February 22, 2013
My beautiful new website and super-blog. Designed by my husband, Alexander Gambotto-Burke. As yet incomplete – work and parenting schedules have their place – but sufficiently there to launch. It is with a sob in my throat that I thus announce that this blog is now defunct. It will remain up as a curio, but this is the very last entry.
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AND THANK YOU.
Antonella
February 19, 2013
A frantic month. We’re still working on the site – so many tweaks in terms of function, revisions, and so much restyling, and even then, only 50 per cent of it will be uploaded; were we to wait for the whole thing to be ready, it wouldn’t be up for another month. Yesterday marked Monkey’s first lesson with her new violin teacher, a wonderfully eccentric blonde from Seattle; Monkey was thrilled, and stomped about the house all afternoon, practising her pizzicato. Otherwise? All the bookcases have been cleaned, thousands of books reorganized. And because I can no longer stand the chaos, I am trying to sift through a lake of administrative tasks – proofing, design, related issues – before returning to writing. I can’t wait to get back to my writing. And these are some of the Bonica roses from the garden (the Felicia will be up next week):
February 14, 2013
My beautiful new website will be up next week.
February 13, 2013
Alex: “It’s St. Valentine’s Day tomorrow.”
Me [feigning shock]: “Oh my God, I completely forgot! Do you mind terribly if your present is late?”
Alex: “My present won’t be late.”
Me [genuinely shocked]: “How do you know? Did you look in the wardrobe?”
Alex: “No, I looked at your face.”
February 11, 2013
The Ghost and Mrs Muir (1947), starring Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison. Tierney plays a prim widow who becomes a writer; Harrison, the ghost of a raunchy sea captain. This gloriously funny and touching film’s best line – and, possibly, the best cinematic line ever? “I didn’t lead a very wise life myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one.”
February 8, 2013
With my brother behind my great-aunt’s apartment in Ferrara.
February 4, 2013
I will figure it out … after a nap.
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