Neon Tiger

I don't wanna be kept
I don't wanna be caged
I don't wanna be damned, oh hell. 

One last night

So we made it beautiful and the morning was beautiful too, so beautiful I couldn't stop crying.
Our resolution to enjoy our time together made me feel strangely loved and happy and it was the most perfect time full of open conversation, tenderness and great food. Our goodbye was casual with a 'see you soon' attached and I meant it when I said 'I love you'.
But sat at home alone now it seems incongruous. I am now utterly alone and it will take me the next few weeks to feel the full effect of that because right now all I remember is our wonderfully loving morning together.
To not be able to speak to you every day as I have for a year and a half will slowly and painfully break my heart bit by bit.

MOTHER RUSSIA

An unexpectedly sunny Moscow and St Petersburg with my mother.
Highlights:
Moscow - Seeing Putin in the Kremlin, The 'Jewels' battle at the Bolshoi, St Basil's Cathedral, White Rabbit and Pushkin Cafe, Our green house hotel, lunch in Gorky Park and wondering around Tretyakov Gallery with Rich and Phil.

 St Petersburg - Our guest house and meeting Agnes, Church of Spilled Blood, Hermitage, Peterhof, Aleksandr Nevsky monastery, opening of the bridges by night, shopping for amber jeweller and the Pushkin museum.