summer in Hyde Park

We went to Hyde Park for a picnic and to see the Serpentine Gallery.

 Bertrand Laviers Fountain is beautifully colorful and clever. It is a perfect summer statue.

 While getting bread from Harrolds we stumbled on a car covered in studs.

 Every summer a famous architect is chosen to design a pavilion for Serpentine.

This year pavilion was a plastic selebration from Selgascanos.

tomatos for the sick

These amasing tomatos are fron our nearest shop. They keep the tomatos outside in the sun and it makes all the difference. I took this picture while being sick with the common cold for the sixth time this year. Nobody told me that my marvelous life abroad would be spend in sickbed. Life, even when sick, in London is not so bad with these tomatos. 

wallet

I finally got a new wallet.
It was this years find from Stoneydown Park Folk Festival.
Last year I got a cupboard. What will I get next year?

cold lunch with books

It is hot in London. I had cold tomato soup and a cold feta pie for lunch. I am reading N.S. Naipauls Half a life. Usually my reading is not this intellectual. It is in Finnish, I love simply to read and understand without rethinking the words.

Here are some other good books I have come across lately. Alice Walkers In Search of Our Mothers´ Garden interests me in two ways: I read it as a history of American culture, but also as a voice for those who don´t get to tell the story. As an immigrant, I identify with the search to express ones background in a culture dominated by the views of others. I saw Robert Mapletorphes exhibition in Finland and bought Patti Smiths book Just Kids from the museum shop. She writes magically about being an artist and following ones calling. Tracy Chevaliers Remarkable Creatures is another book about calling. It was light to read with views to the English country side. The book made me want to go to National History Museum to see Mary Annings dinosaurs again.