February 2009
1 post
Life + lyrics
This post has been a few weeks in the making, but two train journeys today have helped to crystallise it. As often on a solo train journey, I set about into a wistful and thoughtful frame of mind. Not quite melancholy, but lots of gazing out of the window in a wondering kind of way, and indulging in my favourite pasttime of examining my own thoughts. And, as usual, I decided that the perfect...
January 2009
6 posts
My new favourite shop →
I just bought 2 pairs of Pipnstuff earrings and they are beautiful
I don't know what's odder, the cute little horses... →
Mob benefits
It comes to something when even the Yakuza have to claim benefits to get by:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/20/japan-gangsters-benefits
There was a similar article in the Guardian Weekend about the demise of the Mafia in the US. Seems it’s not easy being a hardened crim in these desperate times.
Books I have read recently (to go with my all-new...
I’ve had a bit of a spate of reading again, after struggling for a few months with tiredness and obsession with listening to music on the tube instead. I *can* do the two things at once but then I don’t concentrate enough on either! Reading is a serious business you know ;-)
Here is what I has been reading:
American Pastoral - Phillip Roth
Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins
1000...
Basket meals
Thinking about the ‘concept’ of meals-in-a-basket following a conversation last night. You rarely see basket meals in pubs anymore although with the resurgence of Weatherspoons (thanks, in large part, to the 99p pint) they may make some kind of comeback. Actually, Weatherspoons never really went away, amongst the student populace and certainly not the normal rest-of-the-country...
December 2008
6 posts
Something I have learnt today
Sometimes the simplest of explanations really are the right ones…
Ooi doon't looike it Daaad
Today I travelled into the fens to visit my hometown, Downham Market. Although I now think of Cambridge to be ‘home’ when I visit my parents, Downham is my original hometown. It’s always tricky for me to go back to Downham as there are a lot of contradictory feelings mixed up in there. For a long time I didn’t go back at all because I couldn’t face it. Now I’m...
Monday 9pm
Watching Festive Q1 with Snave and drinking nice wine. Missing my baby already and it’s not even Christmas yet…x
Silly Horse has met her match! →
BAD HORSE!
Silly Horse has been bad and has not posted any updates for yonks. Sorry about that.
This weekend I will be mostly (I hope): enjoying my new duvet, supping ale here http://www.greenwichunion.com/menus.html and eating lots here http://www.theprovidores.co.uk/prv.html. All in the company of my favourite other Horse :)
Roll on Saturday!
November 2008
7 posts
Going to see this lot tonight. I am a big fan of... →
'Pocketed' - Ramona Herdman
We touch fingers slightly too long
handing a glass. The hairs on his arm
mesh like breath in the hairs of mine
as we lean drunken.
I sit in the quiet sour boysmell,
tile bench between us sliced
exact as a pew’s ribbon,
a separating inch of leather.
We touch eyes too long.
Giddy as the plummet
into lager, I count the ticks
in his iris, yellow-brown:
ridges in a boiled...
Wed 5th November
Just had my first gingerbread latte of winter, and it pleases me greatly! What with that and the US elections, it’s been a good couple of days all round. I am easily pleased, it seems :-)
One of my new favourite places to eat...might have... →
Flight of the Conchords
I’ve just discovered this show, it’s genius! Best quote so far:
“I’m not crying, it’s just raining on my face…”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_of_the_Conchords
“The true has no windows. Nowhere does the true look out to the universe.”
– Benjamin (re-quoting someone else…Goethe I think…all to do with monads)
October 2008
14 posts
Joni Mitchell - 'Willy'
Willy is my child, he is my father I would be his lady all my life He says he’d love to live with me But for an ancient injury That has not healed He said I feel once again Like I gave my heart too soon He stood looking thru the lace At the face on the conquered moon And counting all the cars up the hill And the stars on my window sill There are still more reasons why I love him Willy is my...
A project for the winter :) →
Social media guru →
This is just simply AMAZING →
Things Silly Horse is liking at the moment (in no...
Sunny autumn days
Hefner - ‘Christian Girls’
Cashew nuts
Unexpected presents
Yo Sushi half price offer
Pictures of the Harvest weekender
All things Russian (more imagined than real)
Composing mental playlists and song lines
Granny Smiths
Carmex
Seeing people bundled up in scarf and hat combos
bobbooks.co.uk
Just watched this - very good although flawed in... →
Been talking and thinking about Levinas and got... →
Thursday morning tiredness
All I want to do today is be in my duvet listening to Joni Mitchell with big bowls of soup and chunky bread (maybe some kind of garlicky sourdough), reading the papers and dreaming of places far away and being a romantic heroine in some kind of postmodern costume drama where all the dashing men fall at my feet and read me poetry on the lawn at midnight.
‘If in doubt, shop’ seems to be my new motto.
September 2008
43 posts
Zanzibar for New Year anyone? →
Woe is me →
Sunday night
Watching Match of the Day, wine in hand, still full after blow out at The Diner earlier. Was warm, sunny and mellow (to steal an apt word). Sundays are good but just too short. Earlier had a good cry at Tess of the Durbevilles, always a sucker for a wistful, overblown costume drama.
10.10pm: Thinking about - and writing - poetry. I always write better when I’m in a weird mood; happiness makes me lazy.
Music I have been listening to of late (ongoing...
1. Cat Power
2. Hefner - ‘Best of’ album - makes me happy :)
3. Scott Walker - especially ‘Jackie’
4. Dubstep Allstars - all volumes, still
5. Joy Division
6. Random hip hop-y stuff in the office
7. Arab Strap - Amor Veneris - more atmospheric and heartbreaking than I remembered
8. Sufjan Stevens