Things I Love Thursday (or just lately, in general)

This is the last Thursday of 2011 so here’s another cocktail of things, places, blog posts, and other galimaufry that I’ve been lusting over or inspired by recently:

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A magical short film, in gaelic but there are subtitles.


Christmas- I had a wonderful Christmas day spent with family and a hilarious boxing day spent with dear friends. I am so privileged and blessed in the people I know and I hope reader that you had a fantastic Christmas too (or if you celebrate something else that was wonderful, too).

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Lazy mornings and productive afternoons- This morning I awoke and thought to myself “Today I don’t feel like doing anything”* so I put my errands off till the afternoon and spent the morning lazing around drinking tea snuggled up on the couch.
It’s amazing how much calmer and more relaxed I felt all day just for listening to my body and allowing myself to just be for a bit.

Hilarious and horrific (in equal measures) presents:


It's all in the eyes, the cold dead eyes. Thanks Yen!

If Famous Writers had Written Twilight- My favourites are Jane Austen and George Sanders

Also:
the Christmas lights twinkling in the windows of my neighbours, Nativity plays & carol & Christingle services, resisting the urge to turn into Father Jack at long cross-denominational meetings and respond to most questions with “that would be an ecumenical matter”, Downton Abbey, Narnia inspired Doctor Who with a cameo from Bill Bailey- how reader could I not love it? Oh and melting snowmen cookies anyone?

That’s all for now, folks! Time for me to log off and go celebrate New Year’s weekend but before I do what’s making your Christmas week twinkle reader?

*Nb my inner voice doesn’t usually sound like Bruno Mars

Thoughtful Tuesday

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in the Alaska won’t make it “white”
– Bing Crosby

Thoughtful Tuesday

Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things - trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that’s a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We’re just babies making up a game, if you’re right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That’s why I’m going to stand by the play-world. I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Aslan to lead it. I’m going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn’t any Narnia.
— C. S. Lewis
The Silver Chair

Thoughtful Tuesday

Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you’ll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.
— Neil Gaiman, M Is for Magic

Silent Sunday

Thoughtful Tuesday

Don’t bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behaviour.
— C. S. Lewis

Silent Sunday

Lo a bandwagon…
*jumps*
Silent Sunday is an idea I found via twitter, I’m not sure who or where the original post was conceived but you can go to twitter and search #silentsunday for plenty more fab photos.
The idea is to post a photograph. That’s just one photograph you’ve taken, which either sums up your week, really caught your attention, made you smile – WHATEVER. The pictorial highlight of your week. It’s often something you could post which needs no words at all hence “Silent Sunday”.
And now I’ll shut up…

Things I love Thursday

It’s Thursday … Quick reader to the Batmobile Tilt list!:

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This week I love the discussion provoked by the public sector strikes.
Don’t worry reader I’m not going to turn this segment into my own little soapbox from which to espouse my views (much has already been said by many in that respect) but it does my soul good to see people stirred up, thinking about what is right/fair and passionately standing up for issues that matter (whatever side they are on) rather than say some media placebo like the X Factor

Also high on my list this week a friend’s daughter has been entered by her school in The Sunday Telegraph’s school painting competition. Em is 6 years old, here’s her painting-

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On the subject of art and amazing talents…We are His Masterpiece


Simple pleasures:
Advent Calendars, finding exactly what you need where you least expect it, literary devices, soup and grilled cheese sandwiches,

What is making you happy this week reader? Seriously, I'm nosy I want to know.