January 2012
2 posts
She came down from her bedroom with her heavy blonde fringe clipped off her face. We all tried not to comment at this some what drastic and desperate bid for a change in appearance - so ate breakfast in silence. And I kissed the bald forehead as it tried to run out the door and I prayed the next morning the fringe would be back and the attitude reduce but it never reappeared. And there were a lot...
Yes!! →
December 2011
3 posts
'Do you believe in God, Arthur?'
I said, eating the last piece of sponge. ‘Do I believe in an old man in the clouds with a white beard judging us mortals with a moral code from one to ten? Good Lord no, my sweet Elly, I do not! I would have been cast out from this life years ago with my tatty history. Do I believe in a mystery; the unexplained phenomenon that is life itself? The greater something that illuminates...
“I divide my life into two parts. Not really a before and after, more as if they...”
– Sarah Winman - When God Was a Rabbit
The world is still big →
October 2011
1 post
Slowly
beginning to believe in karma.
September 2011
5 posts
I carry it in my heart.
Here is the deepest secret nobody knows, here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of the tree called life, which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide and this is the wonder thats keeping the stars apart. I carry your heart, I carry it in my heart.
Squeeze my heart and clutch my soul, because only...
August 2011
5 posts
I woke at six today to get in the car and drive my mother and I to a HUGE antiques market on Kempton Racecourse. Antiques are the only thing that I will in fact drag my lazy bee-hind out of bed for at such an unholy hour and my god was it worth it. Think, italian market/flee market/antiques roadshow/portobello road and you have this beauty. From taxidermy (porn) to knock off french romantic...
This is not the correct way to make any sort of...
Find a cause to fight for, find something to believe in. Ruining peoples livelihoods and personal possessions, with nothing but opportunism and pure criminality in mind is completely immoral. We have no reason to fear you.
Thursday's child
don't sweat it
young women you’re going to be an old woman someday, don’t worry about it, don’t sweat it, don’t worry about getting older, every era, every era builds character
July 2011
3 posts
“On that trip I learnt something very important. Escape through travel works. ...”
– Alex Garland
You will not get anywhere rushing, and you won’t be satisfied if you continue to search. You need to be content, not just with yourself but with your situation, your family, your friends. We can’t keep searching for something that’s just not going to happen, we need to stop - and then maybe, with the help of what ever infinite power there is, then we’ll be found.
June 2011
3 posts
Just find time to be, just simply be.
THIS IS OUR SUMMER WITH OUR DOORSTEP INVITING OUR FRIENDS
It’s going to be beautiful
May 2011
7 posts
WANDER LUST
and I’ve just put the deposit down on a flat. Something slightly ironic about finally having the funds to travel and not being able to… I’ve been looking at welcome mats and immersing myself in sheets of printed fabrics to throw over moth ridden sofa’s. I came back to the surrey hills to finalize all my work and ended up sitting in the sun with a bottle of wine and some...
“I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr
April 2011
7 posts
“There’s a truth that’s deeper than experience. It’s beyond...”
– Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
I need a few weeks away from home. Fresh salty air, water lapping at the boat, ropes hitting against the mast and gulls crying.
“I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar...”
March 2011
11 posts
That’s pretty ethereal;
Before I always felt like a figment of their imagination, of yours, mine, as though I didn’t really exist. Now it’s all coming together, now it’s all solid.
Satellite devastation →
Everything is giving me the bug lately.
Whether its the idiotic idea I’d get through a book like Shantaram without wanting to flee this second, picking up strange old copies of the jungle book in Moss Books or, stumbling across blogs like this http://googandwinnie.blogspot.com/ by a couple called David and Sarah. India is now in my blood. I find myself talking to near perfect strangers about my unplanned, ill funded,...
JOIN US →
It’s just around the corner and I can feel it. I put my life in five boxes last weekend, and adding that to the three I’ve got here - it’s safe to say I haven’t got much. But I don’t need much for the next few months, I need to work and save and keep and loose and tomorrow I’ll be able to do everything I want to. Needless to say I’m doing a great job at...
FYI - 17 days until British Summer Time
February 2011
3 posts
You were better than whatever came before
WatchBeautiful, so much good work.
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