i dream

of this hair. Wiksten.

and, though.. not the greatest cat lover on earth.. i would happily entertain this one for a while. Like a border collie cat.

The long weekend was a weekend of....

Truly disappointing food.. from somewhere usually perfect. I hope it's just a singular blip.

Organising. Which has taken the wind out of my sails. I am almost pathologically resistant to change.

Attempting to choose a front door colour... taking paparazzi shots of well-dressed doors around the area. Red still my favourite.

More food. Surrounded by families, children wet from swimming.





Infinite cups of Bottlegreen Cordial. Cox apple and Plum the firm favourite.



New Shoes. Red patent, buckles, open toes. Love.

Little bits of stitching.

i am obsessed

i have long maintained that i cannot bear artificial strawberry flavour. it goes back to childhood. i was always chocolate milk, jennifer.. strawberry.

now, i can't get enough. strawberry flavoured sweets and the best of all, ribena. oh how i love strawberry ribena.

It reminds me of gum chups. Chupa Chups with a bubble gum centre. Perversely, mum used to let us have one after the dentists. I see they still exist.. albeit alternatively monickered.




eek.

i love these stamps

via www.itsnicethat.com by Jasmine

from

Lunch

Back to Basics- with Jason. Oysters, tuna for Jason, plaice for me...

tomorrow night

hopefully preceeded by a big bowl of pho and some homemade lemonade.

I wish i was gentle

I wish...
that.....
I was kinder.
I did more things with no need for recognition or praise.
That I quietly acheived without fuss.
That I did more for people.
That I fed friends and listened more.
That I never snapped and never had a vicious tongue.

oh my lord, a nest for a man

via Wooster Collective

another desk lunch

oh, it's so yum.

a year ago

Oh Barcelona, I love you.

one of my favourite sights in all of the world.

I still find it exciting. To see this little message. Hoping it's special, sweet, or from someone faraway.

This summer, I vow, I will cook new and exciting things.

I will bake bread and make dough, I will make jugs of homemade lemonade and great vats of sorbet. I will photograph it and put it on this blog, yes, I will.

All via Tastespotting

Madeleines in Manhattan

I am reading this... It makes me want to make these....

And, as if by magic, Tastespotting is awash with Madeleines, just as I'm reading it. Everything is connected.

wardrobe heaven

The wardrobes are finished and I feel like I live in a new house, it's WONDERFUL. The room echoes with space, and my head feels clearer. Perfect.

mackerel and hasselbacks and frilly sandals too...

Walls

An abandoned squash court in Dorset. So calm and cool considering the frenetic activity it must have seen in it's day.

Yay, she got the parcel

Oh, I wish we could do this this summer....

Happy 30th Birthday Sister Jen

I really hope the package has got to you. If it hasn't, and you want to know what your present was... so that you at least get the feeling that you are getting something from me... you can look at miss hill and you will see it, right there.
Have a wonderful day. I love you.
xxxx

cute as cute can be

by Erin Tyner.

a week in the sanitorium

i am not well. i have bronchitis. it's horrid.

however, on the up side, i am being nursed back to health by my boyfriend's mother in her sanitorium of cats, tea, boiled eggs, chatter, books, magazines and the best bit... beautiful objects and sweet things on every surface, wall and floor.