The conversation began on the 17th May – yeah, I know …
toni: do we have an ongoing/new challenge? I appear to have lost plot re this [ps, hen lulu (who no longer resides chez nous) has had a chick! Aw.]
jenny: we are in the Black Forest until Sunday - but I have my camera and am up for any challenge you care to pick.....well, most - it's all very rural - certainly not much in the way of graffiti! just about to have pre dins glass of something fizzy [PS talking of hens - have colleague who just hatched 5 chicks in her classroom.....v cute (and even at their very young ages, they make one heck of a racket!)]
toni: Just off on organised nine mile walk. Grabbed iporn book and found 'shoot something round'. Think is poss? Happy weekend. X x
jenny: yes - let's go for it! your 9 miles makes our few km this morning seem a bit lame....just recuperating in the bar.....
toni: I have a few pictures... but not one is round. The 'round' pebble I found is now on its way to belgie, as forgot to retrieve it from BF's car, post-walk. Linear, however, I can do... ie, have not met brief at all, but have pic I'd quite like to share... x x x hope the schwarzwald = gut. I studied there, y'know... did you come across nussknacker torte...? Was always a fave... x x x
jenny: have hunted fruitlessly for your linear pic.....was even thinking that we could so very easily adapt brief to fit (or indeed make a new one for this week and do round the following - we'll be away again, back in Barcelona yippeedoo)
had modicum of success; some cheats (snap of flowers taken through concrete pipe, and which gmail won't seem to let me attach - so perhaps that's my answer!) that I just happened to take before I opened your email, some neatly piled logs (v German) some of which were round…
plus a (rather grainy - was gloomy in restaurant) photo of our starter the last evening …
but v disappointed because husband flinched when I suggested that I put my plate on the floor for a better view - so you have to make do with a half-circle.....
had v gut time in der (die? das? was never much cop at Deutsch) Schwarzwald - but husband v disappointed not to have had any tortes at all; he was SO looking forward to some (preferably hausgemachte) schwarzenwaldenkirschentorten (our son's hausgemachte way of saying it that kind of stuck!)
where did you study? husband is halb deutsch - did I tell you that? mother born in Regensburg and uncle lived in Munich and then Garmisch - so not all that far away from where we were (near Freiburg)
toni: ...sorry, linear pic still in camera... will send this eve... phone also won't let me open your pics... so have these to look forward to, tonight too. X x x have to do school dash now... more 'laters' as they say. Have a lovely day x x x
toni: have had looooong working day + a] no chance to upload pic + b] work computer also not letting me see yours - apart from on mahooooooosive scale... am thinking square logs could be geometric/linear too... PERHAPS we could turn whole idea on head, and both take a pic a week + then one of us retrospectively generates a challenge which neatly links both. ha!
i studied europaische betriebswirtschaft [if that's how you spell it - can no longer recall!!!] at the fachhochschule reutlingen. just outside the forest, but close enough for the cake.
mwah.
And suddenly it was the 6th of June …
jenny: dropbox still disappointingly empty of new pix - and I have forgotten the brief we agreed on all those days (weeks?) ago - are. you. OK? ps - I have 9 more days in the classroom after today ...
toni: Yes. Sorry. I. Am. Here... serendipitously uploaded pix to laptop last night... more later. (school holidays = endless chauffeuring). X x x x
toni: hello JD - apols for being crap blogging chum. seem to be struggling with logistics of single parenting/overseas dating currently... my two v [non round, decidedly linear] pix are about to be in dropbox. i think 'round' was our last challenge... as in 'when is she going to get a-ROUND to sending her bloody pix..?' off oop north to visit parents tomoz... hope NINE days not feeling too dastardly! T xxx
jenny: hey - don't worry; the Blog can just sit there; our roolz remember!
toni: Am at my mum's, but put pix in dropbox before leaving - in a folder though, so maybe it didn't work? X PS Driving home tomoz, and stopping at wildlife artist's open studio near rutland water on way home. I love her work - all retro screen-prints/lino-cuts of birds and seed-heads. My purse will be itching! X x x
jenny: no sign of pic - I do keep looking (esp as the icon has a little tick on it which I had thought meant something new had been put in - yeah - but where?) although I haven't opened up all the folders (yet?) PS rather envious of your planned stopping place on your way home.....enjoy!
toni: just hijacked my sis's pc to try and resend pix - hope they've arrived...
jenny: I found them [by special invitation] the 'by-the-sea' one is very you - all velvet-soft greys, with a touch of gold …
but those stripes … the (I assume) father with the (not-quite) reverse of his (I assume) son's … the inspired crop showing concentration though not what their focus is on … is brilliant ! ! ! was it just a happy accident them being there?
ps am writing post now - as well as desperately trying to remember which linear pics I had decided on … all those weeks ago!
OK gotcha
(PS was ‘snap’ decision (as still NO clue what I had decided on before) and auch in deutschland gemacht; somehow felt it complemented both yours with the greys and the pink …)
