Burnt Toast

uh-oh, pipped at the post

2008-08-28T21:24:00+00:00

Did I say “It’s Lovely!” was my new favourite blog? It’s my second favourite today. This gorgeous site is my new favourite:

http://www.shorpy.com

(PeeEss, actually, my absolute favourite is my fella’s blog, but it won’t ever fall off the top slot, so perhaps can’t count.)

my new favourite blog

2008-08-27T18:38:00+00:00

Who doesn’t like peeking into other people’s houses to see how they’ve decorated, huh? I mean, the inspiration!

Oh.

Go on and see more at, ”It’s Lovely! I’ll Take It!” A Collection of Poorly Chosen Photos from Real Estate Listings.

a novel novella

2008-07-19T21:33:00+00:00

My guy has written his first book - a novella called HorrorCon. I’m not just saying this, but it’s brilliant. He’s an incredible writer with an amazing imagination.

What’s more, you can buy it from Lulu now.

Oh, and guess who did the photography and design? :-)

I luf them

2008-05-17T16:42:00+00:00

More. Many, many more on the National Geographic site.

bedtime stories

2008-05-09T20:36:00+00:00

Wanna read a good story? For free? My lovely Scotty has branched out of screenwriting for a brief sojourn into novella-land and is posting it online. I’m special and have read the whole thing already and I can assure you, it’s worth waiting for. You can read Part I and Part II now though. It’s a fascinating story set over three days at a Horror Convention in Florida. It’s fab.

The whole lot will be here in its entirety when it’s done.

everything i know i learned from a tree

2008-04-22T22:20:07+00:00

The BBC asks what we can learn from climbing trees. It seems that tree-climbing has gone rather out of favour and of course, I find this a jolly great shame. I was really rather pleased to find that my daughter and her friends were spending their afternoons in a tree near their school.

I spent loads of time in trees when I was growing up. One of my earliest memories is of a marvelous grassy park with a thick verge of mature trees that at the time seemed a veritable forest. I suppose it was more likely a few small trees. The last tree I remember climbing was in Italy - a giant cherry tree just next to our house, that I climbed to harvest its fat juicy fruit. I didn’t hang about to admire the view, however, as the tree often had more ants than cherries.

I think I’m due a tree climb in the near future.

beautiful botanicals

2008-04-19T21:48:00+00:00

Kew opens botanical art gallery. Shame the video isn’t embeddable. In Pictures.

cat revived by firefighters

2008-04-14T13:41:00+00:00

I found this story really touching. It must have been heart-breaking to see a cat clawing at the windows trying to get out of a burning building, of course, but also might be considered by some beyond the call of duty to save it. Not me, I hasten to add…

dive in…

2008-04-07T18:39:01+00:00

to some fab Flickr pools:

Mid-century neighbourhoods

1960’s Interior Design and Residential Architecture

Lovely 60s Girls

Vintage Paperback

Pulp Fiction

Mid-century modern interiors

That should keep you busy…

is pink the new red?

2008-04-06T16:57:00+00:00

I’m wondering because I’ve been looking around for a pair of red shoes to wear with a black dress next week and all I can find are magenta court shoes.

I suppose that would do just as well, but I’m not really a pink kinda gal.