Imaginary friends.

Day 01 — Your favourite film

Day 02 — A song that makes you happy

Day 03 — Your favourite food

Day 04 — A photo of you taken over ten years ago

Day 05 — Your day, in great detail

Day 06 — Your favourite television program

Day 07 — A song that makes you cry (or nearly)

Day 08 — Your favourite book

Day 09 — A photo that makes you happy

Day 10 — A hobby of yours

Day 11 — Your favourite song

Day 12 — An art piece

Day 13 — Your family

Day 14 — A photo of you taken recently

Day 15 — Your favourite actress

Day 16 — A recipe

Day 17 — Your favourite possession

Day 18 — A website

Day 19 — A song that makes you want to dance

Day 20 — Your favourite quote

Day 21 — A non-fiction book

Day 22 — Your favourite memory

Day 23 — A photo you took

Day 24 — What you can see from your window

Day 25 — A talent of yours

Day 26 — Your favourite actor

Day 27 — A photo that makes you angry/sad

Day 28 — A fiction book

Day 29 — What you wore today

Day 30 — Hopes, dreams and plans for the next year

View from my window. It's a pretty rock and roll neighbourhood as you can see

My main talent is an excessively good memory. School, conversations, useless information; it all goes in and never gets out. Can be useful, can make me look like a stalker/ enthusiast for odd topics I couldn't care less about. Either way, an uninteresting talent.

My top 10 actors. Some major decision making was involved, I'll regret it all tomorrow.

1. Monty. The single greatest person who ever lived. If I had an imaginary friend it would be him.

2. Roger Livesey, Laird of Kiloran. "She walks in beauty like the night, only she's bicycling and it's daytime."

3. Tom Courtenay. Someone give the man a hug.

4. Jack Lemmon. I want to cry whenever anyone's mean to him. It's hard remembering what's fictional.

5. Warren Beatty.Quietly, hilariously terrifying.

6. Clark Gable. "Do you love her?" "YES! But don't hold that against me, I'm a little screwy myself!"

7. David Niven. That video says all that needs to be said.

8. Cary Grant. Easily the coolest comedy actor ever.

9. Michael York. Blue is his colour...

10. Terence Stamp, he of the ultimate scary eyes. Anyone ever tells me they collect butterflies; I'm running for the hills.

Done. That was stressful. I'm going to have to go and watch at least one film of theirs now, so long.

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Day 01 — Your favourite film

Day 02 — A song that makes you happy

Day 03 — Your favourite food

Day 04 — A photo of you taken over ten years ago

Day 05 — Your day, in great detail

Day 06 — Your favourite television program

Day 07 — A song that makes you cry (or nearly)

Day 08 — Your favourite book

Day 09 — A photo that makes you happy

Day 10 — A hobby of yours

Day 11 — Your favourite song

Day 12 — An art piece

Day 13 — Your family

Day 14 — A photo of you taken recently

Day 15 — Your favourite actress

Day 16 — A recipe

Day 17 — Your favourite possession

Day 18 — A website

Day 19 — A song that makes you want to dance

Day 20 — Your favourite quote

Day 21 — A non-fiction book

Day 22 — Your favourite memory

Day 23 — A photo you took
Day 24 — What you can see from your window

Day 25 — A talent of yours

Day 26 — Your favourite actor

Day 27 — A photo that makes you angry/sad

Day 28 — A fiction book

Day 29 — What you wore today

Day 30 — Hopes, dreams and plans for the next year

It's impossible not to love Adele's album, she seems to be there every time I turn the TV on. Apart from the incredible singing it helps that she's hilarious. If you didn't see her on Graham Norton with Miranda Hart and Jack Whitehall then quite frankly you must watch it. NOW.

"Nothing succeeds like success." - Alexandre Dumas. Sensible man. My mantra for justifying the amount of work I'm making myself do.

Non-fiction: Key Concepts in Victorian Literature (Palgrave Key Concepts). If I can just memorise this, the wider reading literature exam will be a doddle. If you happen to be taking this AS course, this is easily the best book I've come across.

Combine memories with pictures, some of my travels...

Barcelona. Trying to get pictures of the chimneys while on the roof of La Pedrera. Most people don't have their bobble hat and the sagrada familia in the same picture, but I asked if we could go in October so that it wouldn't be too hot... pathetic.

Ireland. My family has a farm, I'd never been before, it was lovely.

Favourite things in Paris: Pere Lachaise cemetery, Versailles and bizarre chewing-gum poetry on the metro.

Very old picture of me from an art project that, at a guess, was about anger. Just found this in the mess of folders that is my laptop. Too many pictures, too little organisational skill.

A post consisting of almost entirely unrelated things. Oh well, thankyou very much if you stuck with it :) 

That's the way it crumbles, cookie-wise.

Day 01 — Your favourite film

Day 02 — A song that makes you happy

Day 03 — Your favourite food

Day 04 — A photo of you taken over ten years ago

Day 05 — Your day, in great detail

Day 06 — Your favourite television program

Day 07 — A song that makes you cry (or nearly)

Day 08 — Your favourite book

Day 09 — A photo that makes you happy

Day 10 — A hobby of yours

Day 11 — Your favourite song

Day 12 — An art piece

Day 13 — Your family

Day 14 — A photo of you taken recently

Day 15 — Your favourite actress

Day 16 — A recipe

Day 17 — Your favourite possession

Day 18 — A website

Day 19 — A song that makes you want to dance

Day 20 — Your favourite quote

Day 21 — A non-fiction book

Day 22 — Your favourite memory

Day 23 — A photo you took

Day 24 — What you can see from your window

Day 25 — A talent of yours

Day 26 — Your favourite actor

Day 27 — A photo that makes you angry/sad

Day 28 — A fiction book

Day 29 — What you wore today

Day 30 — Hopes, dreams and plans for the next year

The last piece of art I did, probably over a year ago now, for my art gcse (really poor picture quality, taken sneakily with my phone before the end). This exam was one of the most terrifying parts of my education to date. 10 hours and one chance to get it right (eek!) I'd also managed to box myself into a corner of flipping miners on my project; who are some of the liniest people on the planet and impractically difficult to draw. I quite liked art at school but I'm not great and with all the busyness of a-levels haven't had chance to do more than some doodles and birthday cards since then.

My terribly modern family is far, far too complicated to have any photos or anything all together but never mind. I love my family, they're a little eccentric mostly.

Most recent photo of me which isn't already on this blog. All dressed up, Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's style, for a friend's school thing.

My favourite actresses are more difficult to discern than my favourite actors. Not sure what it says about me but I don't get as enthusiastic about individual actresses as I do their male counterparts. There are lots I love in certain roles but very few who I consistently like.

Shirley Maclaine. For always being in things that make me laugh and cry like a baby.

Audrey. I don't think a girl exists who doesn't wish she was her.

Lillian Gish. Essentially invented film acting and had hair I've been obsessed with as long as I can remember.

Joan Fontaine. Aside from always being in films I love, she looks so much like my mum. It's the rabbit in headlights thing. :)

My preferences with actresses are pretty standard. I also love Julie Christie, Vanessa Paradis, Clara Bow, Shirley Temple, Marilyn Monroe, Gene Tierney, Vivien Leigh, Brooke Shields and Sissy Spacek to name a few. 

"We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time."

Day 01 — Your favourite film

Day 02 — A song that makes you happy

Day 03 — Your favourite food

Day 04 — A photo of you taken over ten years ago

Day 05 — Your day, in great detail

Day 06 — Your favourite television program

Day 07 — A song that makes you cry (or nearly)

Day 08 — Your favourite book

Day 09 — A photo that makes you happy

Day 10 — A hobby of yours

Day 11 — Your favourite song

Day 12 — An art piece

Day 13 — Your family

Day 14 — A photo of you taken recently

Day 15 — Your favourite actress

Day 16 — A recipe

Day 17 — Your favourite possession

Day 18 — A website

Day 19 — A song that makes you want to dance

Day 20 — Your favourite quote

Day 21 — A non-fiction book

Day 22 — Your favourite memory

Day 23 — A photo you took

Day 24 — What you can see from your window

Day 25 — A talent of yours

Day 26 — Your favourite actor

Day 27 — A photo that makes you angry/sad

Day 28 — A fiction book

Day 29 — What you wore today

Day 30 — Hopes, dreams and plans for the next year

A song that makes me cry: Mumford and Sons, White Blank Page

The first time I saw Mumford and Sons, thinking they were just another support act I'd have to listen to, was unexpectedly harrowing. Them playing this song wasn’t dissimilar to a punch in the stomach. The dingy little room had been awed into complete silence, a surreal low fog had materialised and quite a few people looked like they were about to burst into tears (myself very much included). It was pretty intense; I listened to nothing but them for at least 6 months so I’m not in the least surprised by their recent success.

 

My favourite book... is indescribably difficult for me to answer. I'm young, impressionable and have busied myself with reading classics from completely different eras and genres. Most things I read have an impact on me, all the clichés, so it’s hard to tell what has had the most yet. The last book I finished was Jack Kerouac’s ‘On the Road’, which I have wanted to read for a long time after reading ‘And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks’ which he wrote with William S. Burroughs. Knowing how much influence Kerouac had on Bob Dylan, I used his music as the soundtrack to reading the book, which made it quite immersive. I really loved the book despite its slightly soul-destroying loneliness, it felt refreshingly free after all the Victorian literature I've been reading for school. I’m now reading Virginia Woolf’s ‘Orlando’.

Some of my favourites: The Scarlet Pimpernel, Hangover Square, The Count of Monte Cristo, Slaughterhouse-5, Decline and Fall, Lolita, Jude the Obscure, The End of the Affair, Catch-22, As I Lay Dying and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Unoriginal but I don't care.

A photo that makes me happy:

Last day of school, age about 13/14, best friends since we were 5 :)

That Was Then, This Is Now

Day 01 — Your favourite film

Day 02 — A song that makes you happy

Day 03 — Your favourite food

Day 04 — A photo of you taken over ten years ago

Day 05 — Your day, in great detail

Day 06 — Your favourite television program

Day 07 — A song that makes you cry (or nearly)

Day 08 — Your favourite book

Day 09 — A photo that makes you happy

Day 10 — A hobby of yours

Day 11 — Your favourite song

Day 12 — An art piece

Day 13 — Your family

Day 14 — A photo of you taken recently

Day 15 — Your favourite actress

Day 16 — A recipe

Day 17 — Your favourite possession

Day 18 — A website

Day 19 — A song that makes you want to dance

Day 20 — Your favourite quote

Day 21 — A non-fiction book

Day 22 — Your favourite memory

Day 23 — A photo you took

Day 24 — What you can see from your window

Day 25 — A talent of yours

Day 26 — Your favourite actor

Day 27 — A photo that makes you angry/sad

Day 28 — A fiction book

Day 29 — What you wore today

Day 30 — Hopes, dreams and plans for the next year

Skipped over favourite food as I didn't get a chance to post anything on Monday. Also as a vegetarian who can't cook and lives at home so doesn't have to, my opinions on food are reeeeeally dull. I hate mushrooms and large chunks of tomato, after that it's aaaalll gooood.

Anyway, little me:

I'm the little girl, not the boy surprise surprise, about 3 years old. Started accessorising early me.

 I'm the little tiger, about 3 again. Does anyone have absolutely any idea what my sister can possibly have asked to be painted as?! If it was the devil, that must have been one scared party entertainer...

In slightly more recent times; I had a lovely day. Went shopping with my mum (because I'm that rock and roll) and out to a gig some friends of mine were playing this evening. Got dressed up twice and not a single picture... you can tell I'm new to this blogging lark ;) 

That's all folks!