Family Affairs
Aug. 2nd, 2005 11:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloWe were in Whitechapel this January. My cultural associations with Whitechapel are Jack the Ripper and- er- well- that's it really, but there's a great Art Gallery right next to the tube station.
We drank coffee at a pavement table and a psychotic busker with a huge head of hair circled the cafe brandishing his guitar like a club.
I fell in love with the place.
Trouble is, we couldn't afford the rents.
But in one of those odd developments that isn't exactly spooky but seems to be verging on it, my ex-wife is moving there tomorrow, along with her friend, the Methodist Minister, who is being sent there by her Church.
All this is by way of explaining why my son Joe, who is a northern lad and doesn't want to be based in London, is moving in with us. He and his girlfriend Sarah showed up yesterday with boxes.
And here they are.
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Date: 2005-08-02 05:46 am (UTC)Yes indeed- among the bits and pieces Joe brought with him are a large statuette of the Grim Reaper and a samurai sword!
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Date: 2005-08-02 06:09 am (UTC)Well, I have no recommendations for that!
Do you know Karate?
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Date: 2005-08-02 06:15 am (UTC)Among the stuff that has been dumped with us is my other son's karate kit.
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Date: 2005-08-02 06:20 am (UTC)My own son is taking Tai Kwan Do.
When he was young, he practiced by kicking at the refrigerator (or the car, or me) and stopping just short.
Now he was a colored belt, and is moving up the ranks.
For myself, I learned the glacially slow and utterly boring Tai Chi some years ago. Alas, I have almost forgotten it. Too dull, like posing in a tableau.
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Date: 2005-08-02 07:35 am (UTC)I find it invaluable if ever I put my back out.
Mike got to be a Karate brown belt (I think.) But since he went to Japan he's let it slide to concentrate on his frisbee.
hmm ...
Date: 2005-08-02 06:19 am (UTC)Re: hmm ...
Date: 2005-08-02 07:30 am (UTC)But I'm trying to suggest that this thing- though far from being life-sized- would be rather too big for the average mantlepiece.
Re: hmm ...
Date: 2005-08-02 07:57 am (UTC):D
Re: hmm ...
Date: 2005-08-02 08:10 am (UTC)