Kitsuné Maison Compilation 8

You are brilliant, I wasn't overly fussed when I first heard it a couple of months ago but I'm listening to it lots recently, I don't understand why I didn't feel this way the first time I heard it, maybe I was in a weird mood. I really want Penguin Prison to release an album soon please, I've probably heard A Funny Thing and Animal Animal too many times now and don't want to get sick of it, thanks.



Kitsuné Maison Compilation 8

Sophie Dahl

You are my new life inspiration. Today I caught up on all the episodes of The Delicious Miss Dahl and I am in love. She

Is really really nice
Is ultra hot
Has an awesome kitchen
Likes second hand books
Is a super cook
Is veggie
Wears the best clothes
Is borderline OCD tidy.



I want to be her. Jealous. The yummiest recipe is probably Puy lentil shepherds pie, I might make it tomorrow, it looks soso good. I may also have to make the peanut butter fudge, it all looks dreamy. Annoying I don't eat fish or seafood though-those scallops with peas looked amazing. The first episode definitely had annoying elements, but she totally won me over in the other 2. I think I will ask 'what would Sophie do' whenever I am presented with a problem from now on. She's amazing.

Busy, busy, busy

SUUUUUUUUUUUUUN












Being a typical British person I am obviously already sunburnt. Good one. Due to free houses and La and Claire being back I have been pretty much constantly drunk since Wednesday and intend to go to Worcester on Monday. I think I will have to implement some kind of drinking ban after Monday or I'll die.

Nap

Recently I have got well back into napping. Everyday around 3 I have a nice 2 hour nap. I think It started because ever since I have been able to read I nearly always read a book before bed unless I am wasted, someone else is there or both. Inevitably I'm pretty sure I have trained my body to fall asleep after 2-3 hours of Reading-or less if I am tired. So recently I have been afternoon reading and (I assume) therefore have been napping. But now I don't even need to read to have a nap I generally get pretty sleepy around 3 and fall asleep. The only time I can't is when I have work as that usually starts at 3 so I have to postpone the nap until I get home.

Good things about napping are that because you are (most likely) only in stage 1 of the sleep cycle you can have more control over the dream, and they can also be more vivid. For example just now I was dreaming that The Cave by Mumford and Sons was playing in the background, but I changed it to Wow by Kylie Minogue. I don't know why, but that is what I decided. I tend to find sound is a lot more vivid in naps than in dreams, I don't know if that is true for everyone or not.

I also stumbled upon this website yesterday which I thought was pretty funny.


According to the website the position that I sleep in that is closest to the 6 options is Foetus position. This means I am 'tough on the outside but sensitive at heart'. Interesting and probably incorrect although I would say I'm quite a guarded person which I guess could be similar to 'tough' and I'm definitely pretty pathetic which is probably 'sensitive'.

Owen sleeps in the Freefall position which means he is 'often gregarious and brash, but can be nervy and thin-skinned underneath. Doesn't like criticism, or extreme situations'. Haha! I don't think that's right at all, apart from maybe the last part about criticism and extreme situations, but that is probably true of loads of people.

I don't really know the sleeping habits of my other friends but Carly, Yas and maybe Tara are probably Foetus like me. I would like to meet someone that is a Yearner it is one of the strangest sleeping positions ever, they must have super achey arms all the time. Having said that, someone that takes forever to decide something and is then stubborn once they have chosen sounds like someone that would annoy me so maybe I could ask them quickly why they sleep with weird arms and never see them again.


I found this photo and I like it and it is appropriate for this post but it is also one of my worst fears-falling asleep on public transport makes me feel really weak. If I am travelling with someone else it is not so bad but it's still really horrible, urrrrrhhh.

Craft

I've done quite a lot of craft related things recently, here are a few:

1. I made a skirt

It's not very exciting, but it is pretty material and is appropriate for Spring. PLUS I made it really neat, none of my usual wonky sewing and having to unpick everything about a thousand times, I'm pretty happy :D

2. I decorated Easter cupcakes at Bethans

Everyone else decorated some too:

We had a decoration competition and then played some jenga and a rousing game of articulate which Bethan, Joycey and I lost spectacularly. I needed Queeg on my team so we could defend our reigning Articulate champions title.

3. I found this beautiful 1930s sewing machine in a Worcester charity shop. It came with the original book and bobbins etc... Here is a nice photo

And here is a boring-but-you-can-actaully-see-the-machine photo

It is beautiful and was a massive bargain at £25 I couldn't believe it. I'm keeping it till I die and if I have kids hopefully they will like it and it can stay in my family forever along with the ring Claire got me for my 21st.

4. In the same charity shop I found this lovely Ilford Sportsman camera

I loaded it with some 400 iso black and white Ilford film (naturally) and took some rough photos to test the aperture settings and see if it's in working order. So far I have found that the hotshoe is broken but everything else works well :) for less than £10 I think that's pretty good, and it came with a leather case.

5. I also started some knitting but I didn't take a photo.

On a non crafty note, I am going to Reading this year as well as Latitude and the Big Chill, greedy, greedy, greedy. We keep coming 7th out of 13 in the pub quiz and Jons team keeps beating us. I am WELL into Masterchef and really want Alex the hottie to win, but if Tim wins I'd also be be happy and I probably wouldn't mind that much if Druhv won either. Masterchef has also made me really want to go to India, it looks amazing. I need to stop giving into peer pressure and going to Priors and dancing on a Sunday night when no one else is, it's just embarrassing. I really really REALLY don't want my sister to move to Thailand on the 26th :(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:( I am going to the cinema at 10:30am tomorrow with my family to watch something involving dragons and I have no idea what it is. I'm mega looking forward to meeting Joe on Wednesday or Thursday. It's lovely having Owen, Dan, Ruth, Kirsty and others back for a bit. My lower left wisdom tooth is dead painful, so I can't eat any of my Easter eggs and I have to eat Nurofen all the time, boo! On the plus side, I do get lots of soup-but obviously no bread to eat it with.

Hope In The Air