Wednesday 31 December 2008

• Dashing out for tequila and stella in a wonderfully horrid pub.
• Fast and dirty rounds of Spit/Slam.
• Cracking out a new duvet cover - big and red.
• A couple of hours curled up in bed, chatting.
• A perfectly low key and relaxed evening, with no obligations or muppets.

Tuesday 30 December 2008

• Crossing Holloway Road, and feeling that I was home - without ever realising that I'd felt I'd been away
• A laughter-filled lunch
• A clever and funny run through a map of critical theorists over a bottle of red. Suddenly, it all made a wee bit more sense.
• Twinkling at a man singing - loudly - along to his ipod. He twinkled back, later, when we crossed paths again.
• A perfect silver sliver of a sickle moon, high in the sky above my flat.

Monday 29 December 2008

• A elderly man singing along with great glee to Singing in the Rain in the cinema. Made all the sweeter by his daughter snorting with giggles at him.
• Toasting my dad.
• A sisterly slanging match - online, whilst close enough to poke each other. Midgetlegs conclusively won out over Midgetspine, I feel.
• The feeling of a long strand of pearls next to my skin - warmed through under my jumper.
• Seeing some beautiful jewellery in Berkhamstead - diamonds and emeralds and sapphires, oh my.

Sunday 28 December 2008

• Sleeping until I woke up - at 11am.
• Ikea! I love a good Ikea trip.
• Horseplay with my middle sister.
• Getting back online after five days away. How I miss the internet.
• Emails from a couple of old friends.

Saturday 27 December 2008

• The oasis of silence provided on an early morning easy jet flight by an ipod playlist entitled 'Grizzly Men'.
• A very delicious lunch of roast chicken, baguette and aubergine dip, back at Arundel.
• A new coat.
• Resolving, I think, a minor spat with a flatmate
• A Benedicts Bittermint

Tuesday 23 December 2008

• Flying through a sky in which dawn was breaking.
• A hot, buttered buttery and a cup of tea.
• The sea, the sea.
• The light in Aberdeenshire, across the fields, as we drove north.
• Starting a new book, and realising it's going to be really good.

Monday 22 December 2008

• Zimbabwean chicken.
• Topping up my oyster card with change from my pocket - a novel experience.
• A easy train journey back home.
• A cleaned fish tank.
• Standing by the aga, laughing with my sisters.