NaNoWriMo: Day 3 (Bad, bad day)

Migraines: 1 (big fat mumma of a headache!)

Analgesia: (almost) anything that came to hand

Daily word count: zero

Total word count: 3167 :((

NaNoWriMo: Day 2

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Crazy Mum: 1

Coffee: 2 mugs

Tea: 2 cups

Coke Zero: 1/2 can

Baskets of washing on line: 3

Baskets of washing brought in: 2 1/2

Lunches packed: 4

Daily word Count: 1626

Total Word Count: 3167

Day two writing frenzy over with.

See you tomorrow...

NaNoWriMo: Day 1



Daily word Count: 1541

Total Word Count: 1541

Day one writing frenzy over with.

See you tomorrow... 

Ouch!

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I like dental visits. Usually. Except for yesterday's visit. As a result of breaking a molar tooth late last week I was booked in to see an oral surgeon. He recommended extraction. Thirty minutes and three stitches later, I walked out, my mouth packed with gauze. Bless pain killers!

I am spending today on the couch, sipping luke-warm tea, coffee and soup from a straw. Writing this through a haze of codeine-induced stupor. I hope I will be okay by the time Nanowrimo and Nanowrimo-Lame-Oh (as hosted by the inspirational Andrea from acatofimpossiblecolour) starts.

Now though, back to sleep.

Until next time...

The Aphrodite of Milos

  

You have seen her many times before, to be sure, but, to see her in person (in the marble :)) was unforgettable. I went there twice in one day and then the following day to absorb the beauty that was hand-crafted by an Ancient Greek sculptor named Alexandros of Antioch. 

I finally scored a headset recording on the second visit and learned that this goddess of love and beauty is almost seven feet tall.

She was found by a peasant in the ancient city of Milos in the Aegean Islands in 1820. A French officer figured she would be an important work of art and started to organise her removal. But the peasant refused and wanted money, so he sold her to a priest who wanted to gift her to someone in Constantinople. She was eventually given to King Henry XVIII who handed her over to the Louvre museum, where she resides today.

 Her arms, which were found and verified as original, could have been reattached but they deliberately weren't. This was to keep the public interested in the mystery they had formulated about her. 

Also, as she was never meant to be viewed from the back, she was never given detail seen on the rest of her. However, she would have been fully decked out in jewellery (which was likely to have been stolen) and she was possibly painted as well.

Her left arm was probably raised at eye level holding an apple and her right arm curved loosely around her waist holding up her drapery.

Beautiful indeed.