abstracted [æbˈstræktɪd] adj
1. lost in thought; preoccupied; 2. taken out or separated; extracted
which pretty much sums things up really; has it really been all that amount of time since post numéro 24? that week (all those weeks ago) started off rather badly…..
toni: I have neither photo…..Nor inspiration. Am I a failure? Baaaaaaaaaah!!!
jenny: worry not dear lady - I too am failure - have teeny excuse in that I have had flu (and on my birthday too.....) but blah anyway to advertising and landscapes (whatever!) am still off today but feeling much better (can't get to end of sentence without coughing though - again that cough - AND I had a flu jab!) - and I don't want to run the risk of wrecking my voice again…..maybe we can put joint failure down to a crap assignment rather than crap assignmentees? what say we choose something lovely - gasp - something not even in book? DPS does a weekly challenge - could we maybe hijack one of theirs?
toni: poor you! cough. sniff. bleurgh. xx and on your birthday?!!! SIGH!
SO relieved we are not crap assignees... the only advertising i could find in local landscape was pub sign, when went for lunch last weekend... and yes! let's do DPS abstract thang. just dashing to work now, and computer too slow to scan through other article. will read at leisure later.
take care in your convalescence... at least you can be abstract round the house...
jenny: yoohoo - it's a glorious sunny morning (if a little frosty right now) I just had an espresso and it tasted GOOD, and we have a table booked for lunch in Aix-les-Bains.....I have a new (and quite ludicrously bright, which makes it all the more fun) frock (when did I last use that word?) the car is sparkly clean (not me, the old man) and in a little while we will fling back the roof and sail off together leaving our cares behind us for the day - and for the first time since (heavens, when was it?) I feel (if not completely well, then at least rather) better
toni: Ahhhhhhhhhhhh! And yaaaaaaaaaay! You are Audrey hepburn in Roman holiday. Nearly. And! despite the fog here, I have just bought blue polka dot shoes with pink patent flowers on toes ... in which I plan to tip-tap-tip way through rest of week... x x x our sap is rising! x x have a wunnerful day! X x
jenny: you too, you too! PS - sigh - pretty shoes! when all I have are UGG(ly) boots.....
toni: I have abstract pic…Just not uploaded... hope your this Monday better than your last Monday...
jenny: that's a difficult call.....can I think in the abstract tomorrow? have long day today – sigh - have lots of pics to choose from though - just no time to choose right now
toni: No hurry AT ALL... whenever is fine... just didn't want you to think I'd bailed out... hope loooong day over deceptively quickly.
jenny: am up for posting.....although I have not quite chosen my abstract offering, and what shall we try for next week? maybe a colour? finding blue was fun.....
well, that took care of March; then it was April…..
toni: Just checking all ok...? feel like we've sort of petered off. I still have my abstract eggs in my camera. Have not picked it up since. Hope things ok with you...?
jenny: good (v good!) to hear from you.....did you get my earlier email? we are in spain this week and next - Internet a bit hit and miss - but we are fine
toni: No... no emails from you of late, but SO pleased to hear you are well... any chance you could resend missing correspondence? Twenty-something degrees here today; sleet forecast for weds... sigh. Am joyful though, as have picked up lawn mower for eight pounds from our village ebay site. Boy! Is my stripy turf gonna git respeck.
jenny: have couple of hastily chosen abstract pics for your perusal.....may change mind of course (will send via the all-new fancy-pants picasa 3.somethingorother) but that's par for the course
toni: so much to say, but keyboard and browser now both museum pieces, it seems... is like computer has had partial stroke and lower left side of keyboard no longer functioning [so no 'kisses' or sleep symblols for you...] - at work tomorrow, but will fire up laptop tomorrow night..
jenny: back in the land of the living .....which means a fridge full of Spanish veggies, and an end to radio silence! (actually have been there - the land of the living - for a few days now - but am working all week [talk about a shock to the system!] and have been a tad stressed one way and another) am awaiting your abstract eggs.....typing fingers itching
toni: ooooh jenny d! for some reason your abstract pics didn't arrive here, so i thought you were taking an unspoken break from blogging, whilst contemplating The Big Issue. abstract eggs remain abstractly in my camera... will send over tomorrow.
hope you're ok and enjoying veg... T [now no ' ' or ' ' keys working on my keyboard, and writing 'kiss' to a girl feels a little wrong...]
jenny: I looked back at all my sent mail and found NO trace of any sent abstracts.....who knows what happened to them! I don't think I dreamt it! But have (re?)sent one and sent for the first time a second. Taken at my 'shortly-after-birthday' lunch. SO long ago!
(heavens - I took this on the 15th March!!! and the one that (hopefully) follows – which it should - we are now hooked up (or whatever the term is)
with (by?) fibre optics.....(you should gasp at this point!)
[But I can back-date the post - so it needn't look too bad. Then perhaps we can choose a few of our 'delayed' challenges (I now have numbers 8 and 42 [graffiti/words] 10 [city at night] 29 [station] 52 [bug] 79 [beach textures] 69 [adverts] 63 [monument] and possibly quite a few more - Barcelona was a photographer's dream (but an editor's NIGHTMARE; 900+ pics to wade through).....]
I managed to wait until 9 minutes past 5 before I poured this evening's (first) glass of vino tinto and re: veg – husband very thoughtfully (!) got a (quite possibly illegally imported) Waitrose curry out of the freezer for supper this evening. Trouble is we have Spanish asparagus that needs eating. Not quite sure they go with one another
PS While I absolutely agree with you about 'kiss' - maybe a dainty 'mwah' would do in the absence of an x. OK on reflection I think that's a no too! Which reminds me. I finally have a U. Trouble is, unlike the other letters, it does not allow light through (my backlit keyboard). But at least in the dark I know it is the one I can't see. And yes, I do use it in the dark!
toni: goy-jus!!!! specially the droppy bit... fibre optics, eh ? i think there's just a plastic straw filled with hope which wires life here at bayham to the worldly wisely web... xxxx [diff computer! ha! mwah!] x
toni: eggs…is eggs... no matter how abstractly one tries to shoot them. in a dropbox near you, now..!
jenny: those soft speckles.....the tiny little tufts of feather.....Dave & Betty laid them perchance? and are they now a chocolate cake???
toni: Ah... Dave and betty did lay them. But. Sniff. D and B have moved on to Pyjama Farm. Because they were ANNOUNCING the laying of their eggs at sunrise (ie earlier and earlier each day). And our neighbour's son had to move bedrooms on account of the racket! Was a big wrench (surprisingly so) to say goodbye. So this photo was taken on their last day chez nous. I hid them in my room for about two weeks, so that my son couldn't use six in one hit to make an omelette.
I miss the girls massively... but not the blundering, early morning wake-ups... x x PS so glad you noticed incy [is that a word?] feather on egg...
