Darlings
Our friend Greg came to stay (he’s in Town renewing a Visa to Foreign Lands for business Trips).
So there was a very chic (i.e. French) housewarming gift….
A swift tour of our building (and the backlit underlit Pool – very LA)….
Parus for supper (get onto sunset boulevard and keep going East – rather appropriately)…
Followed by Delicious icecream at Neveux Artisan Creamery with unbeknownst combinations that totally worked like strawberries and balsamic or honey and lavender or rosemary and butterscotch or blueberries swirled with creamy chevre.
Very sophisticated and incredibly swoony.
Divine.
About teamgloria
I used to make my living from writing. And then it all stopped and so I went and did something else, part of which entailed a whole new look from Brooks Brothers (it wasn’t really me, but it was necessary). But a decade later I started to write again (during nights and weekends and frustrated lunch-times and long haul business travel) and one of the things I wrote (or came to me – as I do believe in the whole Muse concept) was a character called Gloria.
Gloria was a trainee angel and sat “up there” waiting for her first assignment. To occupy the hours she should have been studying humans and their foibles, she spent her time enjoying the new celestial movies-on-demand channel and became obsessed by Doris Day. So you can imagine the drama that unfolded when she came to Earth. Quite a shock to the system. But Gloria was determined to see Manhattan through the eyes of a vintage Doris Day movie and something magical started to happen – to me too.
Because I started to do the same thing and life became easier (and then I got Tobias the tumor which changed the trajectory, for now).
There are a lot of glorious people, places & things that help me get through my day – they make my life great – and so I call them “team gloria” (although they don’t usually know that). So I thought I’d start documenting them, and looking out for new people, places & things on a daily basis, and sharing them with you (whomever you are – do say hello. Oh, and tell me who your team gloria is :-)
I am utterly distracted now by Heather’s glace bettrave…
Any chandeliers in your ice cream eatery?
dearest D – sadly not – you’re right – we need to find some Urgently.
#chandelierWithdrawal
Mmm…I do have a penchant for odd ice creams. There is a new gelateria that opened up the street from me. You have to ask what off the menu flavors they have that particular day–beet and cucumber were my favorites so far. I missed out on their holiday offers of foie gras sorbet and the like…next year!
So happy you had such a lovely evening. Well-deserved of course.
Have you swum in your pool yet?
Bisous,
H
Heather! Beet(root)? Curious……
Why yes. The pool is filled with sunshine most days, late morning, so depending on tasks and timetables, if we are here, we Do Swim and pause at the far end to smile up at the sky.
Oh yes, beetroot, sorry about that. Beetrave en francais. Not as bitter as you might think.
And if you would salute that LA sky for me on one of your turns, I would be most grateful.
doing it Right Now.
we just told the LA morning sky that Heather says Bonjour (the LA sky is fluent, of course)