Moblogging

This is my first attempt at moblogging with TypePad. I hope it works!

Our trip to Paris has been good overall but not without disappointment. I was really looking forward to meeting up with Becky in Lyon on Friday but on Friday I felt quite ill. I’d been feeling a bit sick since I left Cardiff and on Friday it was very bad and I had to cancel the trip to Lyon. I think it was a recurrance of my ongoing stomach problems, I’m feeling a bit better now but it did mean that we weren’t able to as much as we’d hoped to.

The weather has been very warm, exhaustingly so. Managed to visit yarn section of le Bon Marche and la droguerie. (go to www.scifiville.com and click on Shopping Guides for addresses). Bought enough yarn for two cotton tops plus ribbon for some scarves (pics when I get back).

Also went to the musee de la mode et du textile and saw the Elsa Schiaparelli exhibition. It was amazing! Even Andy enjoyed it! Schiaparelli’s first collection consisted of knitwear. Sweaters with faux collars knitted into the design. One of these is the bow tie sweater that some bloggers have been knitting. It was in a recent edition of Vogue Knitting – I’m not sure if it’s the exact pattern or one inspired by Schiaparelli.

She did have some strange ideas about fashion though and thought that a woman should not try and fit her dress to her body but fit her body to her dress!

Today we went to Pere Lachaise and looked at the final resting places of some of the rich and famous. Oscar Wilde’s tomb was covered with kisses from visitors. Atop the tomb was a stone griffin type animal. According to our guidebook the animal used to have a penis but a caretaker had thought it indecent. So he broke it off and, bizarrely, used it as a paperweight!

Couldn’t find the graves of Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas but we did see those of Jim Morrison, complete with security guard, Edith Piaf and Collette.

We leave early tomorrow morning. Apparently it’s been very wet in Cardiff so at least I don’t have to worry about watering the garden. It will be good to see our cats again too. Haven’t seen many Parisian cats aside from one ginger that belonged to a homeless man and was curled up next to a dog in a basket and a tabby mother cat and her two little black kittens in Pere Lachaise.

One Reply to “Moblogging”

  1. I thought I was the only one who visited graves!
    Once in Copenhagen I was determined, absolutely determined to find Kirkegaard’s grave.
    I went mad trying find it because it seemed like he was buried in 10 different places on the map.
    Then it dawned on me that Kirkegaard also means church yard (or something such) in Danish.