Meeting Manu Chao....

To see Manu Chao in Consent was one of the main reasons why we went down to the Byron Blues Festival!
So after his show, I had to go and hassle the security guard to go get him for me!
I had become one of those annoying drunken fans, but I did not care, i had to try, i had to say hello to Manu Chao...
I knew he was a cool guy, see I had met him once in Barcelona, and gotten him to autograph a Post Card for my Brother Morgan! What made me realise that he was a cool guy was that as we were (my friend and I) leaving the Cafe on our bicycle, not paying attention to Manu, he is the one that yelled out "Chao"...

But I was to be blown away even more....

So after standing there for a while with the security guard, and even getting other people back stage involved in "YOU MUST GO GET MANU FOR ME TO SAY HELLO"....We eventually got kicked out!!!

I tried...I was not leaving disappointed!

The next day, was spent at the beach...In a really relaxed manner on a quit beach...
4 or 5 men came down, and Stephen and I started the Classic, is that Manu Chao, not its not, yes it it, No, Yes, No and yes its him!!!
Passing right in front of us! As they had passed us Stephen says "Go Manu" and I scream (because they are further away by then) "the consent last night was great" (in French)!

We sat there in amazement for a minute until we realised that we had let him pass and go with out a photo, an autograph....Nothing!
Stephen tells me I have to go run after him, as they might make the loop and go back the other way, thus miss another opportunity...So I get up to see where they are??
Its ok, they are coming back and seem to have found a stop not too far, so i sit down...I want to appear cool about it all....
But I notice that Manu Chao has not stopped and is coming back this way, our way...I am behind Stephen, Stephen his back to him...
But MY OH MY, Manu Chao is coming STRAIGHT TO US!!!!

He just came to say hello, asked us where we were from, where in France I was from, casual banal conversation that did not last long, but long enough to get the photo of a lifetime and to tell him that After Bob Marley he was the one person I most wanted to see in concert!
That he had no idea how much memories I had with his music, how much travels I had done listening to those tunes....
He was humble, he was so easy and once again he has shown me that he is real to himself, a human a man with talent but close to the world and those around him!

Thank you Manu Chao!
That photo is going on my wall of Fame!

Bus Adventure in the .

Its very exiting, our Bus has passed all the road worthy tests!
We will be able to take it on our little end of year trip south to spend a few days with Stephen's family!
We have owned it now for 18months and this is the first time we will use it!
Finally, and we are soo looking forward to it!
So, we have parked in in the vacant blog next to our unit, we can see it from our balcony!
Have I mentioned how exited we are??

The Sounds of Our childhood

 This Morning after I dropped off Tullula at day care, I went for a run!

I have been feeling that my body needs to move, needs to be used!

After my run, I did some yoga stretches and as I did the final relaxation pose I heard an out-board engine!

(I was by a very calm beach, where many boats play around on the water, fishing)...

And I was delighted...

Yes delighted by the sound of an engine!

Strange??

yes, but it took me back to my childhood, to my upbringing!

So as I layed there, I focused on that sound and got lost in the memories that were all rushing back to me!

I used to keep a whole lot of perfume bottles that had that same effect on me, took me back to certain places, people and time.

But the sound of the engine was all my childhood in one package! 

hearing the engine was someone coming home, a visit, going ashore, going for a ride, exploring! It was soo much fun!

It was great!

                                                                                                                                                                            That's me, riding on the dinghy when I worked in the
                                                                                                                                                   Caribbean!

 What are the sounds of your childhood?

The Little Things...that make me happy!

Decorating Home...The Toilet!
This Month, I did my very first Ten on Ten photo project that Rebekah at  "A little bit of sunshine" is doing.
And in my shots I had one of my loo..But I did not show what really makes me happy about my Loo!

Now my home is full of colours and has all sorts of bits and pieces all over.
Most of it, come from all over the world, travels I have done, souvenirs and I keep is all alive by living in that space and mind!
So, I will do a little series on the The Little Things. about my home, starting with the Loo!

Its Paris...The city where I lived for about 3 years, that I LOve and where I have left my very dear girl friends...I have so many wonderful memories of Paris and my time there...On the other wall panel is actually a Huge map of the city...I love it and It makes me happy!

TuesDay TulluLa

The Little Things That make me HaPPy

 Finding Seeds!

OH yes, it sure does make me happy when ever I find a new seed or just the seed by its tree! 

See I collect them, as well as incorporate them in the jewellery that I make! So I am actually in the process of getting a little book together with all the different seeds I have, and I always try to have the tree as well...But that's not always easy as some seeds are drift seeds and I find then on the beach, after a very very long journey that they have been on, washed up to be found as treasures!!!

The last batch I found were these Mexican Oleander's, and the tree as well! I was trilled! I could not believe it!!! So here I was, going crazy to try and pick up as many as I could, passerbys probably thinking I was crazy!!! But they just have no clue! Some did ask me, what was I picking, and they were quite surprised!!!

In the car, on the way home I just could not stop laughing, and being amazed at my find!!!

Now I have two little Mexican Oleander seedling's on my Balcony!!! I shall never go short of that seed!!

Here are other things that make me HaPPy:

               Fish Pond  

              Fruit Bowl 

The Little Things That make me HaPPy

My fish Pond.
It was given to for the last Christmas, "Christmas chringle"...
At first is was just a Lily Pond, but then we started a mosquito farm, so I had to quickly get a fish to eat the larva...Well I came home with 3 gold fish!! (I got carried away)
Now I just love to go out on the balcony and feed them every day, just sit then and look at them be...I do have to sit real still as they are real scardy cats!!! Maybe Tullula has tried to fish them out once too many!!!!
I am not atached to it, and its one of those little things that make me happy!

here are the other little things that make me happy:
The Little Things That Make me HaPPy

The Little Things that Make me Happy!

 Every now and then I get very happy with the smallest things, and today I thought that really I should be recording these things down, as not to forget then in those times of need!

This morning, at 8am, after dropping Tullula off at Day Care, I headed to the shops, and did our groceries for the week...I then had a whole lot of little things to do in town, and only got home at 11h30 to unpack...As I unpacked the fruit, I remembered how much I love a beautiful fruit bowl. The smells, the flavours of the Fruit we have at hand and how that Bowl filled of Colours added sunshine to my Kitchen...

I will be back with more of these little things that make me happy...As happyness can be all around us if we are willing to open our eyes!

So Out of Place!!!

I always wondered what category of people I fell into, and now I think I may have fallen into my spot!!!
Chic Real Bohemian?? I don't quite like the sound of that...But sometimes we really have to be true to ourselves!

I have always known that I was some sort of hippy at heart, my whole upbringing was very free spirited and little by little I have found myself to be going back that way too. Even more so now that I have a child of my own...yet, I think sometimes few people would be able to guess it! For sure my wardrobe consists of a lot of  colourful, way out there pieces of clothing, yet most days I'm pretty conservative. I don't like to stand out, I know when I can or cant, what I can wear and when...

Yet, if you are to talk to me, I really don't fit in, and I hear myself and I make myself feel like I'm some weird person..Yes my baby wear's cloth nappies, and she what she sees on TV is some Chinese cartoon from the 1970's...and we don't feed her meat, or have had her vaccinated!!! Yes her favourite toy is a can filled with bear top's, and we let her play in the recycling bin and get dirty in a heartbeat!!!
As for us, up until 2 months ago we did not have a TV, we sleep on a mattress on the floor and we  don't shower every day or wash our cloths as soon as the day has ended! (come on some things can be worm more than once before they are truly dirty, and if you sat at home all day doing not much do you really need another shower??)...I like to make as much of our things as possible, and almost everything we buy come from the OP shops...Even our cars are second hand!!!

Yet we are very normal people, we are just out of place maybe??
Well that's the way I feel!!