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‘For a change’, sunny for about a minute this morning, but the thick layer of mustard coloured cloud was back in abundance almost immediately again threatening more torrential rain – Still, at least the down-pours we had yesterday, and the rise in temperature (it’s +4 today), has washed away the four days of snow totally out of sight as if it had never happened!

And, since the move to Białystok, cocooned as I am without the internet in an impenetrable world of ‘foreign’ radio stations, as far as I’m concerned nothing has happened..? Having access to the internet only when I’m around at Daniel’s, then I’m thoroughly missing being able to listen to the BBC on a daily basis! It’s true, I’m not one for debating the news until one too many beers, so conversations here rarely involve topical up-to-the-minute chats on world events until it’s too late of an evening to sink in, so I really do miss it all being unveiled quietly in the background on the wireless while I’m working away in the studio, (I like to call it the studio as it helps the working process, but actually it’s Grzegorz’s kitchenette)… The fact is, I really haven’t a clue what’s going on in the world these days, but the alternative, in listening to Radio Białystok, perhaps has some hidden benefits in that my Polish just may be improving subconsciously as a consequence. I say subconsciously as I can’t recall anything at will, but as an example of the unknown power of even an aging mind like mine, while in a taxi with Dominika the other night, I involuntarily started to recite Polish words and phrases I hadn’t previously been taught or even thought I’d heard before. I hadn’t a clue what they meant, but Dominika assures me that this is a great step forward in grasping a new language..? This may be so, but it still doesn’t alter the fact that I’ll never be able to truly get to grips with this impossibly crazy lingo enough to have a real conversation in Polish past the usual small talk of strangers or asking for a beer politely at the bar – never!

Aha, I thought I’d never see the sun again – it’s just found a crack, or fingers crossed, perhaps even a great hole in this bloody perpetual leaden sky, to cast the perfect light through these weather scoured windows to paint by..! So, czy mozemy przelozyć nasze spotkanie – dziś nie Niedziela – Bóg mówi Paul działa – or words to that effect..?P.S.. Shit, that was short-lived - it’s snowing yet again!