Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Starspots #776


25/2/13
Mary Portas - 124 Horseferry Road (music chat)

26/2/13
Konnie Huq - Ivy (geek chat)

26/2/13
Peter Wilson - Ivy (guns & Olympics chat)

Sunday, February 24, 2013

The Promised Land - Sunday's Happiness Experiment entry

Running around the moshav on my usual route by the Taninim river

Reading My Life on the terrace and walking around the moshav

Chatting to Cecelia with U and the Enfants Terribles

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Bet Hananya
Ben Gurion
Luton

The Promised Land - Saturday's Happiness Experiment entry

Graffitied old wrecked house in Jaffa with Sandra and Daphna

Noam's animation studio in Jaffa with preview of his old Tel Aviv film

Catching up with Jaffa, Itzik and family in Petach Tikva

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Jaffa
Petach Tikvah
Beit Hananya

The Promised Land - Friday's Happiness Experiment entry

Chatting to Danny the beer&pizza man at Ein Hod with Liam, N, D & U

Reading on the ruined pier at Caesaria at sundown

Watching Michael Mann's Ali

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Bet Hananya
Ein Hod
Caesaria

Friday, February 22, 2013

The Promised Land - Thursday's Happiness Experiment entry

Chatting with Adam Zuabi and D over tea at the house

Lunching at the port in Caesaria with Adam and U

Watching Bridesmaids accompanied by D's laugh

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Bet Hananya
Caesaria

The Promised Land - Wednesday's Happiness Experiment entry

Long slow lunch with U at the port in Caesaria, waited upon by a half-Morrocan, half-Russian beauty with black hair and green eyes

Dancing at Aidan's barmitzvah to C2C's Down the Road with the hard core of the two families

Enjoying the ancient tranquility of the Coral Palace at Caesaria on the beach below by the dyeing pool

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Bet Hananya
Caesaria
Kibbutz just south of Caesaria

The Promised Land - Tuesday's Happiness Experiment entry

Encounter with a man and woman who were singing Bgalil Tel Chai(?) At sunset by the Roaring Lion monument to Joseph Trumpledor

Encounter with a hippy chick on the path above the waterfall south of Metulla, talking about birds, flowers and life at the outpost

The outpost vibe of Metulla main street and environs

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Kfar Szold
Metulla
Waterfalls just south of Metulla
Tel Chai memorial
Bet Hananya

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

The Promised Land - Monday's Happiness Experiment entry

Massive population of cranes visiting the Hula valley

Views of Sea of Galilee - aquamarine against aquamarine hills (from West shore)

Arriving at the Hammat Gader hot mineral baths in late afternoon sun after rain under a triple rainbow

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Kfar Szold
Hula nature reserve
Rosh Pina
Kinneret
(Tiberias)
Hammat Gader

The Promised Land - Sunday's Happiness Experiment entry

One of my all-time best coffees at Abud Adham in Kfar Yasif - we were in search of hummus

Settling in to kibbutz Kfar Szold near Kiryat Shemona

A meaty feast at Doris Katzarim with Doris and Noris in Rosh Pina

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Bet Chananya
Kfar Yasif
Kfar Szold
Rosh Pina

The Promised Land - Saturday's Happiness Experiment entry

Running along the Tannanim stream listening to Soul Music about You've Got a Friend

Eating Yemeni dough rolls with tomato with the O'Vadiahs

A trip up to the spy heroine (Abramson of the Nisi) in Zikron Jakov

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(Benyamina) [fri night]
Bet Chananya
Zikron Jakov

The Promised Land - Friday's Happiness Experiment entry

Walking down the stone ramp en famille at Ben Gurion

Eating meat soup at Bet Chananya with the O'Vadiahs

Being inspired to write (about Skrik) by The Great Gatsby

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London Luton to Ben Gurion Tel Aviv
Bet Chananya

Friday, February 15, 2013

Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Eating with U beneath the marble of No. 8 Northumberland Avenue (Boyds)

Starting The Great Gatsby for the 2nd time (28 years on)

Watching a play based on The Sun Also Rises

Saturday, February 09, 2013

Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Checking out Joe Orton's flat

Listening to Any Questions while driving around London

Channel 4 won Rio 2016 Paralympics

Wednesday, February 06, 2013

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Chatting with Katie Boyd over lunch

Going to Clerkenwell through jerusalem Passage (for Broadcast roundtable interview)

Reading O Jerusalem Sherlock Holmes (non-Conan Doyle) story set in Holy Land

Sunday, February 03, 2013

Fwd: Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

Rebecca / Suspicion - murderer in the house

Begin forwarded message:

From: Adam Gee <adam@arkangel.co.uk>
Date: 3 February 2013 21:03:16 GMT
To: Blogger Blogger <aarkangel.mobile@blogger.com>
Subject: Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

Joseph Cotten - Orson Wells - Touch of Evil -Psycho
Staircase - SoaD / Psycho

Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

Joseph Cotten - Orson Wells - Touch of Evil -Psycho
Staircase - SoaD / Psycho