I should just not be allowed to go on the internet.. ever.

I should just not be allowed to go on the internet.. ever. I was researching a future blog post and I stumbled across this:

http://www.gilesmiller.com/

A Queen's Head Mirror, with its own pearl neclace no less.. it is so cute, and not even out of my price range either. Damn trying to save money.. it is so difficult.

This is Just to Say

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

-- William Carlos Williams

Stays Down Low

Right around the time we got our cat Ian had given me to read a book called House of Tribes about the adventures of tribes of mice living in a country house. One of the tribes in the house had a custom of naming its members the opposite of what they are like, so Falling Off Things has very good balance and Tread Lightly is very noisy. When we were trying to think of a name for the cat we seriously considered naming him Stays Down Low because right from when he was young he has really liked being up high.

He loved climbing up our clothes airer...

And he even used to sleep up there in an improvised hammock until he got too big.

But he has never grown out of climbing it.

Although sometimes he is more successful than others....

Ha, conquered!

But anywhere high up is good, here he is chilling out on top of the kitchen cupboards:

And in the bathroom on the towel rack:

Patrolling the window ledge:

And, the highest point in the house, on top of the topbox on the wardrobe:

Yup, I think Stays Down Low would have been a very apt name for the little bugger!

I am going to a book launch in this room, lush!

Spring has sprung

In celebration of the glorious weather we have been having recently here are some photos I took during a recent walk.

White Horse - The List

I have a list. This list is the list of all the things that I want to do while I am living in the UK.

The reason that I have a such a list is a) I'm just that kinda gal, and b) when I was at university I worked with an Irish girl who had only been in New Zealand for a year or so and had seen more of it than I had seen in my 20-odd years of living there. She was able to tell me to go here or there and could rave about all the amazing things she had seen to me, and I hadn't seen hardly any of them myself. It was after this that I vowed to be a perpetual tourist, no matter where I was, not matter how long I had been there. So: I have a list.

Over Easter I went to see the White Horse at Uffington. The White Horse was created by cutting away the turf to reveal the white, chalky soil underneath and dates back about 3,000 years.

Just below the White Horse is Dragon Hill where legend has it St. George slew the dragon. The bare patch of chalk where no grass will grow is supposedly where the dragon's blood spilled.

This is a photo of it from the air which I have had to 'borrow' from another website as you cannot see it from the ground.

Here are some of my photos...

Some chalk

From here the horse kind of looks like an angry bird

A lonely tree

Dragon Hill is the square hill in the background

The Ordnance Survey marker on the top of the hill

I love pirates

Why are pirates called pirates?
They just ARRRRRRRRRRRR!

What does a pirate say when he has a heart attack?
Arrr, me heartie!

What does a dyslexic pirate say?
RAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Why does it take pirates so long to learn the alphabet?
Because they can spend years at C.

What is the distance from the centre of a circle of pirates to the edge?
ARRRRRRRRRRRRR



I'm so lame....

Want Want Want!

I was looking on some random craft sites from New Zealand and found the following. I want pretty much everything on this site!

Custom poetry ring

Kia Kaha - Stand Strong, Aroha - Love

http://www.endemicworld.com/nz-designers/ailish-jewellery.html

Keep Calm and Carry On

I am absolutely obsessed with ideas for decorating my home at the moment.. only problem is I'm not going to have a 'home' for at least another year and a half to two years. This is not to say that I am homeless, I am just living in a little rental that I know I am not going to be in for that much longer as I will am planning to move back home to New Zealand in about a year and a half.

Anyway, my latest find is the below vinyl wall sticker which I am absolutely in love with and am definitely going to purchase. There is loads of cool stuff on the site, but I plan to (try to) paint my walls myself where possible.

From: http://dalidecals.com/Keep-Calm-and-Carry-On-Wall-Decal-Sticker-Graphic.html

Anyway, I hope you enjoy my blog of random stuff...