2001-07-07 - 2002-01-01 - blog

mashoo

2001-07-07 - 2002-01-01

john and paul's place, cardiff

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this date is a guess; the same goes for the day at the cottage, though i am slightly more sure of that; i think there were at least two weeks between the two events, each probably occurring on a saturday

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john's bafta party; or homecoming; something like that; camille, jacques, caroline, sophie and daniel; sophie spots the camera from across the room

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caroline, jacques, camille, sophie and daniel; camille lifts sophie, whereupon jacques lifts both lifter and lifted

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camille, daniel, sophie and me; sophie testing the shortness of my hair; working her way up to kissing me (strange girl)

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sophie and camille do the splits

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sophie stands on matthew's back; camille behind the lens

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matthew and paul laugh; paul smokes

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at the end of the evening, sophie asked for a shoulder ride; as we emerged from the sitting room, she asked whether the adjacent room was john and paul's bedroom; `do they have sex in there?'; as i carried her slowly down the stairs, jo told me i shouldn't be doing such things with my back;

sophie remained mounted for a walk around the block; i think it was before the walk that she tried to get keith's attention by calling up to the sitting room; `dad! ... dad! ... keith!' et cetera; he's not the best listener, and he failed to hear his daughter's voice on this occasion;

going south-east along cathedral road, we talked about rude words; she listed the first letters of the ones she knew; they were several; and she asked me to take her socks off; don't remember about the trainers; we passed a couple of lads; up dyfrig street, i think; and back down the alley, where she mispronounced my surname and then dismissed it with `...or whatever your name is';

people were preparing to leave when we returned; in the porch, caroline and i put sophie's socks back on her feet; outside, john observed how like a young keith sophie looked

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kitchen, the cottage

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gwen and jean at the kitchen table

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red lion, llandovery

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the red lion, llandovery; paul drinking on the left; john checking his fingernails; huw, john and dai in the background

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kitchen, the cottage

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jean prepares the food

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sophie took this; said i looked like tony blair

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sophie carries camille

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camille carries sophie

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paul, matthew, john, jean, caroline, gwen and keith all blurred in the garden; sophie behind the lens

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where sophie and camille poked around in some shit, the cottage

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sophie and camille poke around in some shit

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car parking space by garage, the cottage

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camille and sophie on the volvo

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camille and sophie on the volvo

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high street, cheltenham

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sitting room, sydenham villas road, cheltenham

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hogshead, cheltenham

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tommy and dave

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can't remember the chicks on the ends; nor the name of the guy on the left; he was the assistant manager; a good lad; nadine, dave, tommy

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cathy; the best girl in town; one of my few moments of heaven during my time in cheltenham was when i was stood in my usual place, near the far end of the bar; i felt a gentle pinch on my left triceps; it was her; how wonderful; another time, a saturday morning, i think, i encountered her in front of the pub, having just woken from a dream about meeting her as she emerged from cambray place; again it was magic; all bouncy and smiling; she was chatting with a young couple; i stopped for a few words and smiled back; she ended up walking my way, toward the supermarket or wherever i was going, but she overtook me when i bumped into peter, again at the cambray place turning (50 to 100 metres on from the pub); since she was going my way, i suppose the dream had been inaccurate; but i wonder; and i wonder what might have happened if i had set out from home a minute or so earlier;

the guy on the left of the photo was a fairly recent employee from australia; he was nice; she called him `aussie scuuum', in that local drawl of hers; meanwhile, we called her `breasts'; too bad she's wearing black here

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billy's place, cardiff

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scarlett wanted me to photograph her roller-blading into the kitchen; at least, i suppose they were blades; paul, michael, billy and john

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keith's place, cardiff

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camille and sophie waiting to get in the car

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camille and sophie, hiding from dad

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camille and sophie, not hiding from dad

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hogshead, cheltenham

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new year's eve; village people; under the safety helmet is steve, a cool martial artist; dave the indian

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she was a good laugh too; i think the place had opened in the spring; that original staff were great fun, including a guy who left when he knocked up his girlfriend, but who had been excellent at serving beer, getting me to try new brews and the like; i have forgotten his name too; they had a lot of real ale at first; it was great; especially one night when my tipple was butcombe bitter; after about 8 pints of enjoying the banter of the peeps behind the bar, including whipping each other with tea towels and tommy cutting notches into beer mats, attaching them to his nose, putting on a serious face and saying ``okay, who's been throwing beer mats around?'', the beer guy and the numerous others from the staff meeting upstairs came down and quickly started buying rounds of goldschlager; i got involved, and ended up being gloriously sick on my kitchen floor; high times

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