Sunshine in Chiswick

So we ventured out last Sunday to see the Sun. Also to buy a car battery charger for Brendon's car, which cried itself dry during the last month of loneliness and boredom. And snow and cold.
There we probably thousands of people on the streets. OK, maybe only hundreds, but the sun just makes everything and everybody come alive. Even if it was only 3 degrees. We walked all the way home. 2.5 miles. The last mile with a battery charger. Hand in hand... I mean with Brendon.

Stripes



Yellow tunnel



Blue Sky



More stripes

Christmas and the monkeys

So we spent the Christmas in Hungary and enjoyed a couple of days in a Spa Hotel in the mountains up north. Well, not very high mountains and not that much north either, but still.
The most important part of the journey was the one we actually took no pictures of, because it was -11 C outside and was snowing too and we were inside. The hot water. Otherwise outside, just like the monkeys in Japan, like this:


Picture from amusingplanet.com

The middle one is me, Brendon is to the left. Though it is obvious, just look at our hair.

But to prove that we actually went out to the cold and also to show my dedication towards my new lens (Christmas presie from Brendon) here are some more pictures of trees and snow and trees and snow and trees and snow...

Tree and snow



Tree and snow 2

Tree and snow 3

God Bless the Queen 2

Es megegyszer. Csak azert, mert homokot szorunk a hora, az nem fog elolvadni. Ellenben ha eloszor ellapatoljuk a havat, akkor szorhatunk, mert ugyan a homok nem egy reneszansz ember, de csuszkalas ellen jo. Es az egbol nem veszelyes anyag (treacherous substance), ciganygyerek, pudlikutya vagy aratogep hullik, ahogy azt a mediakban eloszeretettel hangsulyozzak, hanem ho. Vagy esetleg jegkristalyos viz. 

Azt meg elfelejtettem hozzatenni, hogyha megegyszer valamelyik kollegam azt mondja, hogy holnap "megprobal" bejonni dolgozni, orrbavagom. Mi az, hogy megprobal bejonni? Ez munkahely, nem szabadonvalasztott szombat delutani szocialis sorkorcsonya.

Londont mult szombaton megtamadtak a gonosz hopelyhek. Azota is a hullakon lepkedunk.

God Bless the Queen

This little thing here is for my hungarian speaking fanbase and it is mostly about my despise towards impotent people.

Es most a magyarul beszelo rajongotaboromnak szeretnem anyanyelven eloadni az angolokkal szemben erzett totalis frusztraciomat. Mert hogy lehet, hogy az az orszag, amely egykoron vilaghatalom volt, most keptelen megtisztitani a reptereit? Anglia bepanikolt, mert az egbol feher vattanak tuno csapadek esik, ami nyilvan furcsa egy olyan orszagban, ami a fold eszaki felteken a Foldkozi-tengertol 1000 km-re eszakra helyezkedik el. Tel van es telen esik a ho es hideg van es ezen a 21. szazadban emberek meg tudnak lepodni, mert ugye tel csak egyszer van evente es hat a tel vegetol a kovetkezo tel megkezdeseig el lehet felejteni minden rosszat, havat es hideget.
Mert mi is tortent az elmult 3 hetben? Esett a ho. Nem igazan sok, csak egy kicsi, hoemberepiteshez pont elegendo. Erre 5000 iskola bezar, szulok otthon maradnak gyermekeikkel, nyilvan a buszvezetok es hotakarito munkasok is szulok, ugyhogy ok se mennek dolgozni, amitol aztan mas se jut el munkaba es itt a veg... Mert leesett 12 cm ho.
(OK. Skociaban tobb esett, de ez most az en szempontombol teljesen lenyegtelen, mivel nem vagyok Skociaban es nem terveztem ezen a telen odautazni.) Aztan megjelennek a hirek, hogy na igen, a vilag egyik legnagyobb repulotere bezar, de hat vegul is a legtobb ember amugy is draga burzsoa karib-szigeteki nyaralasara igyekezett es megerdemlik, hogy ejszakakat a reptereken toltsenek, mert ha nekunk szar es nem mehetunk napozni, akkor dogoljon meg a szomszed tehene is. Majdnem magyarok az angolok. Az, hogy a legtobb ember a vilag egyik legnagyobb repuloteren altalaban atszall vagy leszall, esetleg felszall, mert haza akar menni, hogy a szeretteivel, vagy kevesbe szeretteivel toltse a karacsonyt, arrol nem beszelunk. Ugyhogy neha, csak neha szeretnem az osszes sznob nyugat-europai Europa Unios polgartarsamnak az orrara kotni, hogy szegeny, hulye, kommunista, kelet-europai nyershuszabalo barbar Magyarorszagon mi vasaroltunk holapatokat, sot es hokotroautot.
Mert az mar csak hab a tortan, hogy az atlag angol hozzaallastol aztan barki ferfoldulhatna. Mert egy angol sose csinal semmit. Csak megprobalja. Esetleg eselyt ad neki. Marpedig az esely nem fogja letakaritani az utakat es a jardat.
8 merfoldre lakunk Heathrow repulotertol. Szombat del ota nem esett ho. A repuloter zarva van pentek ota es elorelathatolag szerda reggelig. Nem akarom itt tolteni a karacsonyt csak azert, mert a tehetetlen szigetorszagiak nem probalkoztak elegge. Ranting is over. And Out.

First set of pics from Australia



Scaling up the wombat.

Wombats are one of the cosiest animals. They look like nothing else
and you just want to wildly cuddle them. But you are not allowed.

They have pockets though and sleep on their back with legs to all sides.







Gee, I take pics of plants...









  

Ficus watkinsia, which is not a tree

View from Mountville

The green has a totally different color in Australia.

It is almost neon green. Bit crazy and very 80s.

Stormy Byron Bay

When we arrived, it was really still stormy at Byron Bay,

but the colors are always more pronounced when the

weather is like this, and anyway... It was the Pacific Ocean.

THE OCEAN... I love the water, the wastness, the immense power

 and the fact that it is so ancient. Me in a funny mood...

Sleeping Koala

They do sleep a lot. And their butt is hard, because they sit on it

so much, that they need a less sensitive part. My butt is big too,

but I don't sleep that much. But then I also don't eat eucalyptus

leaves, although they smell pretty good. The leaves, not the

koalas. They smell like furry animals.



Australian Honeymoon

And so we went to Australia. Brendon promised sunshine and heat, which kind of almost came, except when we arrived, it was pouring down. And was kinda cold.
But whatever. Australia is great, the hills and mountains are beautiful and we saw koalas and ate kangaroos and watched Brendon surf and drove thousands of kilometers (Brendon did most of the driving, I only drove when everybody else was drunk) and visited family and friends and waterfalls and two states worth of driving license registration offices.
Honestly funny to visit a country where the first non-aboriginal settlement means younger than my apartment in Copenhagen.
And they are singing little songs in the TV commercials.
Like this except of course newer.

And the most important... I was attacked by a humongous leech. It wanted to suck the blood out of me by attaching itself between my middle and ring finger. And then I must have smelled very odd, because it just left. Jumped off and disappeared in the jungle.
I think Brendon was disappointed, he was ready to drive an hour with my throbbing hand and a big and growing leech til the next salt.
Everybody should go to Australia. People are real nice and they have lots of pie.
Pictures coming soon.

Sunday Walk

On Sunday I went for a walk around our home. It was kind of sad. British architecture is really not doing much good for the look of the city. We are lucky with our house, but wherever I look I see decay. Bad quality cheap materials, ugly tall houses, rotting house boats and overused McDonalds. Mind you it is a nice walk. It was just grey weather. Plus being a foreigner on Sundays is usually depressing. And Brendon was out being a guy, watching football and drinking beer. I was alone enjoying social housing in the western suburbs of London.

Houseboating traffic jam




Bridge Steam Museum

 



River Thames during low tide being muddy



Phallic suburbia










Inside and outside



Playground in the park with a view