1. I went to City Screen to see "Caramel" with Allan. It was really charming movie set in Beruit about four ladies who work in a hair salon and their friends. It's a funny and lovely little film about love and friendship. Nothing novel there you might think and perhaps it's also a fag chick flick I suppose although that's just a very stupid description. The bloke who wrote the screenplay for SATC was complaining on the radio that some people interpret that story as a thinly disguised tale of four gay men in New York (frocks, fucking can't fermember the third "f"). He Thought this was insulting to strong and determined independent women. Whatever. I'll go to see it anyway and probably enjoy the campness. "Caramel" was beautiful and described any group of friends who love each other. I had a great time, I actually laughed out loud. Not LOL. Actually out loud. Wonderful. Be warned though there are images of male and female leg waxing with warm caramel. Ouch!2. Afterwards we went to eat at The Indian Lounge on Swinegate. It's my second trip there. The food is very good I think. No sloppy, oily sauces just fine and well spiced Indian/Aisian food of good quality with gentle and generous service. They don't seem to have a web page but my link takes you to a review from The Press which has all their details.
3. I often struggle to find a third beautiful thing. The first two are usually quite easy. But then I remind myself that I am surrounded by people and things that give me a lot of pleasure and help me to get on to whatever comes next. Allan was a big part of my day and he makes everything good for me. He's gone off to the south of France to a conference so I'm feeling a bit lonely without him here. I was looking through my collection of photographs from the last few years that we've been together. I tend to take pictures when we go away on holiday and I found some from a trip we made a few years back to Oregon and Washington State in North America. Looking through them gives me a warm glow of happiness and excitment. One of the things I enjoy the most is preparing an annual calender which I send out at Christmas as a way of keeping in touch with people and it usually has my favourite pictures from my trips with Allan. Amazingly my friends seem to have it up on the wall when I visit which gives me a kick. So today I was looking through my May and June calender pages at stuff marked up to do and people to see and it was beauwtiful.
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