I just sent a photo from my phone to green ink - cool! [I am a bit clueless when it comes to technology, so this is a breakthrough!]
Just some random randomness for you all today - as you can see from the photo, this is what's on my desk at work. I might also add it's the tidiest part of my desk.
My calendar is various cast shots of the musical Chicago. Jerry Springer is currently playing Billy Flynn in London, and I saw him yesterday. He was standing by the stage door of the theatre. I was walking to the foodies market in Covent Garden, to get some much needed homemade chutney off North London Kitchen!
I like having Vaseline with me at all times. I was put on the drug Roaccutane four years ago, and it gave me unbearably dry lips for the year I was on it. I got so used to carrying it around with me I've never dropped the habit. I usually get the aloe vera (in the green tin!) but Rosy Lips is fast becoming my summer staple, with its sweet and sticky gloss-like effect. The little bottle of L'Occitane moisturiser smells divine (lavender, tea tree and geranium) and is especially nice to put on my hands if they feel dry, or on my shoulders after a lunch break in the sun!
The little London bus was actually a gift for my godson, but somehow I ended up keeping it. Maybe I'll get him a black cab instead. The bus is an 88, one I take quite regularly!
The Eiffel Tower is part of a dismantled keyring I bought in Paris last October. The Russian doll was brought back by a work friend on her trip to Moscow.
The rest of my desk is a mess. I have a chronic cough module I'm editing to the left, and a pile of empty water bottles to my right, with about three months worth of unfiled paperwork in between!
I also have an empty strawberry box - I had strawberries for breakfast this morning, and I love the box so much I don't want to throw it away. The box is from Belgium and it has "seize the day" in four languages on it!
This week I've been loving:
♥ The amazing weather! I am tanned to the max, just from running to and from work each day, and from sitting outside in my lunch break
♥ All you could eat Ben and Jerry's ice cream at my work summer party on Wednesday night!
♥ Concert for George. I've been loving this for weeks, but this morning I've had "My Sweet Lord" going in my head and its made me think of it again. This was truly the most beautiful thing I've seen for years, and I cried bucketloads. A lot of what I saw inspired my manifesto.
♥ Thinking happy thoughts, and reading uplifting things
♥ Barbecues
♥ Pimms and G&T's
♥ Loads of lovely library books
♥ Writing with my fountain pen
♥ Searching for LPs in Camden market
♥ Rum and raisin ice cream from Marine Ices, Chalk Farm
♥ Darrell Lea liquorice and cherry ripes, bought for an exhorbitant price at the Toast Festival, but a much needed taste of home
♥ Homemade muesli, with the addition of goji berries this time
♥ Cleaning out my pantry
♥ My own homegrown strawberries
♥ Sexy strapless dresses
♥ A near daily yoga practice
♥ Frozen yoghurt with raspberries and mango
♥ Reworking my short story I wrote last week, and a poem I wrote last Christmas
♥ My hair drying in ringlets in the sun
♥ Sleeping with sheets and fans on for the first time in nearly two years!
♥ Brunch at Giraffe
♥ The promise of the weekend and all the fun I shall have in it!
What are you all loving today?
In the words of my strawberry box - Pluk de dag! Cueille le jour! Plfücke den Tag!
Seize the day.
Happy weekend everyone.
Great post! Cute little Vaseline tin, and I love your list. This week I've been loving:
ReplyDelete* raspberry sorbet
* fresh-from-my-mom's-garden tomatoes
* peanut butter & banana & honey sandwiches on the best grainy ezekial bread
* nike tempo shorts
* making meals out of ingredients already in my pantry, gearing up for our move
* generous people who have given us boxes for moving
* iced tea with a friend
* new magazines with beauty in them
* showering in the morning instead of at night
* skirts for hot days
* t-strap sandals
* my poodle
That's a lovely list Sarah! I've had my eye on some shorts for running, I'll check out the Nike ones. And yum to raspberry sorbet! Good luck with your move :D x
ReplyDeleteI'm loving berries and cherries amd tennis and 15 mins til hometime :)
ReplyDeletefab list phil... where o where did you find your vaseline? i've been trying to find the rosy breed for yonks and had no luck at boots or superdrug, maybe we're a vaseline backwater up in scotland!?
bon weekend!
It's been just wonderful this week, hasn't it?
ReplyDeleteI'm currently loving
~my new camera
~Asprey purple water body lotion
~mac viva glam v lipstick
~pigs in heaven by barbara kingsolver
~homemade truffles using Willie's cacao
My husband and I also have 'our bridge' in london!! It's where he proposed :)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/matsas/3671628138/in/set-72157620717488612
Have a great weekend too x
It was just in my local Sainsburys. I've never seen it, so bought two while I had the chance. I'll send you some up if you like :D
ReplyDeleteI have a tiiiny little thing of vaseline that sits in my bathroom by the toothbrush-- I use it every day and night! It's as imperative to me as the tooth brush itself-- dry lips are the worst, such a nagging torture...
ReplyDeleteI just read on FaNLK's blog that you went to see her and her booth!! How very fun :) I told her, I'm so jealous you were able to go.
Glad to see a glimpse of your desk and your week :)
Hey my darling!
ReplyDeleteI think you should wash out the strawberry container and fill it with rubber bands or paper clips.. then the mess has a purpose!
xo
rosy lips vaseline? now i definitely have to get me some of that! Yes, I'm an aloe girl ;)
ReplyDeleteTell me sweetness, how do you make the cute hearts? x
Very tidy piece of a desk it is too, today I'm loving being pack in the home town, first time since my wedding. Meeting friends for coffee soon, meeting mam's friends for coffee later. Dad saying he has friends from work he'd like me to meet up with for a coffee, but he's only messing...
ReplyDeleteWhat a great list and thanks for the link to positively present. Things like that are great for me to read at the moment.
ReplyDeleteMy love list would go something like this:
sunshine
our cute dogs
feta and mint salads
lime based icy drinks - so refreshing
summer sandals
beach-time
swimming in the open air.
Isn't summer great!
Hello lovely lady!
ReplyDeleteI'd love to meet up. I'll let you know when I have some clear dates. :)
A xx
Wow - I have never seen pink vaseline. Silly Suburbs for not being like London.
ReplyDeleteI like your Russia Doll - I have a set like yours too :)
Jessica
What a great strawberry box -- all ours are plastic and not very fun! And I just love your manifesto and the whole idea of it!
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by my blog, come by anytime :)
This is a lovely list, dear girl.
ReplyDeleteI've been so mired down this week that I really have to step outside of myself to come up with a few things... but I'll try... ;)
I am loving all the wonderful and encouraging comments from my friends.
I am loving the closeness between my husband and I as we go through this challenge together.
I am loving our new city!
I am loving meeting new people!
Thanks for this inspirational post, sweetie!
xo