Friday, 01 May 2009

• Busy Little Bee

  Where has April gone? I blinked and the entire month's disappeared. The cheerful daffs and delicate crocuses have come and gone, and suddenly all the trees in the park are no longer naked. They are clothed in sungreen leaves and the birds are back. Spring is such a lovely awakening, such a welcome change after this winter's snow and frost.

  Am running with a few personal projects on top of work at the moment, which has completely leached away my spare time. The writing took off during the month and I've just finished a private commission (phew! I got really tired of writing about the zodiac towards the end) in time for the monthly payout in the first week of May. I also made a new resolution to run on Monday nights and go to yoga as usual on the weekends that I am in town. Lastly I've also scheduled in Spanish classes at home every week.

  It was quiet for the first three weeks of April but the last week has sapped me. Summer is around the corner, so there has been a flurry of organising gigs and activities. Holidays to Iceland, Cornwall, Egypt and Italy need to be organised, flights booked, accommodation sorted out. My bestie was here (she leaves tomorrow morning to Venice) for almost a week and I tried to spend as much time as I could with her. It is always joyous and fun and insane when we meet, even if we only meet at best, once a year on average. Some friendships are so deep and simple that they need no maintenence save a sporadic reconnection every now and again. There has been the occasional night out to a comedy gig, dinners with friends, virtual dates online with Jeff, a tiny bit of guilty shopping done in Canary Wharf to celebrate the fact that I am now an official paid writer (hurrah!).

  Heading to Copenhagen tomorrow. I was awake till 2:30am yesterday reading The White Tiger. There is a parade of people coming to London this summer: Idaman leads the mob in a few weeks, then I'm heading for a weekend to Belfast. My family comes for a fun filled two weeks in June - London, Oxford, Bath, Stratford-Upon-Avon, the Cotswolds, the Lake District, Edinburgh, The Highlands - I challenge you to fit anymore sights into an incredibly compact itinerary. Spanish classes start in July, and Charli comes for a lightning visit, before dropping back in again here in September. Lloyd is coming for a few days and it will be absolutely fab to see him again. Jeff and I are planning to eat at a number of places in NYC, then rent a cottage by a lake in upstate New York for the rest of the week in August. We don't intend to do very much else besides sit on the deck in the sun, swim, go for a spin on the jetski, barbeque fish outdoors, read and hang out together. Bliss.

  In between now and the end of May are a movie night with Michael, an all day writing course, dinner with high school friends, high tea at the Berkeley, a National Theatre play, a friend's birthday night out at Kitts, and then Jeff arrives and we'll have our own amusements. If the weather is nice we'll probably head down to Brighton for a day trip. Honestly the pace of London takes my breath away with its sheer brilliance and speed. I love it, but it does take a lot of energy to keep up with her, this city of my dystopian dreams, always demanding more, always with just one more new restaurant to review, one more achingly cool gallery just opened, another precious, ancient exhibition. I'm not tired of London yet, nor am I tired of life, but right now I'm definitely tired of running around the way I have been the past week.

  May promises to be hectic, if April is any judge.

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