random acts of senseless beauty

festive greetings
If I don’t tell you before…
Happy Christmas everyone!
May the joy and excitement of Love Come Down be tangible in your life, and explode out into others.
Jude xx

Here in the basement
I’m sat in Bruce’s office in the basement of the Melville house. Developed basements are cool I’ve decided. It’s different from having an upstairs, as is the norm in the UK… it’s got a more cosy feeling somehow being down here. Also I’ve read so many trashy american novels [...]

20, 21,22
sorry dudes, been away. BUT I’m happy to be able to tell you that it’s 3 whole days without holly! Not a sprig to be seen beind these doors…
20 was a nice looking poinsettia (2 big flowers and lots of green leaves) in a white and grey flower pot.
21 is a [...]

oh yes… 18 & 19
Do Not Fear!! I have brought the calendar with me!
door 18 revealed a plump and victorian looking Robin Redbreast… perched on (you guessed it) some holly! He looks kind of smug, but not really to be trusted.
19 was opened by Miss Anna McLean, Karen’s 3 year old neice. [...]

OH CANADA!
Well… I’m in Canada! Victoria to be precise. That’s so far west as to be on Vancouver Island. We have Ocean on 3 sides (well 4 or course, but the 4th side is 500 miles or more north of here).
This part of the world is a staggeringly beautiful [...]

17
Crackers. Two of them. One light purple with 2 dark purple stripes, one yellow with 2 red stripes.
Oh, and some holly as ‘garnish’ as we’ve come to expect…

These Quiet Times
I’m getting fond of these moments.
This corner of this sofa.
This hour of the night with my self and my peace and my muddled ginger head.
This cat is beginning to feel like My Cat.
(he’s not my cat, he’s not my cat, he’s not my cat)
This is a borrowed time. But I’m thankful for [...]

Big Brother Is Reading You
Sometimes I forget that things that I write online are open for any old sod to read.
This blog I know is public, and when writing I think that I have half a mind on you lot; what I wantthink you might like (only half an ear, mind). Elsewhere though, I [...]

Spinning
A Spinning Top today. It’s yellow with a green band around it’s widest part, and red handle at the top to make it spin.
I know Harv was waiting to hear that.

parup-a-pum-pum
behind door 15… A drum and 2 drumsticks
woo hoo.

IT’S CHRISTMAS DAY!
Happy Christmas!
Well… It’s been Christmas Day here at home for my family and I, as I’ll be far away across the sea for the real one in 12 days time.
We’ve had a lovely lunch, a beautiful fire burning in the hearth, presents, a couple of small arguments, a great movie on TV, [...]

I’m evil
I just became an AOL user.
I feel dirty
Don’t all abuse me at once ok
I’m too tired to tell you all to bugger off and leave me alone. (in Christ of course)

Bizzy Girl (for Steve)
I’ve been a very busy girl for the last week or so. Actually more of a stressed out chicken to be honest with you. My head has whatever the cranial equivilent of tinitus is… it’s whirring so loudly, and pulling me in so many directions that I can’t hear myself [...]

Twelve and Thirteen
Firstly door 12. We find therein a burning candle in one of those ‘wee willy winkie’ old fashioned candle stick holders. The candlie is burned down to about the last inch, and dripping wax.
Door 13. yum yum yum yum. a plate with four very tasty looking mince pies on! [...]

PUCKER UP!
sorry sorry sorry sorry.
I actually got and email berating me for the lack of door 11!
Pucker up boys and girls… a very healthy looking sprig of Mistletoe.
door 12 will be opened this evening. Lovely.

ten
A stocking. Grey with red and green stripes.
and 2 square red presents sticking out of the top.

nine
A snowman; with red nose, broomstick and a lovely black top hat with a green ribbon round it.
He’s smiling a big semi-circular smile and looks very happy thank you very much.

DAVID GRAY
A long time ago my friends in Belfast and Nahville were into the music of a very little known singer songwriter called David Gray. I heard a few of his songs and was hooked. When White Ladder came out I fell in love with it immediately and banged on and on [...]

7/8
I’ve been remiss… for those of you who don’t have their own advents calendar and are counting down vicariously though me, (James!) I apologise. ;o)
7 was a cute toy rocking horse with floppy ears and rosy cheeks.
8 took a while to find because the number was obscured by a snowflake. Inside, though [...]

Christmas Shopping
I’ve found my idea of hell. It’s Oxford Circus in the run up to Christmas.
There’s a bit by the tube station, outside Nike Town where the pavement is that much narrower than anywhere else, and at the moment there are approximately 50,000 people trying to pass by each other at any [...]