Today's Happiness Experiment entry

She Stoops to Conquer at the Olivier spearheaded by the East Finchley posse of Sophie Thompson and Steve Pemberton
Supper with D in local caff
Browsing Flickr

Creative Accounting #145

She Stoops to Conquer (Goldsmith) = Tom Jones (Fielding) + The Rake's Progress (Hogarth)

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Watching Audrey Tautou in Delicatesse at the Phoenix
Reading What's Mine is Yours with a fresh coffee and croissant in an empty tube carriage
Chatting with Noora about San Francisco and marriage

Creative Accounting #553

Jonathan Rhys Meyers / Cork + cheekbones = Cillian Murphy / Cork + CHEEKBONES

Creative Accounting #552

Misterman = Garage + Psycho + Groundhog Day

This weekend's Happiness Experiment entry

Sat:
N's American Football style run
Reading The Word
The art deco Riviera Hotel, Weymouth

Sun:
Having Weymouth beach all to myself (7am)
Reading On the Road lying at the edge of a rugby field
The line of trees following the curve of the hill above Weymouth RFC

Starspots #128

Gary Kemp
Trevor Bolder (Spider from Mars)
Charles Shaar Murray
Heddon St W1

Wednesday's Happiness Experiment entry

Family end-of-hols dinner at Cafe Rouge, Highgate with Meabh and Alfie as guests

Starting On the Road - Jack Kerouac

Reading Esquire at the hairdresser

Thursday's Happiness Experiment entry

Magic show with D, his first - Pete Firman - chat with Anthony Owen

Walking around with a good Cypriot tan

Congratulations around work for Emmy

Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Breakfasting with the Enfants Terribles

Having Meabh around the house

Cracking through a load of work

Mayorships

Jazz Cafe
Wingate & Finchley FC
BBC Radio Theatre
The Walks
East Finchley Constitutional Club
Eva's Polish Deli
Edgware Academy
Edgware Library
Dept of Energy & Climate Change
West Breakwater, Brighton Marina
Camden Town Brewery
Casa Pepe, East Finchley
Camden Tattoo & Piercing
Gate 24a
AGC Equity Partners
Louis Patiserie, Hampstead
East Finchley Supermarket
Jamie's Italian
Alec Tiranti

MORE Mayorships

Recent Happiness Experiment entries

Sun 8th Apr:
Veging out behind a laurel-like bush

Reading two books set in Cyprus - Bitter Lemons (Laurence Durrell) and Judas Country (Gavin Kyle)

Snorkelling with U - tracked down the yellow fish

Mon 9th:

Lunch a deux with U on a terrace by the sea under the raspberry-type trees

Exploring the Tombs of the Kings archaeological site a quartre in the late afternoon sun

Greek coffee and baklava to round off the jovial last supper in Paphos port

Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Playing table-tennis and full size tennis with N, the latter at sundown

Snorkelling with N, close-up with some shiny white fish

Reading Laurence Durrell's Bitter Lemons about Cyprus

Phrases I like

The hard of thinking
quite a gifted layabout

Good Thursday and Friday - recent Happiness Experiment entries

Thurs 5th April:
Magic show by D in ancient amphitheatre in Paphos archaeological area behind the harbour

Hovering over a yellow rainbow fish trying out D's goggles and snorkel

The mosaic of the four seasons at House of Dionysis, Paphos

Good Friday 6th April:
Beating the Turkish Cypriot shesh besh lovers at backgammon in Turkish Nicosia

DJing my way along the Limasol-Paphos highway past the Rock of Aphrodite (her birthplace) at sunset to the likes of She's Not There (Santana) as well as Jimi Hendrix, Massive Attack, The Cure and Joy Division (Mykonos-style sundowner vibes)

Jogging down to the headland just after sunset to Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed

Sunshine following me (Cannes and Paphos) - Recent Happiness Experiment entries

Sunday 1st April:
Being loomed over by Miss World (formerly Miss Venezuela)

Picking up the Non-Fiction International Digital Emmy with the Live from the Clinic team

Drawing the scene from the space between the Musee Picasso, Antibes and the palm sunday church with the spirit of Joie de Vivre (1946) which is the jewel in the crown of the former

Monday 2nd:
Breakfast on the terrace of the Carlton, near the Dog Bar which typifies its Englishness

A flood of lovely messages via Facebook about the Emmy win

Securing some JC space for mothernachus

Tuesday 3rd:
Lively family chat over breakfast in the airport on the way to Cyprus - topics included burning issues of the day like Blazing Saddles

Arriving in Cyprus for the first time - shades of the Old Country

Enjoying the quiet of a lawn by the sea, out back of the hotel, very tranquil

Wed 4th:
Finishing a book worthy of the Shelf of Honour: Nemesis by Philip Roth, moving, tragic and insightful I masterful

A chilled out dinner by the harbour in Pathos en famille en plein air involving tahini and other Mediterranean fare

First sea swim of the year with D - including finding two Euro coins N needed for his collection in the shallows

Words I like

Blacktop (US) - paved road
Deadly (Ire, Dublin)
Hilarious

Carrying the Cannes - Today's Happiness Experiment entry

The aircraft carrier in front of the Carlton

Getting drunk on cherries at the Majestic at the MIPcube lunch

Watching youngens doing parcours and streetstuff on the beach with Yifat

Starspot #399

Chris Evans 29/3/12 HFR

Cannes Do - Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Delivering keynote at MIPDoc on pushing the boundaries of multiplatform

Jogging to the marina at the east end of the Croisette at Cannes early this morning

Reading Philip Roth's Nemesis on the plage Carlton in the late afternoon beside a woman with a New York/Noo Joisey accent