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7 days 1 week: AP. is away.
5 May
Apologies for the lack of blogging creative watchers . . .
AP. is away enjoying the florida sunshine – but don’t worry. We’ll be back soon . . .
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7 days 1 week: sun finally hits london.
7 AprSometimes you want noise. Today isn’t one of those days.
Spring has most definitely sprung, london feels like it is slowly shaking off the dark cloak of winter and like a hunched old man trying to regain it’s posture for the heat of summer.
AP. decided to welcome spring by taking a stroll in one of the royal parks, which if you’ve ever been to London, then you’ll know they are a real treasure. In Paris parkland is few and far between, and grass you’re actually allowed to sit on is even fewer and farther, whilst in New York you either handle the bridge and tunnel club and head to the hamptons or take a risk in trying to fight for a space in central park. Not so in London. London treasures it’s open spaces like no other city, and the royal parks are a beauty in their own right!
It’s Greenwich park that occupies us today, and sitting here listening to the faint whirring and grinding of the muscled city in the background we can’t help but think there really is no other city in the world we’d rather be in right now . . .
art? tree spiders in Pakistan.
6 Apr
Now we here at AP. like to find beauty in everything. The floods that devastated parts of Pakistan and brought the country to it’s knees in 2010 had a lasting effect on the counties population of, erm, spiders.
With fast rising water the arachnid’s had nowhere to scurry other than to higher ground – and found this in nearby trees, with the floodwater not receding for days and even weeks in some parts the trees that became the sancutuary for these spiders quickly became enveloped in thick web’s that gave an eerie but beautiful effect – that we have to say looks like a photoshopped work of art.
The spiders obviously had one major plus – the red cross reported that cases of malaria from airborne mosquitos usually associated with large volumes of stagnant water were far fewer than expected.
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icon: Dame Elizabeth Taylor dies, aged 79.
24 Mar
Movie Icon (for she was more than a star) Dme Elizabeth Taylor has died in Los Angeles. Double Oscar-winner Taylor had a history of ill health and was being treated for symptoms of congestive heart failure at the time of her death. Her four children were with her when she died in her sleep at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Wednesday.
Dame Elizabeth’s passing prompted a plethora of tributes from her Hollywood contemporaries, among them Shirley MacLaine, Mickey Rooney, Liza Minnelli, and Madonna amongst others.
“I am so sorry to hear that this great legend has passed,” said Madonna. “I admired and respected her not only as an actress but for her amazing and inspiring work as an Aids activist.”
The star who also has the highest selling celebrity endorsed perfume of all time, the mass-selling ‘white diamonds’ was plagued by ill health throughout her career. Her health problems began with a fall while filming her first hit film, National Velvet, which led to a lifetime of back problems.
A rare strain of pneumonia almost killed her in 1961 and she also battled addictions to alcohol and painkillers.
In the 1990s, she endured two hip replacement operations and another near-fatal bout of pneumonia and survived surgery for a benign brain tumour in 1997.
In 2004, it was revealed that she was suffering from congestive heart failure, with symptoms including fatigue and shortness of breath, and scoliosis, which twisted her spine. She continued to campaign for her Aids charity, which she set up in 1991 after the death of her friend and co-star Rock Hudson.
Her death will not only be mourned today – for for many generations to come.
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Amarige Panache 