Tattoo Tuesday: What would you pick?

A leaf, an Ancient Mariner's Compass amd claws on my paw print

Full Moon Monday

The moon likes secrets. And secret things. She lets mysteries bleed into her shadows and leaves us to ask whether they originated from otherworlds, or from our own imaginations. - Charles de Lint

Week Forty - Three

1) Staying calm in situations when I feel an immense amount of rage

2) Random people, like a bus driver or waiter, who are so friendly & vivacious that you are jolted out of the 'London humour' of not really seeing or interacting with strangers.

3) Catching up with good friends who I never seem to see enough of

4) Quinoa

5) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvUTT9nasCw&feature=related

6) We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. — Charles Bukowski

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Man Monday - The Fassbender

In honour of Fass Fest 2011

Autumn

So I found my first conker of the season yesterday and this discovery kick-started a perfect Autumnal Sunday. My brother and I went to a pick-your-own farm and came away with a glut of vegetables and tree fruit; I could not of been happier than when I was swinging my fruit basket and plucking purple plums from heavy tree boughs.

I then returned home (after a very yummy & traditional pub lunch in the depths of the Kentish countryside) to barricade myself in the kitchen to produce a multitude of Autumnal dishes; Pickled chilli beetroot, yellow squash quinoa, fresh corn on the cob and pumpkin muffins.

As I reflected on my very wholesome and joyous day I realised that Autumn has a way of breathing life into me. I get ridiculously excitable at the thought of Autumn colours, wearing boots continually, the seasonable foods on offer and the cold crisp days and I feel revitalised and inspired more so than any other time of year. As my friend Amy said this week 'Fall-after Summer is my Spring-after-Winter'.

A massive shot of gratitude to Autumn this week

Man Friday.... A good end to a bad week

This one goes out to Miss LJ

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship - Oscar Wilde

Want Wednesday

Week Forty-Two

1) Flirty, young men

2) Lashings of eyeliner

3) Poetry; the spoken variety

4) Darkened Streets

5) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwMgAHp7FeA

6) Unless it’s mad, passionate, extraordinary love, it’s a waste of your time. There are too many mediocre things in life. Love shouldn’t be one of them. - Dream for an Insomniac

I want a soulmate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don’t already know, and make me laugh. I don’t care what you look like, just turn me on. And if you can do that, I will follow you on bloody stumps through the snow. I will nibble your mukluks with my own teeth. I will do your windows. I will care about your feelings. Just have something in there. - Henry Rollins  

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