What Kind of Fuckery is this?

"It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you, because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it’s so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn’t come back. You’re left so alone that you can’t explain. Damn, there’s nothing like that, is there?"

— The Portable Henry Rollin

Week Twenty

1) Being warm.

2) Having a day out that makes me feel like a kid again.

3) Finding a great & friendly local butcher.

4) Discussions that lead to knowing someone a wee bit better.

6) And above all , watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you. Because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. -Roal Dahl 

6) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltRwmgYEUr8

7) 

Do not go where the path may lead, 

Go instead where there is no path

and leave a trail.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd_JDrnBMMA

Rabbie Burns Day

Scots Wha Hae

Scots, wha hae wi'Wallace bled,

Scots, wham Bruce has aften led,

Welcome tæ yer gory bed,

Or tæ victorie.

'Now's the day, and now's the hour:

See the front o' battle lour,

See approach proud Edward's power -

Chains and Slavery.

'Wha will be a traitor knave?

Wha will fill a coward's grave?

Wha sæ base as be a slave?

Let him turn and flee.

'Wha, for Scotland's king and law,

Freedom's sword will strongly draw,

Freeman stand, or Freeman fa',

Let him on wi me.

'By Oppression's woes and pains,

By your sons in servile chains!

We will drain our dearest veins,

But they shall be free.

'Lay the proud usurpers low,

Tyrants fall in every foe,

Liberty's in every blow! -

Let us do or dee.

-Robert Burns, 1793

Adventures of the Unemployed - Day 7: At the Zoo

Finish every day and be done with it.

You have done what you could;

Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;

Forget them as soon as you can.

Tomorrow is a new day;

You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit 

to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Happy Friday

"Beautiful, sobbing

high-geared fucking

and then to lie silently

like deer tracks in the

freshly-fallen snow beside

the one you love.

That’s all." 

— Richard Brautigan

Week Nineteen

1) Having the time to watch two movies in a row on a rainy London day.

2) The elderly gentleman who gave his seat up on the tube for me. He exclaimed, 'In my youth we always gave up our seats to beautiful ladies'. Chivalry is alive and well folks.

3) My new flat.

4) Beating a boy at pool after he said he was rather good at it.

5) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS2lovVrT54

6) Lonely people are always up in the middle of the night. 

- Nicole Krauss

7) I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds. 

- Egon Schiele 

Adventures of the Unemployed - Days 5: Crafts

To Sew, to Knit or to Quilt?

La Luna

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

Baking Perfection. Yum Yum.

Adventures of the Unemployed - Days 3 & 4

Heath tastic times

The Quagmire that did not Defeat me

Got very Muddy though

Tea & Words

Time for Scones

D.I.Y

Man reading should be man intensely alive.

 The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. 

 -  Ezra Pound

Adventures of the Unemployed - Days 1 & 2

Best Wrinkled Hands I've ever seen...

On the most dapper of gentlemen.

F&M Still Life

I want one please

Dream Room

Books + Whisky = My kind of Heaven

In theory I like it...