random acts of senseless beauty

When we picked her up at the church she was ready to get out the door and on with the adventure as soon as possible.
The adventure so far (in no particular order) has consisted of trains and busses and walking and pizza and The Incredibles and just a little bit of missing mummy and more [...]

I’ve got this whole batch of new songs running through my head.
Half heard lyrics and tunes that have latched themselves into my subconcious after only three full listens.
Trying my hardest not to hear it through over hopeful ears, but almost relieved that it’s as good as I remember.
I see it in the new sunrise [...]

this from marlei earlier… love it.
I am passing this on to you because it definitely
worked for me and most of us could be more calm
in our lives. By following the simple advice I heard
on a Dr. Phil show, I have finally found inner peace.
Dr. Phil proclaimed, “The way to achieve inner peace
is to finish [...]

Just the thing for the hottest night of the year so far… a curry.
James & Kari are over from the states, now that he’s finally got his green card, and the strangest thing about seeing them again was that it didn’t seem like 15 months since the last time – it felt like a couple [...]

For your information and, no doubt, fascination, I bring you the following nugget of information.
Today I’m not taking a jacket out of the flat with me. And I’m not coming back till late and everything.
I like faux summer. It rocks.

We’ve* updated my site, so it looks a little different right now. I’m* going to be playing with it over the next few days to see what this new version does, so bare with me!
*clearly when I say we and I I mean Ben

So here’s some pictures. I’m sorry i didn’t take ‘before’ pictures of the bedrooms…
How the living room started:

and here it is now:

and here’s my bedroom, which was dark orange/terracotta:

and here’s Cath’s, which was a dark, mustardy, yellow: (The wall on the left is 2 shades darker than the one on the right…)

and YAAAAAAY! [...]

I can’t believe it’s nearly midnight and I’m still awake. Tonight I needed an early night. I nearly fell asleep at my desk this afternoon and during the show Steve kept referring to me as “the broken one”.
Today my right, ‘roller’, hand was noticably swollen. It was my party piece; question: [...]

The two rooms are finished and back to rights. We LOVE the colours – which is lucky since you never really know exactly what you’re going to get untill it’s up there. I’m now fading fast in my bed… that’s in the middle of the room awaiting an early start tomorrow. We’re [...]

This is it. The weekend we’ve been waiting for since we moved in last July. These are the days that we choose what colour we want our walls.
For girls who rented accomodation for years and were NEVER allowed to paint our own rooms, this is a big deal.
The people from whom [...]

The trouble with having blogged for a few years now is that I can’t remember what I’ve actually posted, and what I’ve just thought about posting. So… if I’ve gone over this before, then forgive me.
There’s one thing about being single that you don’t realise you’re missing till it crops up in the strangest [...]

Stalking Pete Doherty.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything more disturbing in my life*. And the drug-addled pop start seemed one of the sanest, if most tragic, people in the whole mess.
*that is… other than those Crazy Frog adverts. They scare me.

On Saturday night I went out with Ruth & Emma, to a party in a bar near Baker Street. It was a great night out, spending time with friends I haven’t seen for a while, and topped off by the strangest coincidence.
I was standing at the bar, ordering drinks, when I glance [...]

… then, if you don’t already, read Oli’s Blog.
I’ve just had the best hour catching up on a bunch of posts and follwing him and his beautiful mind from Lima through the Amazon to Bogota. His writing is just something else.
It won’t be a wasted trip.

Yesterday I was wandering up a reasonable empty Upper Regent Street on my way in to work (late) when I heard the beginnings of a siren start up in the distance. It started it’s warm-up swoop, and then stopped on the top note.
No Nee Nar Nee Nar, or a slow wooo-oooo-wooo-oooo, or a [...]

… as the great prophet Meatloaf once said.
After work Lammo, Jacqs and I met up with the legend that is Plugger Kev for a lightning tour of london venues. A swifty in The Ship then off to The Water Rats in Kings Cross to see the creators of one of Steve’s favourite demos in [...]

Ariel, the BBC staff magazine, did a big spread this week about blogging, and highlighted a bunch of blogs done by BBC Staff. All the other blogs are witty, reasoned, creative, award winning… and by blokes.
I’m weird.
Hooray.
*edited*
in response to the comment from Andy, here are links to the other 5 [...]

Marlei emailed with her astonishment that Renee Zelwegger and Kenny Chesney have got married. Not because she’s into country music (although living in Nashville it rubs off a teeny bit even if you fight it) but maily because her daughter Hannah saw Renee in Cool Springs Mall the other week.
Anyway. I wasn’t certain [...]

I wasn’t at The Sony’s tonight, but a few of the boys traipsed off, suited and booted, at the end of the day.
Instead I went to a fantastically short and perfectly heated Greenbelt meeting, followed by beer and a curry. If I was Pip, I’d have had photos, but no – I [...]

Thirty years ago today I got myself a baby sister. To be honest I don’t remember much about it; I was 2 and a half, and very sick with gastro-enteritis. I do remember being in the bedroom with Will – he’d have been 5 and a half, and we shared a room at [...]