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JULY - 2001  

366 'horizontal' insights (one each day) in the private life of RGF for a better understanding of his work by the 'accidental navigator'. This project will be made with one year + a day of images and texts.
 
 
  01 - 07 - 01: Another month has passed  by and I've hardly noticed.
   02 - 07 - 01: In Real Food I can find Exotic muesly & Hawaian crunchy, the ideal mixture for breakfast, (with Bran & Crunchy nut flakes!)
   03 - 07 - 01: While I was painting I thought that, with so much heat, the haar was entering... but they were only burning branches in Sheila's garden 
   04 - 07 - 01:  With so much heat, the haar came in... to stay all day
   05 - 07 - 01: POSTCARS FROM SCOTLAND: They pay  little attention to the Chinese piper  I understand it
   06 - 07 - 01: Of all the movies that I have seen in the last few  days, ' Presque rien' is the one that I like the most
   07 - 07 - 01: PRIVATE GARDEN: With so much rain  you can't play neither in Wimbledon nor here  (as every year)

   08 - 07 - 01: Wimbledon  women's final... while I am painting (Venus W. was the winner)

   09 - 07 - 01: I've found  Wimbledon men's final boring and with far too many ' national feelings' among the supporters
   10 - 07 - 01: VISIT: John B. just back from  Namibia where he was directing a play.
   11 - 07 - 01: I'd already had breakfast when I arrived to the presentation (with breakfast) of the Film Festival program.  It was too late!!. 
   12 - 07 - 01: POSTCARS FROM SCOTLAND: I don't like the sound of the Scottish bagpipe (neither the one of Galicia).
   13 - 07 - 01: PRIVATE GARDEN: When the 'Haar' enters, the garden becomes a mysterious place...
   14 - 07 - 01: The new Parliament's windows remind me of those that appeared in some of my paintings of the 80's
   15 - 07 - 01: The flowers that John B. brought the other day are still alive.
   16 - 07 - 01: POSTCARS FROM SCOTLAND: This summer it is necessary to be cautious and always go out with an umbrella!
   17 - 07 - 01: Looking for another thing, I found the Mauritania's (magic) stone  that I used to wear in the seventies
   18 - 07 - 01: We arrive far too early to the Filmhouse to see ' Big Eden' (and... it was a full house).
   19 - 07 - 01: BOOK: Carlos Sanrune has sent me his novel and I have already started to read... and it seems very funny.
   20 - 07 - 01: POSTCARDS FROM SCOTLAND: As if it was not enough with the bagpipe, now there is also the flute.
   21 - 07 - 01: On Saturdays I prefer not to go out because there are far too many people on the street. 
   22 - 07 - 01: When we were going to climb to the top of Arthur's Seat it started to rain. We'll  do it some other time.
   23 - 07 - 01: It only took us 35 minutes to climb to the top of Arthur's Seat and from there you can see the all of Edinburgh !
   24 - 07 - 01: MUSIC: The painting I´m working on ' Vanitas II' (hearingless) has -among others - the music of Janacek, (Strig quartet No1 (Kreutzer) in BBCRadio3)
   25 - 07 - 01: (From ' Something Fishy') We had 'wild salmon' at Pam and Sandy's
   26 - 07 - 01: When we went to the Filmhouse it was so warm that I had to take off my T-shirt in the toilets!!!...
   27 - 07 - 01: Xmas dinner in July? No. Carlos's birthday (in advance)
   28 - 07 - 01: ABERDEEN: After the exhibition of murals from Pompeya, we got lost for 20 minutes in the Hazelhead Park maze.
   29 - 07 - 01: In  Holyrood Park, people fly the more peculiar kites...
   30 - 07 - 01: Under the rain. Before leaving, Carlos cut out a leaf of the Chestnut tree to take it to Spain.
   31 - 07 - 01: Annual apointment with Dr. Paver... for almost twenty years