Archive for June, 2007

difficulty in a video shop

Monday, June 18th, 2007

Ian, Madeleine, Rioja and StitlonWhen Ian and Madeleine came to visit last weekend we had lovely few days of relaxing, catching up and generally leaving the madly rushing world behind us. With a help of stilton and a wonderful bottle of Rioja (hand imported by Nick to the UK, then brought to Poland) we remembered things past. And in the mood of laziness we got a video out. And here was a small hic-up. We went to the video shop and were faced with the task of choosing a film. On top of the usual problem of having three people with six different views of what to watch between them, we also faced the problem of actually finding the films – of course they are listed under their translated titles. For Ian and Madeleine to be confused it is understandable. But I was confused too! I felt I didn’t know any of the titles. But in the tragedy of the situation there were moments of comedy, when one tried to reverse engineer translation of a given title.

flowers 24/7 … continued

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

Kwiaciarnia Roza LogoSo last time I mentioned the 24/7 flower shop. I think I now know why it is open 24/7.

When Bella and I were going to my sister’s house for a dinner we thought we would stop there and buy some flowers. To give them justice they had a superb choice and let Bella choose the flowers for the bouquet, which made her very happy. And then the problem started. We handed the chosen flowers to be made into a bouquet … and we waited … and waited …. and waited.

pan1.jpgTrue, the result was beautiful, but it made us rather late for the dinner and it made our wallets significantly lighter. Advice given to us later by my sister was to phone in advance and order the flowers.

Indeed if it takes them so long to make the bouquets they better be open 24/7. But as they say, you cannot hurry artists.