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smokingbootWork has suffered over the past two days, time to refocus and concentrate, though I am not going to get much done before the cleaner turns up. So I will start later today but at least I will start.
One of the things that has been on my mind recently has been a little worry about my Mum (80 this year) and my eldest Aunt (87 this year). R and I have been discussing me going over to stay for more than a couple of weeks, maybe renting a flat, because they're cheap as chips in my family's neighbourhood. The pros are obvious. The cons: What about my husband? What about my cats? Would the diversions of Granada and its surrounds delay my work even further? I write best when bored with everything beyond the screen.
The reality could be a little apartment close to Mum, not necessarily very pretty or even, as a renter, a place I could do up. But I could spend time with her each day, and she would be far less isolated.
The dream: an old flat in the Albaicin or the Realejo or even opposite the Alhambra near the river, where on tangerine or terracotta, or old washed stone walls, I could put up paintings like this
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/carrington-spanish-landscape-with-mountains-t11896
And this
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10155980998961564&set=a.34438011563.47247.527886563&type=3&theater
There would be plants on a little sunlit balcony, and Mum could come sit there while I work on the PC.
That would be a nice couple of months. Not sure I'd get a damn thing done though.
One of the things that has been on my mind recently has been a little worry about my Mum (80 this year) and my eldest Aunt (87 this year). R and I have been discussing me going over to stay for more than a couple of weeks, maybe renting a flat, because they're cheap as chips in my family's neighbourhood. The pros are obvious. The cons: What about my husband? What about my cats? Would the diversions of Granada and its surrounds delay my work even further? I write best when bored with everything beyond the screen.
The reality could be a little apartment close to Mum, not necessarily very pretty or even, as a renter, a place I could do up. But I could spend time with her each day, and she would be far less isolated.
The dream: an old flat in the Albaicin or the Realejo or even opposite the Alhambra near the river, where on tangerine or terracotta, or old washed stone walls, I could put up paintings like this
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/carrington-spanish-landscape-with-mountains-t11896
And this
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10155980998961564&set=a.34438011563.47247.527886563&type=3&theater
There would be plants on a little sunlit balcony, and Mum could come sit there while I work on the PC.
That would be a nice couple of months. Not sure I'd get a damn thing done though.
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Date: 2018-04-06 01:38 pm (UTC)And I think you may be picking up on something that's happening with your mother if there's a strong psychic push behind the impulse to go. (I'm a huge believer in those sorts of things.)
I'm sure your husband would understand.
I'm not sure about your cats. :-)
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Date: 2018-04-07 06:48 am (UTC)My husband is very supportive, my cats... Less so... ;-)