Saturday 7 March 2009

• A new gallery space.
• The smell of clean and ironed clothes.
• An evening of tasty food, good conversation and mindless movies.
• Roni Horn's Pink Tons.
• The moon lighting a cloudless spot in the sky, shining through skeletal winter trees.

Friday 6 March 2009

• 8am sunshine that felt like a UMass morning.
• Catching the bus home. Relatedly, being back in the flat by 6.50 - unheard of, and wonderful.
• Reading on the tube.
• Minxy - the word, the sentiment.
• Freesias. We always have fresh flowers, and this week it's freesias. I love freesias.

Thursday 5 March 2009

• A folder, accidentally abandoned, speedily retrieved.
• Waking up, curled in a big white bed to views of a sunlit Covent Garden, followed by a half hour stroll to the office, coffee in hand. The perfect commute.
• Smirking at the disapproving men in a poorly-chosen pub, and then gleefully exacerbating the situation.
• Perfect timing.
• Cherry red DMs.

Wednesday 4 March 2009

• A sweet card in the post (and shoes, returned).
• A chatty maternal phone call, with good advice.
• A battered sausage. Filth.
• A JCB digger crossing Westminster Bridge, spotted underneath Big Ben.

Tuesday 3 March 2009

• A pleasing combination of clothes (stripes and satin and yellow and patent leather).
• Peppercorn sauce and chips.
• Leaving halfway through.
• The Good Terrorist.
• The sound of rain against the windows - when I'm curled up inside, warm and dry.

Monday 2 March 2009

• Popping in, unexpectedly, to a book launch, only to discover that the artist was someone I'd seen in Berlin and really liked.
• Good chatter with a new person and a familiar friend, in a Spitalfields pub that I've walked past a hundred times before.
• Walking along the river in daylight.
• Kissing a smooth-shaved cheek at the end of the night.
• A cream cheese bagel bought and eaten on the hop in Brick Lane, despite the skinny hipped jeans.

Sunday 1 March 2009

• An escaped orange balloon floating into a peach-streaked sunset, across the Thames.
• A couple of hours in a comfy chair, red wine in hand, reading fiction.
• An unexpectedly fun conversation over coffee.
• Double Indemnity.
• Watching day break, listening to the dawn chorus. Insomnia can have its upsides.