Wish List

Au Revior Simone, Still Night Still Light

Bat for Lashes, Two Suns

The most expensive jeans I've ever considered buying

Strawberry blonde hair (photo)

To re-visit Dartmoor (photo)

A pet pied wagtail (photo)

Living on the edge

Home made scone with jam and a cup of earl grey. After work treat.
Accompanied by slightly blurry photos.

Unbelievable love

Is she flaring her nose?

Slain
By your zirconium smile
I was slain
By your olivine eyes
Slain
I was lying in piles
Hoping shovels would cast me

Furnaces burn everlasting
Black tattoos of you onto me
Furnaces burn everlasting
Black tattoos

Burn
Brand my memory
Black
A tattoo of you
Wash
Me with your mouth
Brackish bright water from your eyes
I'll homing pigeon fly
To hover by your window white and shy
Homing pigeon fly
To hover by



Spill
My ashes to the wind
Ghosts
Can gather what they've found
Now
We can struggle in the web
We can struggle
With white spider stars coming down
And night blowing black from the ground

Magnetized, Laura Viers

I come bearing biscuits

"scoff, scoff, scoff" - oops, they're all gone.

Despatches from the Font-line

@ Roche aux Sabots@ 95.2
Check out my fingertips - mantling on a crimp.

Recent times

Looking gloomy at 'Flatworld' at Baslow in the Peak District
Ernie doesn't like posing for photos...

...so he pretends to be asleep

New trainers!

My climbing boots 'Rockstars' by E volve - incredibly small and painful! Mean ass edging power.

The boyfriend at 'the unit'. Some friends built this climbing wall in an industrial unit. It's amazing.

My warm up route consists of holds named: moby, jug, rogan josh, hers, yours to name, bottom and lava lamp.

Blanket inversion - Roaches, Staffordshire.

Some photos of the amazing cloud inversion (where atmospheric conditions mean the cloud is really low, like fog, and you can get above it and look down on it) we saw on NYE 08, as promised.

It was -6 oC in the freezing fog (the cloud inversion) but gorgeous and sunny all day above the clouds.

Snow day!!!!

We're having the best snow here for years and years. Chaos! Cancelled buses! Schools closed! Sledging! Snowball fights!

I still have to go to work though :o(
This is what my journey looked like this morning.

tyre tracks in the snow

bye the time I got to work I was plastered in the white stuff :o)

Holy camera goodness batman

Digital "polaroid" camera.

Wow.

I bet it's incredibly expensive to buy & run.

But it'd be nice to have one.

http://www.zink.com/tomy-xiao

What I wore 28/11/08

original tank girl boots!
click image to enlarge

Week in pictures

I spent three nights this week trying to fix the Subtext website (at the moment I'm still unsuccessful), Claire came round and kept my company one evening - she made felt badges while I scratched my head and struggled with coding.

Went out on Wednesday to see the fireworks at Nottingham castle. Quick drink in the pub before hand.

Unfortunately we didn't get tickets in time & it sold out. Turns out free fireworks are a good deal better!

The weather has been so cloudy and miserable all week - hooray then that the sun is shining today. This is my view from work - the weird spidery reflection is the spider plants in my window.

What I wore 30/10/08

Reversible hat: 'Columbia', from the shop where my boyfriend works

Red coat: H&M a few years ago

Black skirt: a shop I can't remember the name of in NYC

Leopard print tights: a concession in the Broadmarsh Centre, Nottingham

Boots: handmade for me by Green Shoes

Cassette tape bag: Lunacy boutique

Stripey bag: new, from a stall at Camden market

This week in pictures

This week I surveyed a walk in South Nottinghamshire, that includes the ruins of St Marys Church, near Cropwell Bishop.
Went climbing in the Peak District.

Spotted some house sparrows on the bush in the garden.

And went down to London to visit my super friend Sarah for her birthday, and to go the the Women's Library to see Subtext in an exhibition about women's magazines!

Fridge-ID

I've heard it said that what's in your fridge can reflect how you live your life, but I think this makes it quite clear that what's on the outside can give an insight too - exhibit A: my fridge in all its chaotic glory.

Including:

• a diagram for the hairdresser explaining that I do not want triangular hair any longer.
  'activist', as described in a Patagonia advert.
• a newspaper story on surfing rats
• a message from the Salvation army - which I took out of context because I think it applies whether you're religious or not (full disclosure, I'm not)
• New York cab magnet
• assorted postcards
• (badly) photoshopped image of my boyfriend ice climbing the Eiffel Tower
• a watercolour that looks like a vagina
• a newspaper clipping about a friend who moved to NYC to be a butler.

What does your fridge look like? A place to paste up favourite things you've found, notes and magnetic poetry, or clean, sleek, metallic and minimalist?