One week to go!!

Oh boy oh boy oh boy! This time next week we will be on our way to Sydney! Hooray!

This song below used to be on a television ad campaign when I was a child promoting Australian tourism and since then it has always reminded me of Australia

Françoise

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Isn't Francoise Hardy just stunning?  I love the simplicity of her style.  Can you tell I'm loving bangs right now? 

Happy Monday!

I'd do anything to have a longer weekend.  We had nice time travelling up the coast, we stopped and had a snack at a beach side bar, then went to a friends farm to cuddle their new puppies (10 in total! so cute).
Last night we watched movies (Raising Arizona and Zelig), and then this morning I work up early in a wave of anxiety.  It took hours to get to sleep and it was really unpleasant -  you know that feeling when you feel like you've forgotten something really important or done something terrible and been found out.

Some of those feelings were based in reality ( worrying about overdue parking tickets and fines, registering the car, forgetting to sign a form at work, worrying about running out of money on our holiday to Sydney) and others were blown out of all proportion which I think is due to being partly dreaming and the anxiety culminating into something bigger than it needed to be.  I hate that feeling.  Recently my normal anxious disposition has gotten worse, particularly over things which usually don't concern me or matter that much ( I hyperventilated over buying hot rollers! ).

Things are looking better in the day light. I embrace relaxation and rational thought!

In other news,  wouldn't it be great to live on a houseboat?

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Aren't they so beautiful? I feel more relaxed just looking at them.

Happy Weekend!

Hooray!  It's the weekend and I'm so thankful.  Right now Adam is at the supermarket getting things to make Buckwheat Pancakes for breakfast and I'm going to brew some coffee.

The sun is shining but the air is crisp.  This weekend is pretty relaxed for us, we are traveling up the coast a little bit for a friends graduation so we'll make it into a mini road trip and sing along in the car.

Photo by me

Photo by me

Photo by me - this is Gnorman the Gnome. I made him and he travels in the car with us. 

He always looks a little queasy. 

That's us!

Have a fantastic weekend everyone!  What are you all up to, and what are you looking forward to over the next couple of days?

xx

I'm not ready

It's getting cold again, and it's too early.
We had a miserable excuse for a summer here, with only about 6 weeks of intermittent warmth and sunshine.  At least that's what it felt like.
And now, the cold has returned.

I need some nourishment today.  I want hot tea and coffee, a warm bed, an open fire, warm porridge with milk and brown sugar, toast with jam, socks, a good book, hot whiskey and lemon.

 

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I also took a completely illegitimate and undeserved  sick day. I'm in bed with a hot water bottle and I'm going to take advantage of the fact that Adam is at work by watching a shameless chick flick in all it's glory.

Also, here is a song I really love. It's a Radiohead cover by Gillian Welch.  I loves me a bit of alt-country.

This Little Bird

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I love Marianne Faithfull's style.  What an icon.  I found a copy of her autobiography while thrifting over a year ago, and it's been sitting on my nightstand unread ever since.  It's on my to-do list.  These photos make me want to get bangs and make shift dresses.

To the beach

How long must I dream
To Helen


Above the strip of beach a full moon
Skewers the Northern sky,
Just beyond the city's phosphorescent
Fingers of light.

From the cabin behind the dunes
Roy Orbison's soul is making
The silver darkness shiver & gleam.
His sweet grieving song mingles
In the grumbling tide.

On the edge of the water
Where the sand is firm an old man
In a suit with no shoes dances
A foxtrot alone.
As the tide draws & drags his feet
He places his hands where his partner's
Hips would be & hold her steady & firm
For one long gentle kiss


- Rae Desmond Jones

from 'Blow Out' Island 2009

All images above are via Aquabumps, which is an amazing website, the photographer is an astonishingly talented man Eugene Tan. We will be putting it on our list to visit the actual gallery in Bondi Beach while we are there. Truly incredible.