Toronto the beautiful...

[fajrdrako]

I am sitting in Marilyn's beautiful compuer room/library with the sunlight streaming through the window; we're about to go for a walk by Lake Ontario.

I was not so lucky with the weather yesterday. I believe that eery time I have ever been to Toronto, it has rained somewhere along the route, but is usually dry enough to visit Toronto in relative comfort. Now yesterday. It was raining when I left Ottawa at 6 a.m.; it was raining when I got to Toronto; it rained all day as I dodged from bookstore to bookstore, and from one visit to another.

Lat night I sat talking to Marilyn about trips we have taken to Dunnett locals. She was in Edinburgh in April to see the laying of the stone to Dorothy Dunnett in Makar's Court, Edinburgh, and I saw her photos. I hope she puts them up in Flickr. She had pictures of Threave and Crawford Castle and a town called Coulter; and we compared pictures of Malta. I had last seen Marilyn at the 2,000 year old temple of Hagar Qim, overlooking the Mediterranean; now, six months later, in urban Toronto.

Had a great time yesterday talking to Mark, who had recently visited Frank Miller on the set of 300. He said: "The cast is one hundred of the most beautiful men in Hollywood. You'll love it." I suspect so!

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[widget-alley.livejournal.com]

I would love her forever if she put up those pictures. *puppy eyes*

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I hope she does! I had a wonderful time scrutinizing them, and I encouraged her to use Flickr. She says he eleven-year-old grandson Harry can help her. My fingers are crossed!

[brashley46.livejournal.com]

::waves from Y&E::

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Waving back! I'd hoped to have time to call you but couldn't find your phone number - and was strapped for time anyway. And wet. But I plan to go back to Toronto soon if only to raid more bookstores. I found a copy of John Gillingham's "Richard I" - !

[brashley46.livejournal.com]

You can always text me from my User Info page; or I could send you the 'phone number by email. (There's one in the Bell book, but we only use that landline for Internet connection.)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I'll e-mail you.

Hopefully on my next Toronto trip, it won't rain so much! But I did have a lovely time walking by the lake this morning.

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

Mark? As in Julius in the Nikado?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

No - another Mark who works in broadcasting and who doesn't read Dunnett, but who has generally great taste in books and comics and movies - i.e., we like similar stuff.

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

Oh ok.