Fly Away Home

Yesterday there was an out of the blue taste of summer. Suddenly everyone was in t shirts and shorts and I could actually justifiably pull out my old ray bans.

It made me excited for summer and my head was filled with all the places I could go. At the moment I'm torn between 'doing' europe properly, (I have visions of me scooting along dusty streets on a bright red vespa), and America, San Francisco in particular. A friend of mine went there and I've been obsessed ever since. She's also very talented and beautiful, so check out her San Francisco post.

Prompted by this and the avoidance of work, I revisited some old photos from when I went on a brief travelling stint a couple of years ago with a friend from uni, and stumbled across this which was written on the streets of Berlin:

And I was hit by the one downside of travelling. That you're away from the ones you love. Which lead to me discovering this genius piece of technology: long distance relationship pillows. Each person wears a special ring and when one person goes to sleep, the other persons pillow begins to glow and you can hear their actual heartbeat... kind of weird, but also kind of nice. Here's a video showing how it works.

Home or away, I don't mind which right now, as long as I'm not in the library anymore.

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This evening I went to a charity cabaret show and now my head is crammed full with show tunes and once again I find myself wishing life was more like a musical. It's always been a dream of mine that I'll be walking down the street and then all of a sudden everyone starts a perfectly choreographed dance and sings a song that just happens to narrate my life. Of course I realise this will never happen, it would cause all kind of havoc and delays and I wouldn't like to think I would be the reason for anyone's day being disrupted.

But for now, I'll just have to make do with movies such as Mary Poppins, Footloose and Moulin Rouge until life can be just like the movies.

(I love old movie posters... though not all old advertising was so great)

In other news, an INCREDIBLE band called Opaque Nature released their shiny new album today. They're pretty fantastic. Give 'em a listen and buy their album here.

Look how arty and pretty their album cover is. If you can judge an album by its cover, as everyone knows you definitely can, then their album is going to be a real scrummy treat for your ears.

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Forty Little Days and Forty Little Nights

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For Lent you're supposed to give up something. But my Lent cup is half full not half empty, so I'm doing something rather than not doing something. I've set myself a challenge to keep a blog for every day of lent. Something that I've been putting off doing.

I know lent isn't a time to indulge, but sometimes it's just nice to. For example, last night, due to stacks of uni work, I didn't get round to flipping my pancakes til midnight. By this time I was tired and wanted to go to bed but by putting in a little effort I went to sleep full and smug after having a midnight feast:

Everything tastes so much better at midnight.

Here's a few more things that I find put a smile on the face:

• Beards and Kittens
• A poem
• A song

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p.s. strawberries and golden syrup are the best pancake filler. Sounds weird but trust me, and this is coming from a traditional sugar and lemon girl.