1. Noah and the Whale.
They make such beautiful music. I love '2 Bodies 1 Heart' for the
sentiment but also because it sounds like it's sung by a Seasame Street
character. However, '5 Years Time' never fails to make me smile. And want to
take up the ukelale (at least my sausage fingers would have a chance of
reaching all the strings).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRX5kH6IrkY
2. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
I don't have time to read much anymore. I've given up reading new books for
now because I start something and by the time I have chance to pick it up again
I've forgotten what's gone before. Instead, I'm reading old favourites so that
I at least have a chance of keeping up with the plot. Reading anything by
Margaret Atwood always provides an escape. She has the ability to transport you
to a whole other time and place in an instant.
“Mother might be resting, or doing good deeds elsewhere, but Reenie was
always there. She’d scoop us up and sit us on the white enamel kitchen
table, alongside the pie dough she was rolling out or the chicken she was
cutting up or the fish she was gutting, and give us a lump of brown sugar to
get us to close our mouths. Tell me where it hurts, she’d say. Stop
howling. Just calm down and show me where.
But some people can’t tell where it hurts. They can’t calm down. They can’t
ever stop howling.”
from The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood pg. 2
3. Sweet Potato and Corn Chowder
Quick, tasty and much better for you than a bag of peanut M & Ms. I'm sure
I would have developed scurvy in the last 6 months, were it not for Covent
Garden Soups.
4.My new/old birdcage
I don't care what you all say - I like it. Yes, it is hideously
impractical. Yes, it would never and will never hold a bird. Yes, it cost far
too much money. Money that I don't have. But it is pweeeety. And it fits into
the over-arching vision of what my future home will look like.
In the meantime it sits on my bedside table taking up far too much room and
standing out like a sore thumb. It does cheer me up though.
5. Johnny Flynn.
I think I'm turning into a bit of a folkie in my old age.
But Johnny Flynn is folkie who happens to look like Billy Kennedy from
Neighbours. Maudlin, hot and plays the guitar. Who could ask for anything more?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I2hzMCiNH4
