Day: 16 April 2012

When I travelled to England in late February I was surprised and relieved at once that it did not rain a bit. It did not occur to me that something drastic may be coming, but now I hear in the news that drought has spread over a good part of the UK. It’s not just the traditionally dry and sunny East Coast, but the South West and Midlands, too. In fact, such counties as Staffordshire, Derbyshire, and West Midlands are affected, so it will come as no surprise if Manchester and Liverpool will suffer the same fate. The Environmental Agency only warns against the water shortages, and I hope that forests and gardens remain intact. Had it been in Russia, we’d already be bracing up for turf and forest fires.

Break Dance Routine at Photo-Expo 2012

As for Moscow, the snow is gradually – finally! – disappearing, it is warm enough for me to wear a lighter coat, and as I am writing this, the weather is dry. Today I am wearing grey, green, and brown colours, which is quite a vernal combination.

Over the past month I’ve been to many events; I’m also attending a workshop in Literary Translation organised by two well-known Russian translators. There are at least two days a week when I don’t get home until midnight, and I still manage to do good work during the day. That’s why, I guess, I so heartily responded to the photo I found in a randomly selected LiveJournal post. It is a pic of a guy performing a break dance routine, – and even if art and life don’t imitate one another here, life is definitely breaking all the rules of the physical world. And that’s art.