...I find myself cooking whilst singing
"Fuck, I love pesto. I just really love it."
to the tune of Tim Minchin's Boobs song.
Thursday, 8 September 2011
Monday, 29 August 2011
A Walk To Forget
It's 1am. I want to walk.
I don't know where I'd go...
...but that's hardly the point.
We never truly know where we're walking to, only what we're walking away from.
Why is walking away from this so difficult? It's only walking.
I don't know where I'd go...
...but that's hardly the point.
We never truly know where we're walking to, only what we're walking away from.
Why is walking away from this so difficult? It's only walking.
Sunday, 14 August 2011
100 Simple Pleasures - Part 1
001 - Watching Ninja Warrior
002 - Having a nice cup of tea made for me
003 - Being appreciated as a good friend
004 - Having a slightly tipsy, in-depth conversation with a stranger
005 - When one of my cats settles on my lap without being called
006 - Talking to my cousin Aaron without humorously insulting banter
007 - Talking to my cousin Aaron with humorously insulting banter
008 - Waking up early and realising I can have a huge lie in
009 - My LOTR extended edition boxset
010 - Dinosaurs. Anything to do with dinosaurs
011 - When people tell me I'm good at knitting/crochet
012 - Doing the cat-Sellotape-paws dance with Cath and Drew
013 - Alex fucking Butterworth <3
014 - Feeling really comfortable in my own home with amazing housemates
015 - "Hugging it out"
016 - Come Dine With Me
017 - Having a lucky number. It's 17
018 - Starting to feel like my life is coming back together again
019 - My Elekk in WoW
020 - Dipli
021 - Steggy
022 - Memories of the Caribbean
023 - Cwtching up in bed and watching a film
024 - Sheldon Cooper
025 - Retail therapy
026 - Getting enough sleep
027 - An ice cold pint of Coke on a hot day
028 - Tanning really easily
029 - Knowing an answer on University Challenge
030 - TotallyLooksLike.com
031 - Geeky boys
032 - Nerdy boys
033 - Eccentric Englishmen
034 - Pokémon
035 - Ginger cats
036 - Ginger Katts
037 - Doing the fork in the garbage disposal
038 - Simon from Yogscast
039 - Doing the Creep
040 - Whipping my hair
041 - When Jonny DJs at Clwb
042 - A quiz
043 - In-jokes with Rachel
044 - PORK
045 - Male friends who never have been, and never will be, more than that.
046 - Anything written by Graham Linehan
047 - Watching AbFab
048 - Getting into a cycle of Friends quotations
049 - Paddy's Hobbin and Dobbin joke
050 - Being serenaded by Ana Catris
002 - Having a nice cup of tea made for me
003 - Being appreciated as a good friend
004 - Having a slightly tipsy, in-depth conversation with a stranger
005 - When one of my cats settles on my lap without being called
006 - Talking to my cousin Aaron without humorously insulting banter
007 - Talking to my cousin Aaron with humorously insulting banter
008 - Waking up early and realising I can have a huge lie in
009 - My LOTR extended edition boxset
010 - Dinosaurs. Anything to do with dinosaurs
011 - When people tell me I'm good at knitting/crochet
012 - Doing the cat-Sellotape-paws dance with Cath and Drew
013 - Alex fucking Butterworth <3
014 - Feeling really comfortable in my own home with amazing housemates
015 - "Hugging it out"
016 - Come Dine With Me
017 - Having a lucky number. It's 17
018 - Starting to feel like my life is coming back together again
019 - My Elekk in WoW
020 - Dipli
021 - Steggy
022 - Memories of the Caribbean
023 - Cwtching up in bed and watching a film
024 - Sheldon Cooper
025 - Retail therapy
026 - Getting enough sleep
027 - An ice cold pint of Coke on a hot day
028 - Tanning really easily
029 - Knowing an answer on University Challenge
030 - TotallyLooksLike.com
031 - Geeky boys
032 - Nerdy boys
033 - Eccentric Englishmen
034 - Pokémon
035 - Ginger cats
036 - Ginger Katts
037 - Doing the fork in the garbage disposal
038 - Simon from Yogscast
039 - Doing the Creep
040 - Whipping my hair
041 - When Jonny DJs at Clwb
042 - A quiz
043 - In-jokes with Rachel
044 - PORK
045 - Male friends who never have been, and never will be, more than that.
046 - Anything written by Graham Linehan
047 - Watching AbFab
048 - Getting into a cycle of Friends quotations
049 - Paddy's Hobbin and Dobbin joke
050 - Being serenaded by Ana Catris
Tuesday, 9 August 2011
Wednesday, 27 July 2011
Beautiful Photography
Just wanted to share some of my favourite photography from the last few months.
A mother comforting her son in Concord, Alabama, near his house which was entirely destroyed by a tornado. Photograph: Jeff Roberts/AP
Royal wedding celebrations in the Victoria memorial fountain outside Buckingham Palace. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty
Lightning over Kathmandu. Photograph: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
Lightning over Portland Harbour and Chesil Beach on Dorset's Jurassic Coast. Photograph: Justin Turner/Dorset Media Service
Lava shooting from an Icelandic volcano as photographer Skarphedinn Thrainsson stands nearby (he regularly risks injury to get his pictures) Photograph: Skarphedinn Thrainsson
The Royal Festival Hall stage in london filled with grand pianos from Lang Lang Inspires - the Chinese piano star plays alongside 100 outstanding young British pianists. Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA
Believe it or not this is actually a photograph. It's of the flooded rice fields of Laohuzui in Yuanyang, Yunnan province, China reflecting the sky. The Hani people have grown rice here for more than 700 years. The blue strips are vegetable greenhouses; the black, rows of trees and water embankments. Photograph: George Doupas/Solent News
The skies above southern Chile the day after an eruption in the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcanic chain. An average of 230 earthquakes an hour were recorded in the region before the eruption, which blew an ash cloud six miles high and produced storms of volcanic lightning. Photograph: Francisco Negroni/AP
Chelsea pensioners at the annual Founders Day Parade at the Royal hospital in London. Photograph: Max Mumby
The Olympic stadium in east London as all the arena lights are turned on simultaneously for the first time. Photograph: Jason Hawkes/Barcroft Media
People walking in to a familiar sight at Glastonbury Festival. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA
A pigeon at a fountain in Madrid. Photograph: Dominique Faget/AFP/Getty Images
Gay Pride parade participants march down Regent Street. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA
A group of crested black macaques at a national park in Indonesia turn the tables on wildlife photographer David Slater. Photograph: Wild Monkey/David Slater/Caters News
Artist David Mach's most recent piece, Golgotha, made from coat hangers and pinned to steel girders. Photograph: Rosie Hallam/Barcroft Media
A calf leaps over revellers in the bullring after a running of the bulls at the San Fermin fiesta in Pamplona, Spain. Photograph: Ivan Aguinaga/AP
Samantha Langsdale plays at the 27th Underwater Music Festival off Florida. About 500 musical divers took part. Photograph: Dan Burton/Barcroft Media
Sydney Truba, 11, participates in Mud Day, when 75,000 litres of water are mixed with 180 tonnes of topsoil to create a giant sludge bath in Michigan. Photograph: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images
Lucien Freud, who recently died aged 88, working in his Holland Park studio in 2005. David Dawson, Freud's long-time assistant, artist and photographer, took the picture. Photograph: David Dawson
A mother comforting her son in Concord, Alabama, near his house which was entirely destroyed by a tornado. Photograph: Jeff Roberts/AP
Royal wedding celebrations in the Victoria memorial fountain outside Buckingham Palace. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty
Lightning over Kathmandu. Photograph: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
Lightning over Portland Harbour and Chesil Beach on Dorset's Jurassic Coast. Photograph: Justin Turner/Dorset Media Service
Lava shooting from an Icelandic volcano as photographer Skarphedinn Thrainsson stands nearby (he regularly risks injury to get his pictures) Photograph: Skarphedinn Thrainsson
The Royal Festival Hall stage in london filled with grand pianos from Lang Lang Inspires - the Chinese piano star plays alongside 100 outstanding young British pianists. Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA
Believe it or not this is actually a photograph. It's of the flooded rice fields of Laohuzui in Yuanyang, Yunnan province, China reflecting the sky. The Hani people have grown rice here for more than 700 years. The blue strips are vegetable greenhouses; the black, rows of trees and water embankments. Photograph: George Doupas/Solent News
The skies above southern Chile the day after an eruption in the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcanic chain. An average of 230 earthquakes an hour were recorded in the region before the eruption, which blew an ash cloud six miles high and produced storms of volcanic lightning. Photograph: Francisco Negroni/AP
Chelsea pensioners at the annual Founders Day Parade at the Royal hospital in London. Photograph: Max Mumby
The Olympic stadium in east London as all the arena lights are turned on simultaneously for the first time. Photograph: Jason Hawkes/Barcroft Media
People walking in to a familiar sight at Glastonbury Festival. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA
A pigeon at a fountain in Madrid. Photograph: Dominique Faget/AFP/Getty Images
Gay Pride parade participants march down Regent Street. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA
A group of crested black macaques at a national park in Indonesia turn the tables on wildlife photographer David Slater. Photograph: Wild Monkey/David Slater/Caters News
Artist David Mach's most recent piece, Golgotha, made from coat hangers and pinned to steel girders. Photograph: Rosie Hallam/Barcroft Media
A calf leaps over revellers in the bullring after a running of the bulls at the San Fermin fiesta in Pamplona, Spain. Photograph: Ivan Aguinaga/AP
Samantha Langsdale plays at the 27th Underwater Music Festival off Florida. About 500 musical divers took part. Photograph: Dan Burton/Barcroft Media
Sydney Truba, 11, participates in Mud Day, when 75,000 litres of water are mixed with 180 tonnes of topsoil to create a giant sludge bath in Michigan. Photograph: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images
Lucien Freud, who recently died aged 88, working in his Holland Park studio in 2005. David Dawson, Freud's long-time assistant, artist and photographer, took the picture. Photograph: David Dawson
Tuesday, 26 July 2011
When you're part-Italian...
...a quick midnight snack is a huge bowl of pasta with cubes of succulent fried chicken, homemade pesto made with leaves from your own basil plant, juicy warm olives and a sprinkling of parmesan on top.
I love my heritage.
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