Week Seven.

1) When you get a recommendation for a book or new band, and it just blows your mind.

2) Utterly romantic: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM0A_yg8XjU
3) Long leather gloves, that when I put on, make me feel like Grace Kelly.

4) When you meet a new person and it feels like you have known them a lifetime. And all of a sudden you feel entirely comfortable in this stranger's company -its exhilarating.

5) 'So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: 

who is the happier man, 

he who braved the storm of life and lived, 

or he who has stayed securely on the shore and merely existed?"

- Hunter S Thompson.

6)Pinot Noir

7) Scotland

Week Six: Late Again

1. Sleeping with my window open, even when its minus degree weather outside.

2. The success that comes with finishing a huge event.

3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3gbK8I4_dY

4. The first day of the winter season when I eat porridge with my homemade compote.

5. Boys in black shirts.

6.  A few can touch the magic string, 

And noisy Fame is proud to win them, 

Alas for those that never sing,

But die with all their music in them.

-The Voiceless: Oliver Wendell Holmes.

7. The beauty that is all around me - when I take the time to look:

Week Five: A little Late

1. You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book...or you take a trip...and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.

-Anais Nin.

2. Chai Tea Lattes

3. Pumpkins - I even love how the word feels when I say it out loud.

4. Any opportunity to don a fancy dress costume.

5. HALLOWEEN!

6. The Sunday Papers

7. Black & White photography

Week Four

1. Mr. Calum Nielsen: bestest travel buddy ever :

2. Finding a new coffee shop that you know you will return to over and over because the coffee is just perrrrrfect.

3. When gig tickets arrive in the post.

4. When you have a unexpected conversation with someone and you see them in a whole new light.

5. Pickles

6. Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings

7. That I loved & was loved by this man:

Week Three

1. Getting a letter - it is just so very rare these days.

2. Going to a gig and getting totally swept away by the music, the band and the sweaty, dancin' fever. All hail Deer Tick.

3. That when my first boyfriend cheated on me, that the experience did not ruin me for all the rest.

4. That most days, I get a kick out of doing my job. 

5.  Mr Ryan Bingham's Tom Wait esque country voice and his lyrics:

Your Body Aches

Playing your guitar and sweating out the hate

The days and the nights all feel the same

Whiskey has been, a thorn in your side

and it doesn't forget

The highway that calls for your heart inside.

6.  The anticipation of a journey on the horizon... I see Dublin town.

7. That I asked you out and you said yes:

Week Two

1. The boy from bus 37, last Friday night, who made my week with his flirty smiles.

2. Tea Pigs

3. The days when it is hot enough to swim in the Ladies Pond on Hampstead Heath.

4. A new book

5. Pink Lemonade

6. Getting the upstairs, front seat on any London Bus

7. My little Bro:

Week One

1. That I get to wear boots every single day for the next 6 months - should I choose to.

2. Apple Cider from Wilson Farms, MA

3. The Ship Song lyrics by Nick Cave:

Come sail your ships around me

And burn your bridges down

We make a little history, baby

Every time you come around

4. The low hanging, perfectly shaped crescent moon I saw on Sunday night.

5. When Pacey painted that damn wall.

6. Pacey/Joshua Jackson in general.

7. The first leaves of Autumn on the ground