Thoughtful Tuesday

We spend most of our lives conjugating three verbs: to want, to have, and to do.
- Evelyn Underhill

Friday Find

In the days of Marco Polo, rhubarb was worth several times as much as opium. I can hear the sound of empires crumble...

Thoughtful Tuesday

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
-Plato

Friday Find

THE WHOLE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THIS. A "simple" sinewave synthesizer triggered by an ordinary 16step sequencer.
It's pretty simple click to make a tune. I started out clicking strategically and by the end was just wildly clicking. So much fun!

Things I Love Thursday

This week I am much-loving:

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Top of my list this week is getting a sneak preview of the wedding dress of one of my dearest friends. Just stunning, the style was not one I expected her to choose but it looks perfect on her. K and I have been friends since school, sometimes I wonder what our early-teenage selves would think if they could see us now. I think yesteryear K would be proud, though she’d never admit it.

Much Ado about Nothing –I enjoyed it enormously and am glad to say my misgivings about the 1980s setting were proved false. We had a lovely Saturday in London & Much Ado About Nothing was the jewel in the crown.

Seeing a mum & her twin babies interacting on a train (their body languages synchronized perfectly!)

Mini-adventures, indoor picnics complete with picnic basket, dinner parties, long conversations about everything and nothing all at the same time. Tea, wine, giggles and belly laughs. Life is always good with friends.

So reader, over to you what’s making your list this week? I always enjoy hearing some of the things that have made your week worth living.

Thoughtful Tuesday

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
- George Bernard Shaw

Friday Find

A bit of a cheat this week because this isn’t a new find but this week has gone by in a bit of a blur and so I’m hoping you’ll be so bowled over by the comic genius of this weeks find that you’ll forgive me reader:

Axis of Awesome’s ‘How to Write a Love Song’

Things I Love Thursday

Ah Thursday. This week has gone so quickly it’s nice to have a chance to pause for a moment and reflect on the things I love this week. To wit here’s my list of things making my heart all a-fluttery this week:

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Topping the list this week my trip to Latvia. It was an emotional week and I was both humbled and inspired by the children and other people I met. I found myself being very challenged throughout the week but I won’t go on about that here and now –partly because I haven’t got the words to express it just yet-hopefully it will get its own post very soon.

Also high on my list this week is the fact that tomorrow I am going away with a friend for a couple of days to celebrate his unofficial birthday ahead of his real one next week. We are going to visit one of one of our dearest friends who we haven’t seen since Christmas. Also excited because we are going to see Much Ado About Nothing on Saturday night, though not as excited as the birthday boy. Can I share a secret with you though reader? MAAN is one of my favourite Shakespeare plays and I must confess to being a little concerned at the news its been transported to ‘1980s sun-drenched Gibraltar - complete with Rubik's Cubes and disco dance floors.’

Best of the rest:

Improptu cocktail parties and yummy pub lunches the day after-made all the more random/fun when you’ve only been home for an afternoon.

Sherlock Holmes A Study in Terror- amazing (and by amazing I mean awful)

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Genuine dialogue- ‘When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever's left, however improbable, must be the truth. Therefore you are sitting on my pipe.’
Also-
‘What makes you think he'll do it again?’
‘I think he will Lestrade, I think he will.’
‘Oh, all right.’
Excellent work all round, guys.

Doctor Who
Oh and also…
waking up 9 months pregnant JEEZ. I am sitting cross-legged FOREVER. Well, for a very long time anyway (pinked out because of huge spoilerage)

These cup cosies made by sewtara

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This is definitely how I feel in the mornings.

What's making your love list this week reader?

Thoughtful Tuesday

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan