling a friend about how much I hate the UHT milk that is sold in Europe. I have to say that in my milk drinking experience, NZ milk is the best. I also have non NZ friends who have had the pleasure of sampling NZ milk who agree with me. I think it is because our cows are grass feed all year round and have a lot of space to graze. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In NZ we only buy long life milk if we go camping and even then given the option of going without milk in your coffee and having cereal with water is more appealing than opening that little cardboard brick with the strange odour and horrible taste.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first thing I did when I went back to NZ after nearly a year in Europe was pour myself a glass of milk. Today a package arrived from my sister who is now living in London. These are lollies that we used to eat as children. I had forgotten all about them. Their very existence. Today in a diluted way I got to have some NZ milk. A little chewier than normal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-7715054334367461702?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/7715054334367461702/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=7715054334367461702' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/7715054334367461702'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/7715054334367461702'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/02/la-leche.html' title='La Leche'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R8Ak53GR6jI/AAAAAAAAAJU/IJeZLNp0shE/s72-c/blood+bark+milkbottles+030.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-8944192945148401196</id><published>2008-02-09T12:22:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-02-09T13:05:38.451+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Rosa</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R62NunGR6iI/AAAAAAAAAJM/0-qUUtdeqhw/s1600-h/finger+of+gold2+011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5164940179572648482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R62NunGR6iI/AAAAAAAAAJM/0-qUUtdeqhw/s400/finger+of+gold2+011.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; Bragas&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sé que esta foto parece un poco pornográfica. Quizás lo sea, pero la hice por las bragas que llevaba. Soy una persona un poco rara en lo que respecta a mi ropa interior. Desde pequeña tengo recuerdos nítidos sobre mi ropa interior. Dónde y cuándo la comprábamos. Cuando la lavábamos, la ropa interior se mezclaba. Si no la doblaba yo, tenía que abrir los cajones de mi madre y mi hermana para buscar mi ropa y colocar la suya.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Una amiga mía compró estas bragas en Francia. Yo iba a Italia al día siguiente y no había lavado la ropa y no tenía tiempo para ir de compras. Ella iba a ir a Cora, un gran supermercado que vendía de todo, desde CD a macetas. Mi amiga esta nerviosa a causa de la tarea que le había caído encima, y he de admitir que yo también estaba un poco preocupada por el resultado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me compró un pack de tres bragas rosas. Solo me quedan dos: una de ellas no era tan fuerte como sus compañeras. Recuerdo que cuando vi estas bragas pensé: “Dios mío, qué cutres”. Mi amiga leyó la expresión de mi cara y se disculpó diciendo que aunque tenían manchas de leopardo de color rosa eran la opción más elegante de las que había disponibles, y que, cuando se había dado cuenta de eso, había estado a punto de abandonar su misión. Nos reímos hablando de lo que pensarían los italianos si yo tenía un accidente y me tenían que llevar en ambulancia con mis bragas nuevas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me gustan los recuerdos y las historias que aportan unas cosas tan básicas. Me gusta pensar en los momentos graciosos que compartí con mi amiga y en el viaje a Italia en el que estrené estas bragas. También me gusta que objetos aparentemente mundanos tengan una historia tan rica como otros objetos más apreciados, como carteras y plumas...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Undies&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know this photo may seem a little pornographic. Perhaps it is, but I took it for the undies I was wearing. I am a slightly strange person in regards to my underwear. Ever since I was a child I had strong memories about my underwear. Where they were bought and when. When we would do washes, the underwear would get all mixed together. If it wasn’t me who did the folding, I would have to go into my mother’s and sister’s drawers to retrieve my underwear and return theirs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These undies were bought in France by a close friend of mine. I was going to Italy the next day and hadn’t done any washing and didn’t have time to go shopping. She was going to Cora, a big supermarket that sold just about everything, from CD´s to Pot plants. She was nervous with the task given her and I must admit, I was mildly concerned about the result.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She bought me back a three pack of pink underwear. I only have two left, the third pair wasn’t as strong as its companions. I remember seeing this pair and thinking, ‘Oh my god, how tacky’. My friend read my face and apologised saying that although they were pink leopard print they were the most elegant choice available and on seeing that, she nearly abandoned the mission. We laughed about what the Italians would think if I had an accident and needed to be taken away in an ambulance with my new undies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I like the memories and histories that such basic items provide. I like to think of the funny moments I shared with my friend and of the trip to Italy where I debuted this pair of underwear. I also like that seemingly mundane items have as rich a history as other more esteemed items, such as wallets and pens etc...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-8944192945148401196?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/8944192945148401196/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=8944192945148401196' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/8944192945148401196'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/8944192945148401196'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/02/rosa.html' title='Rosa'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R62NunGR6iI/AAAAAAAAAJM/0-qUUtdeqhw/s72-c/finger+of+gold2+011.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-4620132998614800930</id><published>2008-02-03T12:25:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-03-23T13:16:12.244+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Manchas</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R6YC87LyR_I/AAAAAAAAAJE/delwQsyzAXY/s1600-h/finger+of+gold2+020.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R6YC87LyR_I/AAAAAAAAAJE/delwQsyzAXY/s400/finger+of+gold2+020.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5162817268529383410" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dedos&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si miras con atención mi dedo índice verás tres manchas grises. Cuando terminé la Universidad encontré un trabajo de joyera. No era tan romántico como había imaginado al principio. Algunos días tenía que hacer más de 500 brazaletes. Era agotador y a menudo aburrido. Estas manchas son de accidentes de trabajo que tuve allí.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Afortunadamente mis compañeros eran geniales y nos divertíamos. Pero el trabajo era repetitivo y nada estimulante. Una de las cosas que tenía que hacer era cortar grandes espirales de alambre para hacer brazaletes de oro. Así es como me corté el dedo: muchas veces al cortar el último brazalete, se perdía la resistencia y la sierra se movía hacia delante. Si estabas cansada y no prestabas atención podías hacerte daño.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Las manchas son grises porque están llenas de polvo de oro, las heridas se cerraron con el oro dentro. Ahora cuando me corto limpio la herida con mucho cuidado para evitar ese tipo de manchas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fingers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you look closely at my index finger you will notice three grey spots. When I left Uni I got a job working in my field of jewellery. It wasn’t as romantic as I had first imagined. Depending on the day I would make over 500 bangles. It was tiring and often boring. These spots are from work accidents I had.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Luckily my workmates were great and we had fun. But the work was repetitive and unstimulating. One of the things I had to do was cut huge coils of gold bangle wire. This is how I would cut my finger, when you cut through the last bangle often the release of pressure would make the saw blade spring forward more easily. If you were tired and weren’t paying attention this was when you could hurt yourself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The spots are grey because they are full of gold powder, the wounds healed over with the gold inside them. Now when I cut myself I am very careful the clean the wound to avoid such stains.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-4620132998614800930?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/4620132998614800930/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=4620132998614800930' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/4620132998614800930'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/4620132998614800930'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/02/manchas.html' title='Manchas'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R6YC87LyR_I/AAAAAAAAAJE/delwQsyzAXY/s72-c/finger+of+gold2+020.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-5620015414542057800</id><published>2008-01-29T12:16:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-29T18:15:54.121+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Luces para pensamientos sombríos</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R58LmrLyR8I/AAAAAAAAAIs/4Qq0tbEzhzI/s1600-h/thumb+and+lights+009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5160856457044969410" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R58LmrLyR8I/AAAAAAAAAIs/4Qq0tbEzhzI/s400/thumb+and+lights+009.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Luces de hadas&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La otra noche fui a un barrio rural al otro lado de Zaragoza. De camino tenía la sensación de que si cerraba los ojos estaría en casa en Nueva Zelanda. Había pasado una semana difícil, con bajos muy bajos y altos muy altos. Creo que en parte porque me cariño de mi casa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En el coche también podía ver las luces de Zaragoza, me recordaban a las luces de Auckland, cuando volvemos después de cenar en casa de mi abuela. El viaje fue agridulce, iba con personas a las que quiero pero me acordaba de que estoy muy lejos de otros seres queridos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fairy Lights&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other night I went to a little village on the other side of Saragossa. On the way there I had the sensation that if I closed my eyes just enough I was home in New Zealand. I had had a difficult week – with low lows and high highs. In part I think because I am home sick.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the car I could also see the lights of Saragossa, it reminded me of the lights of Auckland, driving home from a dinner at my grandmas. The trip was bittersweet, I was with loved ones but was reminded that I was so far from other loved ones.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-5620015414542057800?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/5620015414542057800/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=5620015414542057800' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/5620015414542057800'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/5620015414542057800'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/01/luces-para-pensamientos-sombros.html' title='Luces para pensamientos sombríos'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R58LmrLyR8I/AAAAAAAAAIs/4Qq0tbEzhzI/s72-c/thumb+and+lights+009.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-4306451839823479725</id><published>2008-01-19T21:53:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-19T22:02:08.369+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Albarracín</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R5JkAUVlELI/AAAAAAAAAIk/hHzmM10cyuk/s1600-h/smallest+hand+dryer+003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5157294479914635442" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R5JkAUVlELI/AAAAAAAAAIk/hHzmM10cyuk/s400/smallest+hand+dryer+003.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Manos limpias&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La primera vez que estuve en España pasé una semana en Albarracín. Un día comimos en un restaurante que tenía el que posiblemente sea el secador de manos más pequeño del mundo. Me impresionó tanto que hice esta foto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clean hands&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first time I was in Spain I spent a week in Albarracín. One day we had lunch at a place that had what could possibly be the world’s smallest hand dryer. I was so impressed I took this photo.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-4306451839823479725?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/4306451839823479725/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=4306451839823479725' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/4306451839823479725'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/4306451839823479725'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/01/albarracn.html' title='Albarracín'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R5JkAUVlELI/AAAAAAAAAIk/hHzmM10cyuk/s72-c/smallest+hand+dryer+003.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-1303770541234674369</id><published>2008-01-02T21:16:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-03-08T23:41:51.262+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Champán</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R3vxYUVlEGI/AAAAAAAAAIA/Dr-lOuKsjQQ/s1600-h/NY%27s+Champagne.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5150975998906667106" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R3vxYUVlEGI/AAAAAAAAAIA/Dr-lOuKsjQQ/s400/NY%27s+Champagne.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Pequeñas Aventuras&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Nochevieja de 2004 en París. Ésta es la cantidad de champán que compramos para cuatro personas. Dos de nosotras consumimos la mayor parte, esperando a que el resto de nuestro grupo acabara de &lt;i&gt;glamourizarse&lt;/i&gt;. Una de nosotras se quedó inconsciente en la cama antes de salir de la habitación del hotel. La desperté en el metro. Todas nos bajamos en la parada del metro del Arco del Triunfo, cuando empezaba la cuenta atrás: tuvimos que echar a correr al salir del túnel. Después nos separamos. Meghan y yo (las dos borrachas) paseamos por los Campos Eíseos. Robamos una bóveda de la tienda de Luis Vuitton que estaban construyendo. No sé cómo acabamos en la puerta del Hotel George V, uno de los más pijos de París.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Allí estábamos en Nochevieja, dos extranjeras algo desaliñadas con bastante alcohol en el cuerpo como para no sentir mucho frío. Estábamos hablando de la sociedad y de sus injusticias (es decir, de que nosotras fuéramos pobres) y envidiando los zapatos y los abrigos de las mujeres que entraban al hotel. Por tercera vez esa noche alguien se nos acercó y nos preguntó si hablábamos inglés. &lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Iba bien vestido pero parecía tímido.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Las dos rezongamos por dentro. ¿Tenemos un seño en la frente que dice “Hablamos inglés”?, pensamos a la vez, y nos lo dijimos con la mirada. El tipo era australiano y necesitaba direcciones para ir a una fiesta. Como no teníamos que hacer fuimos andando con él: Meghan conocía el sitio.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;En realidad, no lo conocía. Hablamos con algunos parisinos y nos prestaron su teléfono móvil: el de nuestro amigo australiano no funcionaba y el mío no tenía salto. La calle que necesitábamos estaba en las afueras de París. Teníamos que coger un taxi. Meghan y yo estábamos sucias por haber escalado las vallas de los Campos Elíseos. La fiesta a la que íbamos estaba organizada por una cadena de televisión australiana dedicada a la moda. Nicole Kidman iba a asistir. El viaje en taxi duró muchísimo y especulamos tranquilamente con la posibilidad de que el conductor fuera a matarnos.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Llegamos a una zona industrial bastante sórdida, el australiano tenía su nombre en la lista pero insistió en pagar los 30 euros de nuestra entrada. Fuimos dentro y buscamos a sus amigos, dimos un par de vueltas y nos sentamos en la zona VIP. El australiano nos compró una botella de champán por 120 euros. Nos sentamos a charlar. Parecía que Meghan y el australiano se llevaban bien. Yo estaba encantada, significaba que podía relajarme y mantenerme en mi estado mareado, distraído y borracho, sin tener que preocuparme por dar conversación.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Había una escalera para los Über VIPS, miré pero no vi ni rastro de Nicole, dudo que acudiera a esa fiesta. Cuando el champán se acabó fuimos a la sala de baile, porque estábamos en París, porque era Nochevieja, porque queríamos que nuestro nuevo amigo estuviera contento y porque estábamos lo bastante borrachas como para aguantar esa música horrible.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;Él no encontró a sus amigos, así que nos fuimos después de un rato. A Meghan le daba vergüenza nuestro hotel barato, así que nos bajamos del taxi en algún lugar de París a las 6:30 de la mañana. Volvimos hacia el hotel, con los oídos sonando y conmigo muerta de hambre. Al día siguiente perdimos el tren por cinco minutos y tuvimos que sentarnos en el Starbucks de Saint-Lazare durante tres horas gélidas, aprovechando al máximo nuestra consumición de un café.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: arial"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;Little Adventures&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;New Years Eve in Paris 2004/2005. This is the amount of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;?xml:namespace prefix = st1 /&gt;&lt;st1:state&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Champagne&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:state&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; that we bought for four people. Two of us consumed most of it, waiting for the rest of our party to finish glamorizing. One of us passed out on the bed before leaving the hotel room. I woke her up on the metro. We all got off at the Arc de&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;Triomphe metro stop, as the countdown was beginning; we had to sprint out of the tunnel. Then we got separated. Meghan and I (the two drunks) wandered down the Champs-Elysées. We stole a dome off the Louis Vuitton shop which was being constructed. Somehow we ended up outside the Hôtel George V, one of the most posh Hotels in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Paris&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;There we were on New Years Eve, two, slightly dishevelled looking foreigners with just enough booze inside not to feel too cold. We were discussing society and its injustices (our being poor) and envying the shoes and the coats the women entering the hotel were wearing. For the third time that night someone approached us and asked us if we spoke English. He was well dressed but timid looking. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;We both inwardly groaned, do we have a stamp on our foreheads that says, ‘English speakers’ we simultaneously thought and communicated with a glance. He was Australian and needed directions to a party. Having nothing to do we went walking with him as Meghan knew the address.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;She didn’t. We spoke to some Parisians and borrowed their Mobile phone as our Australian friend’s wasn’t working and mine had no credit. The street we needed was on the fringe of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Paris&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;. We had to take a taxi. Meghan and I were dirty from climbing over the barriers to the Champs-Elysées. The party we were going to was being hosted by Australian fashion T.V. Nicole Kidman was going to be there. The Taxi ride took forever and we were quietly speculating that the taxi driver was going to kill us.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;We got to a seedy looking industrial zone, the Australian had his name on the list but insisted on paying the 30€ cover charge for us. We went inside and looked for his friends, we did a couple of rounds then sat in the VIP area. The Australian bought us a bottle of 120€ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:state&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Champagne&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:state&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;. We sat chatting; Meghan and the guy seemed to be hitting it off. I was glad, it meant I could relax into my fuzzy, day dreamy, drunk mode and not have to worry about carrying on a conversation.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;There was a level upstairs for the &lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;Über&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt; V.I.P.’s, I looked hard but I couldn’t see any sight of Nicole, I have my doubts she was at that party. When the champagne ran out when went to the dance floor – because we were in Paris, because it was New Years, because we wanted our new friend to be happy and because we were drunk enough to deal with the horrible music. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"  style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;He couldn’t find his friends&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;, we left after while. Meghan was ashamed of our cheap hotel so we got out of the taxi somewhere in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Paris&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:time minute="30" hour="6"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;6:30 am&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:time&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;. We wandered back to the hotel, ears ringing and me ravenous. The next day we missed our train by five minutes and had to sit in the Saint Lazar Starbucks for three cold hours making one coffee last.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Photo thanks to Meghan Mahaney&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="FONT-FAMILY: arial"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-1303770541234674369?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/1303770541234674369/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=1303770541234674369' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/1303770541234674369'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/1303770541234674369'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/01/champn.html' title='Champán'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R3vxYUVlEGI/AAAAAAAAAIA/Dr-lOuKsjQQ/s72-c/NY%27s+Champagne.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-5933101065393771584</id><published>2007-12-27T13:46:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-02T21:32:48.573+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Fuentes</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R3Oe6kVlEFI/AAAAAAAAAH4/RvtAPf9cZhY/s1600-h/shoes+003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5148633528038395986" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R3Oe6kVlEFI/AAAAAAAAAH4/RvtAPf9cZhY/s400/shoes+003.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Zapatillas &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Compré estas zapatillas en París, en los Campos Elíseos. Había pasado la mañana caminando por París, desde el Arco del Triunfo hasta la Torre Eiffel (solo hasta la primera plataforma, quería guardarme algo para después) y después otra vez a los Campos Elíseos con unos pies tan doloridos que estaba (casi) contenta de pagar los 120 euros que me costaron estos zapatos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;La otra noche volvía a casa con los mismos zapatos. Un poco borracha. Cuando se me ocurrió la mejor idea: la fuente de andar. Funciona igual que las fuentes de Word pero para andar. Si estás con un grupo o sola y te aburres un poco puedes elegir una fuente de andar. Las posibilidades son infinitas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Por ejemplo, la fuente Kung Fu, la fuente Groucho Marx, la fuente cansada. Es fácil saber el estado de ánimo de la gente por su fuente de andar. La fuente cansada, la fuente malhumorada, la fuente de me alegro de estar vivo. Tengo que perfeccionar algunas cosas. Por ejemplo, ¿cómo se hace la fuente en negrita, en cursiva o con subrayados? Pero creo que la idea tiene potencial.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Shoes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;I bought these shoes in Paris, on Champs Elysees. I had spent the morning walking all over Paris, from the Arc de Triumph to the Eiffel Tower (only up to the first platform – I wanted to save some for later) and then back to Champs Elysees with such sore feet I was (almost) happy to pay the 120€ for these shoes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other night I was walking home in these very shoes. A bit drunk. When the best idea occurred to me: The walking font. It works the same way as the fonts in Word but for walking. If you are with a group, or by yourself and you are a bit bored you can chose a walking font. The walking font is just like a type font but for walking. The possibilities are infinite.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For example the Kung Foo font, the Groucho Marx font, the tired font. You could easily divine people’s moods from their walking font. The tired font, the grumpy font, the happy to be alive font. I do have some ironing out to do. For example how do you do the font in bold, underlined or italics? But I think the idea has potential.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-5933101065393771584?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/5933101065393771584/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=5933101065393771584' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/5933101065393771584'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/5933101065393771584'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2007/12/fuentes.html' title='Fuentes'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R3Oe6kVlEFI/AAAAAAAAAH4/RvtAPf9cZhY/s72-c/shoes+003.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-210404891703028659</id><published>2007-12-24T10:32:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-12-24T11:53:07.566+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Pods Four</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R29870VlEEI/AAAAAAAAAHw/XR9qsvEc9Gc/s1600-h/pods3+030.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5147470266211045442" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R29870VlEEI/AAAAAAAAAHw/XR9qsvEc9Gc/s400/pods3+030.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Textura&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Estas vainas colgaban en grupos de los árboles. Son de un rico color entre marrón y rojo. El camino del parque en el que las encontré estaba puntuado de pequeñas semillas negras. Cada vaina contiene solamente dos semillas. Son sorprendentemente pesadas. Estas vainas tienen tanto volumen que parecen muy fuertes, pero cuando te acercas te das cuenta de que son muy frágiles. Tienen una textura maravillosa que me recuerda a la piel de las manos de los trabajadores.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Texture&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;These pods hang in bunches from trees. They are a rich red brown colour. The path at the park where I found them was dotted with the little black seeds. Each pod has only two seeds inside. They are surprisingly heavy. These pods have such volume, they look very strong, but when you get closer you can see that they are very fragile. They have a wonderful texture that reminds me of the skin on workers hands.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-210404891703028659?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/210404891703028659/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=210404891703028659' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/210404891703028659'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/210404891703028659'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2007/12/pods-four.html' title='Pods Four'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R29870VlEEI/AAAAAAAAAHw/XR9qsvEc9Gc/s72-c/pods3+030.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-6449258966587635053</id><published>2007-12-23T16:19:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-12-23T18:19:49.821+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Pods Three</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R25800VlEDI/AAAAAAAAAHo/5NHPebeRN5s/s1600-h/pods3+009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5147188670975250482" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R25800VlEDI/AAAAAAAAAHo/5NHPebeRN5s/s400/pods3+009.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rubíes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Encontré éstas hace tres semanas. Ahora que he aprendido la lección de Utebo siempre busco los árboles, a veces es difícil encontrar la fuente. Al final lo hice, después de ojear el suelo durante dos semanas. De nuevo venían de los árboles que había a los lados de la calle, pero esta vez las semillas estaban más escondidas. Estas semillas son objetos hermosos, parecen gemas caras. Las semillas de color rojo brillante, que contrastan con el marrón oscuro y sombrío, acurrucadas entre tres alas son maravillosas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rubies&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;I found these three weeks ago. Now that I have the Utebo lesson behind me I always look for the trees, sometimes it is difficult to find the source. I finally did after two weeks of scanning the ground. Again they came from trees alongside the road, but this time the seedpods were more hidden. These pods are beautiful objects, they look like expensive gems. The bright red seeds, contrasting with the sombre dark brown, nestled among three wings are stunning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-6449258966587635053?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/6449258966587635053/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=6449258966587635053' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/6449258966587635053'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/6449258966587635053'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2007/12/pods-three.html' title='Pods Three'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R25800VlEDI/AAAAAAAAAHo/5NHPebeRN5s/s72-c/pods3+009.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-7766243078821930992</id><published>2007-12-14T11:55:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-12-14T12:27:14.138+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Pods Two</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R2Jk3EVlECI/AAAAAAAAAHg/huj8MZZ-e9Y/s1600-h/autumn+photshop.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143784621630361634" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R2Jk3EVlECI/AAAAAAAAAHg/huj8MZZ-e9Y/s400/autumn+photshop.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Viento&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Estas vainas son hermosamente frágiles, son muy finas pero soprendentemente fuertes. La luz brilla a través de ellas, y producen un susurro maravilloso cuando sopla el viento.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Wind&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;These seed pods are beutifully fragile, they are so fine yet suprising strong. The light shines through them and they make a wonderful rustling sound in the wind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-7766243078821930992?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/7766243078821930992/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=7766243078821930992' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/7766243078821930992'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/7766243078821930992'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2007/12/pods-two.html' title='Pods Two'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R2Jk3EVlECI/AAAAAAAAAHg/huj8MZZ-e9Y/s72-c/autumn+photshop.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-3368180579567278851</id><published>2007-12-05T22:50:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-12-05T23:32:16.907+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Joder/Fuck</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R1ci01O6nGI/AAAAAAAAAHY/HVWAf3ywVDs/s1600-h/Madrid+5th+dec+2007+passport+022.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140615790704893026" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R1ci01O6nGI/AAAAAAAAAHY/HVWAf3ywVDs/s400/Madrid+5th+dec+2007+passport+022.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Amsterdam&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Este puente Daniel y yo íbamos a ir a Amsterdam. Habíamos planeado el viaje con mucha antelación. Habíamos hecho las maletas y estábamos listos; yo tenía una crema especial para el frío. Íbamos a ver mi exposición, caminar junto a los canales, visitar la casa de Ana Frank (yo iba a comprar su diario otra vez, porque dan una sello de la casa con ella), ir al museo Van Gogh, comer en el barrio judío, comprar ropa interior térmica en Tchibo, comprar libros en inglés en el American Book Center. En general, pasar un buen tiempo juntos en una ciudad fantástica. Hay ciertos pares de cosas que van juntas, por ejemplo:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Cigarrillo – Mechero&lt;br /&gt;Pasta de dientes – Cepillo de dientes&lt;br /&gt;Resaca – Dolor de cabeza&lt;br /&gt;Viaje internacional – Pasaporte&lt;br /&gt;Guante – Mano&lt;br /&gt;Cuchillo – Tenedor&lt;br /&gt;Condón – Pene&lt;br /&gt;Internet – Ordenador&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¿Puedes adivinar cuál de los pares estaba incompleto?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Amsterdam&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;This long weekend Dan and I were going to Amsterdam. This trip had been planned long in advance. We were packed and ready; I even had special face cream for the cold. We were going to see my exhibition, walk along the canals, visit the Anne Frank house (I was going to buy her diary again ‘cause they put a special Anne Frank house sticker on it) go to the Van Gogh museum, eat in the Jewish quarter, buy thermal underwear in Tchibo, buy books in English at American Book Center. Generally pass nice time together in a fantastic city. There are certain pairs of things that go together, for example:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Cigarette – Lighter&lt;br /&gt;Toothpaste – Toothbrush&lt;br /&gt;Hangover – Headache&lt;br /&gt;International travel – Passport&lt;br /&gt;Glove – Hand&lt;br /&gt;Knife – Fork&lt;br /&gt;Condom – Penis&lt;br /&gt;Internet – Computer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can you guess which pair was incomplete?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-3368180579567278851?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/3368180579567278851/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=3368180579567278851' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/3368180579567278851'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/3368180579567278851'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2007/12/joder.html' title='Joder/Fuck'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R1ci01O6nGI/AAAAAAAAAHY/HVWAf3ywVDs/s72-c/Madrid+5th+dec+2007+passport+022.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-4656997056690631952</id><published>2007-12-03T23:50:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-12-04T10:43:03.410+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Pods One</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R1SUPFO6nFI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/qIJ5PMKj9gg/s1600-R/utebo+pods+017.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5139896061560265810" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R1SUPFO6nFI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/xO4_Y58Z2sM/s400/utebo+pods+017.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Pasos en Utebo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Encontré una de estas casas de semillas cuando iba a trabajar a Utebo el año pasado. Vi una en el suelo y me sorprendió su belleza diminuta. La cogí y empecé a buscar otras en el suelo. No encontré ninguna. El día siguiente que tenía trabajo en Utebo me bajé entusiasmada del autobús y empecé a buscar por el suelo otra vez, ¡y encontré tres! Durante las siguientes dos semanas, dos días por semana (lunes y miércoles) encontré tres más cada día. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;La semana siguiente caí en la cuenta de que tenían que venir de alguna parte. Ese día miré hacia arriba a los árboles que crecían a lo largo de la avenida y mira por dónde, estaban llenos de esas hermosas vainas unidas. Empecé a dar saltos en un estallido de placer, después me di cuenta de que la gente me miraba de manera extraña, así que agarré unas cuantas y metí todas las que pude en el estuche de mis gafas de sol. Ahora las tengo en mi mesa de trabajo. Pequeñas cosas que nos recuerdan que no importa lo que avance la técnica: no podemos igualar las creaciones de la naturaleza. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Footsteps in Utebo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;I found one of these pods when I was walking to work in Utebo last year. I saw one the ground and was amazed by its tiny beauty. I picked it up and began scanning the ground for others. I didn’t find any. The next day that I had Utebo work I excitedly got off the bus and began scanning the ground again, this time I found three!!! For the next two weeks, two days a week, Mondays and Wednesdays I found three more each day. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The following it week it dawned on me that they must be coming from somewhere. That day I looked up at the trees growing along the Avenue and lo and behold they were full of these beautiful pods. I jumped up and down in a burst of delight, then noticed people were looking at me strangely, so I got a grip and put as many as I could into my sunglasses case. Now I have them on my work bench. Small reminders that no matter how advanced we are technically, we are no match for nature's creations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-4656997056690631952?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/4656997056690631952/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=4656997056690631952' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/4656997056690631952'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/4656997056690631952'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2007/12/pods-one.html' title='Pods One'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R1SUPFO6nFI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/xO4_Y58Z2sM/s72-c/utebo+pods+017.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-3165330203930452106</id><published>2007-12-02T21:02:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-12-02T23:06:40.972+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Hojas</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R1MRCFO6nDI/AAAAAAAAAG8/fCSdJuf5mtc/s1600-R/autumn+011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5139470327222017074" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R1MRCFO6nDI/AAAAAAAAAG8/ss96Z8u-o-8/s400/autumn+011.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Otoño&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;El otoño es una de mis estaciones favoritas. Me gusta porque el mundo parece estar ardiendo. Los árboles estallan en llamas ostentosas, el último baile con sus hojas antes de quedarse calvos y perderlas todas. También me gusta encontrar las vainas de semillas que ofrecen los árboles. Tan distintas y tan perfectas. Tan elaboradamente protegidas y decoradas pese a ser unos objetos funcionales.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Autumn &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Autumn is one of my favourite seasons. I like that the world seems to be on fire. The trees bursting into ostentatious flame, one last dance with their leaves before they go bald and loose them all. I also like finding the different seed pods that the trees offer up. So varied and so perfectly formed. So elaborately protected and decorated for such functional objects.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-3165330203930452106?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/3165330203930452106/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=3165330203930452106' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/3165330203930452106'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/3165330203930452106'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2007/12/hojas.html' title='Hojas'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R1MRCFO6nDI/AAAAAAAAAG8/ss96Z8u-o-8/s72-c/autumn+011.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-7845492875546731097</id><published>2007-12-01T14:33:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-12-01T14:42:01.104+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Sombras</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R1FjFlO6nBI/AAAAAAAAAGs/1B1Ia1zK-Vk/s1600-R/albarracine+doorwaysfri+20+may+018.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5138997597351615506" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R1FjFlO6nBI/AAAAAAAAAGs/FtT_aBb4Oek/s400/albarracine+doorwaysfri+20+may+018.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Libro&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Hoy a las 20:30 en Los Portadores de Sueños Eva Puyó va a presentar su primer libro &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://ropa_tendida.blogia.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Ropa Tendida&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;. Esta colección de cuentos familiares es sincera y divertida: una vez que has empezado a leerla, no puedes dejarla. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Book&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Today at 20:30 in Los Portadores de Sueños Eva Puyó presents her first book &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://ropa_tendida.blogia.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Ropa Tendida&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; . It is a collection of stories about her family, it is honest and funny: once you have started reading, you wont be able to put it down.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-7845492875546731097?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/7845492875546731097/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=7845492875546731097' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/7845492875546731097'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/7845492875546731097'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2007/12/sombras.html' title='Sombras'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R1FjFlO6nBI/AAAAAAAAAGs/FtT_aBb4Oek/s72-c/albarracine+doorwaysfri+20+may+018.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-4808574027921520313</id><published>2007-11-26T22:59:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-11-27T10:46:24.422+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Rubias</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R0tDUJFRsRI/AAAAAAAAAGc/UyWkK9wgPkc/s1600-h/blonde+hair+009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137273813260677394" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R0tDUJFRsRI/AAAAAAAAAGc/UyWkK9wgPkc/s400/blonde+hair+009.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pelo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Una cosa que siempre me ha tocado los huevos son los chistes de rubias. Para mí, una rubia natural, no son muy divertidos. ¿Por qué tenemos que ser, mis compañeras rubias y yo, más estúpidas que las demás?&lt;br /&gt;Un estudio de la Universidad de París X-Nanterre afirma que el rendimiento mental de los hombres cae cuando tratan con una rubia. Aparentemente, esto se debe a que creen que están con un alguien menos inteligente, incorporando el estereotipo de la rubia tonta. Uh huh.&lt;br /&gt;No voy a dar ningún ejemplo de rubias inteligentes, porque no necesito justificar nuestra inteligencia. Aquí hay tres ejemplos de los chistes que me enfadan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* ¿Cómo se llama una rubia con dos neuronas?&lt;br /&gt;* Embarazada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* ¿Qué tienen en común OVNIS y las rubias listas?&lt;br /&gt;* Oyes hablar de ellos pero nunca los ves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* ¿Por qué escaló la rubia el muro de cristal?&lt;br /&gt;* Para ver lo que había al otro lado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hair&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One thing that has always pissed me off is blonde jokes. For me, a natural blonde, they aren’t very funny. Why do my fellow blondes and I have to be more stupid than the rest.&lt;br /&gt;Research undertaken at the University of Paris X-Nanterre has demonstrated that the mental performance of men drops when they are dealing with a blonde. This is apparently because they believe they are dealing with someone less intelligent, buying into the stereotype of the dumb blonde. Uh huh.&lt;br /&gt;I am not going to give any examples of intelligent blondes, I don’t need to justify our intelligence. Here are three examples of the jokes that make me angry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* What do you call a blonde with two brain cells?&lt;br /&gt;* Pregnant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* What do UFO's and smart blondes have in common?&lt;br /&gt;* You keep hearing about them, but never see any.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Why did the blonde scale the glass wall?&lt;br /&gt;* To see what was on the other side.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-4808574027921520313?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/4808574027921520313/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=4808574027921520313' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/4808574027921520313'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/4808574027921520313'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2007/11/rubias.html' title='Rubias'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R0tDUJFRsRI/AAAAAAAAAGc/UyWkK9wgPkc/s72-c/blonde+hair+009.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-1167021321490921905</id><published>2007-11-19T22:41:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-11-20T00:02:27.102+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Girl from Qatif</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R0IDgZFRsQI/AAAAAAAAAGU/okzM26RWuHI/s1600-h/dead+bird+001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R0IDgZFRsQI/AAAAAAAAAGU/okzM26RWuHI/s400/dead+bird+001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5134670380179501314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sin vuelo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;Los pájaros para mí son un símbolo de libertad. Pueden volar, pueden tocar el cielo y pueden escapar batiendo sus alas. Este pájaro ha quedado aplastado bajo las ruedas de un coche. Esta mujer ha sido aplastada por la injusticia. Como en su país no hay libertad para las mujeres, no tiene escapatoria, ya que no hay caminos legales que garanticen este derecho humano fundamental.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Una mujer saudí de veinte años, víctima de una violación múltiple, ha sido sentenciada a 200 latigazos y seis meses de cárcel tras recurrir una sentencia que originalmente la condenaba a recibir 90 latigazos. Su condena ha sido aumentada por “intentar influir a los medios”.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;También aumentaron las sentencias de sus siete agresores, que la violaron 14 veces. Inicialmente, fueron condenados a pasar entre diez meses y cinco años en prisión. Sus nuevas sentencias oscilan entre dos y nueve años. La víctima, que tenía 19 años cuando se produjo la violación, ha sido condenada por violar las leyes de Arabia Saudí que prohíben que un hombre y una mujer que no son parientes se relacionen entre sí.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;En Arabia Saudí la magistratura es designada por el rey y tiene una amplia discreción para repartir sentencias. A menudo las pruebas no son concluyentes y con mucha frecuencia el acusado no tiene representante. Los violadores pueden no recibir ninguna condena, o ser sentenciados a muerte.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;El abogado de la víctima, Abdul Rahman al-Lahem, ha sido apartado de la defensa de su cliente, ha sufrido la confiscación de su licencia profesional y ha sido convocado a una vista disciplinaria este mes (Noviembre 2007) por colaborar en que los medios llamaran la atención sobre la injusticia del caso. &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Flightless&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Birds for me are a symbol of freedom, they can fly, the can touch the sky and they can escape by flapping their wings. This bird has been squashed under the wheels of a car. This woman has been crushed by lack of Justice. As in her country there is no freedom for women, there is no escape as there are no legal avenues that guarantee this basic human right: &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;A 20 year old Saudi Arabian gang rape victim has been sentenced to 200 lashes and six months in jail after appealing a judgment which originally ordained she be given 90 lashes. Her sentence was increased by the judges in punishment for “trying to influence the media against them”.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p face="arial" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Her seven attackers who raped her 14 times also had their sentences increased. They were initially 10 months to five years in prison. Their new sentences range from two to nine years. The victim who was 19 at the time of the rape has been sentenced for violating &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Saudi Arabia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;’s laws which forbid unrelated men and women to associate with one another.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p face="arial" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;The judiciary in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Saudi Arabia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; is appointed by the king and has wide discretion in handing down sentences. Often there is inconclusive evidence and many times the defendant is left unrepresented. Rapists can receive no punishment all the way up to the death penalty.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p face="arial" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;The victim’s Lawyer Abdul Rahman al-Lahem has been suspended from defending his client, has had his license to practice law confiscated and has been summoned to a disciplinary hearing later this month (November 2007) for playing his part in focusing media attention on the injustice of the case. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p face="arial" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-1167021321490921905?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/1167021321490921905/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=1167021321490921905' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/1167021321490921905'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/1167021321490921905'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2007/11/girl-from-qatif.html' title='Girl from Qatif'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/R0IDgZFRsQI/AAAAAAAAAGU/okzM26RWuHI/s72-c/dead+bird+001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-9218894662376205638</id><published>2007-11-13T23:03:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-11-14T00:16:48.248+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Comida instantánea</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/RzokfewHriI/AAAAAAAAAGM/VJkfRUL6Ujc/s1600-h/food+007.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132454848591539746" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/RzokfewHriI/AAAAAAAAAGM/VJkfRUL6Ujc/s400/food+007.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maíz&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Soy muchas cosa pero una lata de maíz no es una de ellas. No tenemos nada en común. Lo único que se podría decir, si no sabes hablar bien, es el color amarillo. Por mi pelo. Hace unas semanas leí &lt;em&gt;El Curioso Incidente del Perro a Medianoche&lt;/em&gt; de Mark Haddon. Al protagonista no le gusta el color amarillo. Una de sus razones es que es el color de maíz, que no puede digerirse y por eso no hay razon para comerlo. Pero a mí me gusta y voy a continuar comiendo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sweetcorn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am many things but a tin of sweet corn isn’t one. Neither do we have anything in common. The only thing you could say, if you didn’t know how to speak well is the colour yellow. For my hair. A few weeks ago I read &lt;em&gt;The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time&lt;/em&gt; by Mark Haddon. The main character dislikes the colour yellow. One of his reasons is for the colour of sweetcorn which is indigestible and therefore there is no point in eating it. But I like sweetcorn and will keep eating it.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-9218894662376205638?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/9218894662376205638/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=9218894662376205638' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/9218894662376205638'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/9218894662376205638'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2007/11/comida-instantnea.html' title='Comida instantánea'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/RzokfewHriI/AAAAAAAAAGM/VJkfRUL6Ujc/s72-c/food+007.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-4156082406631385472</id><published>2007-11-10T20:17:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-11-11T12:04:57.946+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Soft rain</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/RzYEK-wHrhI/AAAAAAAAAGE/daOuEwiE1X8/s1600-h/San+Sabastian+7+julio+2007+020.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5131293412125290002" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/RzYEK-wHrhI/AAAAAAAAAGE/daOuEwiE1X8/s400/San+Sabastian+7+julio+2007+020.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Piedras &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Este verano cuando mi hermana estaba en España un amigo preparó un viaje a San Sebastián. Es una ciudad preciosa, me gustan las calles estrechas, las tapas, la limpeza de la ciudad, el olor del mar. La Concha no me impresionó nada: para mí es un playa sucia, pequeña, llena de gente y barcos que expulsan sus productos contamintantes en el agua.&lt;br /&gt;Para mí lo bueno de San Sebastián no es la Concha, sino las obras de Chillida, las iglesias, la lluvia suave, los edificios nuevos mezcados con los viejos. Me encantaron estas piedras. Todas son diferentes, todas son formas construidas por el hombre, pero parece que se hubieran hecho de manera natural. Y ahora todas son una parte de mar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stones&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;This summer when my sister was in Spain a friend planned a trip San Sebastian. It is a beautiful city, I liked its long narrow streets, the tapas, the cleanliness of the city and the smell of the ocean. The Concha didn’t impress me at all, for me it is a dirty beach, small, full of people and boats discharging their contaminants into the water.&lt;br /&gt;But the best part of San Sebastian for me is not the Concha, it's the works of Chillida, the churches, the soft rain, the new buildings mixed in with the old. I loved these stones. All are different, all formed by human hands but as if they had been formed naturally and now all are a part of the sea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-4156082406631385472?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/4156082406631385472/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=4156082406631385472' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/4156082406631385472'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/4156082406631385472'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2007/11/soft-rain.html' title='Soft rain'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/RzYEK-wHrhI/AAAAAAAAAGE/daOuEwiE1X8/s72-c/San+Sabastian+7+julio+2007+020.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-5357990901554868833</id><published>2007-11-04T20:12:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-11-05T00:52:03.052+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Pinceladas</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/Ry4bBw6FQdI/AAAAAAAAAF8/u6KTxnAf3yU/s1600-h/Copia+de+Heraldo+de+Aragon+014.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129066742743908818" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/Ry4bBw6FQdI/AAAAAAAAAF8/u6KTxnAf3yU/s400/Copia+de+Heraldo+de+Aragon+014.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gotas de lluvia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hice esta foto el inverno pasado. Hay un grupo de árboles en Duquesa Villahermosa. Cuando llueve la corteza cambia de color: de varios tonos de gris hueso a brillantes verdes y blancos y naranjas, como si fuera magia. La corteza tiene una hermosa textura pictórica. Estos árboles son lo bueno de un día de lluvia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Raindrops&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I took this one rainy afternoon last winter. There are a bunch of trees on Duquesa Villahermosa. When it rains the bark changes colour from various shades of bone grey to vibrant greens and whites and oranges, like magic. The bark has a beautiful painterly texture. These trees are the advantage of a rainy day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-5357990901554868833?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/5357990901554868833/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=5357990901554868833' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/5357990901554868833'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/5357990901554868833'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2007/11/pinceladas.html' title='Pinceladas'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMA70mZHLDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/dJb8evosIT4/S220/pip+halloween.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/Ry4bBw6FQdI/AAAAAAAAAF8/u6KTxnAf3yU/s72-c/Copia+de+Heraldo+de+Aragon+014.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-9172727626383183483</id><published>2007-11-03T20:54:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-11-04T01:25:23.181+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Humo</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/RyzSRA6FQcI/AAAAAAAAAF0/QM0f2XKd5V8/s1600-h/BURNT+LENTILS+002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5128705265411375554" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/RyzSRA6FQcI/AAAAAAAAAF0/QM0f2XKd5V8/s400/BURNT+LENTILS+002.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; Lentejas quemadas&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style
