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Notebooks - Los Cuadernos de Julia
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Notebooks - Los Cuadernos de Julia was started in 2006, and is an online equivalent to my real-life notepads, where I write everything, from random thoughts and telephone numbers to long essays and poems. The recurrent themes on the blog are literatu
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Magical Mystery Tour: Liverpool Has Now Got Its Own Big Wheel
At the end of November I went to Liverpool, more or less on the spur of the moment, as I often do. My adventurer's spirit was well rewarded with a visit to Liverpool One Wheel. The report below was first written for NowPublic.com. The photos can all...
Tartans: The Love of My Life
One of my childhood memories about books is connected both to knitting and to Scotland. In one book there was this illustration: a man in kilt and long socks was sitting by the chimney, knitting. I learnt to knit, as you know, while tartan has becom...
Christmas in the City: Manchester Snow
I have already reported about the spectacular snowfall in Manchester, but here are the photos I took during the week of Winter Wonderland. These include portraits of several amazing snowmen and one snow-woman. ...
Things to Do Before You Die? Waterstones Can Help!
During my journey to Liverpool in early December I went in Waterstones where I was instantly greeted by this display. Christmas time undoubtedly brings with it thoughts about both life and the end thereof, so the prominence of stuff "to do before you...
Reporting Live in Manchester Snowfall
The week leading up to Christmas 2009 has brought amazing weather. It is snowing, it is slippery, it is everything I was used to when I lived in Moscow for 20-odd years. Sadly, in the UK, particularly in Manchester, the weather like the one I went ou...
How I Didn\'t Recognise Parma Ham
Do you remember this passage in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, chapter IX 'Queen Alice'? At last the Red Queen began. "You've missed the soup and fish", she said. "Put on the joint!" And the waiters set a leg of mutton in front of Alice,...
You Can\'t Stop the Music (Julie Delvaux)
Back in August when I was taking a week off blogging, I posted a playlist with my covers. Well, what do we have in December? Imeem was acquired by MySpace - congratulations to both of you, darlings, but I've lost my playlists and the abilit...
What They Do at Manchester Town Hall
Manchester Session 7, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. The day I went out in Manchester for a photo session with a photography student (back in October) we ended up walking into the Town Hall (that houses Manchester City Council) and aski...
Liverpool 2009 - Sunset
Liverpool 2009 - 8, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia.I took this photo on my recent visit to Liverpool, and it captures just about everything I've ever loved about sunsets - and what I presently miss. In all time in England I rarely had a c...
Visit Manchester and Sweet Mandarin
More and more people are visiting Manchester these days, and admittedly there are more and more reasons to do so. FutureEverything (festival-formerly-known-as-Futuresonic), Manchester International Festival and Manchester Literature Festival, Queer U...
Thinking of Cex Exchange? Look No Further...
And now for something completely different... Back in January 2007 I received a strange leaflet through the post. It informed me that my Nokia mobile phone was at the wits end because the owner (=me) was flirting with other phones. Then it turned out...
A Peregrinating (British) Library
I've always been surrounded by books, as you know. Since I came to England, I have amassed a darn good collection, too, which was occasionally but generously enriched by my mother. As a result, I've got books in English, Russian, and French, plus one...
Secret - One Thousand Vinyls
I still vividly remember how a clip "I Love Boogie-Woogie" by the Russian beat band, Secret , was coming up on TV, and my mother was switching channels despite my protests. I was deeply saddened... and years later, after injections of the Wester...
My Christmas Dress
Christmas Dress, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia.As I'm writing this post, it is raining outside, and I'm elated that the winter season as we know it in the North West, with strong winds and endless rains, has finally started. I almost beg...
She Stared at My Open Window...
...protected by nothing except bikinis made of leopard skin and boots (it is almost mid-November, after all). Her gaze was inviting, and her dark locks flowed freely down her shoulders, entwining with the glossy waves of her blonde friend who sat by ...
Upcoming posts
-1-Contrary to what I promised to one very attentive and faithful reader, I was in no mood to post anything anywhere since last Friday of September. And no, it wasn't because it was the company's pay day, and I'd finally got the pay rise I was promis...
Slow-mo or Fly-mo: A Matter of Choice?
First of all, I want to assure those who found it hard to get by without any posts on this blog that I will make sure that I don't leave you with nothing to read for a week again. My Internet seems to be back up, a brand monitoring project that I was...
The Day I Was Critical About Manchester Pride
For a start, let me expressively state that I am speaking with tongue in cheek in the title of this post. I have never actually been to the Pride: not because of any special feelings but because I never had the chance. Then last year when I was at ho...
Blogger Julia and the Typewriter
Some of you will instantly recognise a paraphrase of the title of Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa in the post's title. I remember reading it in about 1998 in Moscow. I was a second year student, and my reading would often occur ...
Back From the Wizard Land
So, I am back from Wales, back to Manchester, but God knows, I'd love to go back and plunge deep into the Welsh valleys, and climb the Welsh hills, learn the ancient Druidic songs, and study every single monument and legend there is. Below are the ma...
Fighting the Praise (Kate Bush, Wow)
30 July is Kate Bush's birthday. You can wish her happy birthday on this MySpace page; view her MySpace channel; read a Wiki bio; track the tracks on Last.fm; catch up on the news; surf Gaffaweb; and, above all, visit her official website. The photo ...
The Question of Privacy - 1
-1-At work we moved offices. I am now taking a bus in the morning and in the evening. And so the next day after we moved I went to GMPTE Travel shop in Piccadilly Gardens to buy myself a weekly bus pass.The pass has to go with a special bus card that...
Love Imposes Impossible Tasks...
I say about nearly every place I visit that "I've long wanted to go there". Be it York, the Welsh castles, or even London, I'd long wanted to go there by the time I finally went. I should probably stop saying this because I want to go to so many plac...
