Kimono Red

My first pair of Birkenstocks! Buying them was a risk since I have very wide, pronating, flat feet and I'm not sure if they will get along with "The Gizeh". Jacqui-O (an amateur personal shopper) ordered them on the Internet. Asians love a bargain! I'll miss Jacqui next year. The hangers will be full and Oxford Street labels will go unrecognised and unappreciated at Grapevine.

Big Daddy's Rap

Yo, Big Daddy upstairs,
You be chillin
So be yo hood
You be sayin' it, I be doin' it
In this ere hood and yo's
Gimme some eats
And cut me some slack, Blood
So's I be doin' it to dem dat diss me
Don' be pushin' me into no jive
And keep dem crips away
'Cause you always be da man,
Straight up

(thanks to O.K.)

* sigh *

I loved you – and my love, I think, was stronger
Than to be quite extinct within me yet;
But let it not distress you any longer;
I would not have you feel the least regret.
I loved you bare of hope and of expression,
By turns with jealousy and shyness sore;
I loved you with such purity, such passion
As may God grant you to be loved once more.

---Pushkin