One of the irritating things about being an academic is that when summer rolls around you find a lot of people say things like "So, you've got the summer off then?".And the answer is "No, I will be working bloody hard earning my tenure."
But if I learnt one thing last year it was that you have to make some proper holiday time for yourself where you can leave your home and work offices, not check your email, and avoid your family.
So I'm going to Halifax to visit Queenie in August. People keep telling me that Halifax is a great town, the Dublin of Canada. I'm looking forward to a week of cafe's, vintage clothes stores, gossip, drink, music and maybe even dancing.
I'm so excited I've already got my holiday reading sorted out. I will be bringing Mmm. Chiang Kai-shek's biography and a pulp novel about the Soongs. I'm fascinated by Mme. and her sisters. I'm beginning to consider her something of a role model: intelligent, beautiful, rapacious, and she wears great shoes. Look at the photo. There she is at the Cairo summit in 1943, wearing peep-toes with huge bows. That's style. Shame about the husband, though.
3 comments:
Love, love LOVE her shoes! Wow!
Well, I don't know much about this 'Mme', but she sure had great taste in shoes!
I hope you'll have a fantastic time during your vacation. We all need them. I'm forgoing our annual trip this year, as DH and I are in the process of purchasing our very first home. :) Yay! We're grownups!
Apparently she had some American lover with whom she was going to carve up the world.
Halifax is more the Dublin of Canada when Dublin was in a recession than the Dublin of today.
Which is why we like it.
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