if i were rich

i would buy my family (and myself, of course) tickets to see Oliver in the west end.
we're watching it on tv now

good wholesome family fun <3

oh yum

no lemon drizzle shizzle bizzle cake for me

chocolate cake in a mug.
oh yes, you read correctly

(one of) my new favourite book(s)

i have many, many favourite books
and this one has just been added to that (not so select) list

it made me feel so simultaneously hopeful and hopeless. but after reading it, i was the happiest i have been for a long time.
it is one of those books which, after finishing, you don't feel quite ready to pick up another one... not yet, anyhow. you need some time to get over the beauty, sadness and spirit-lifting characters and the want/need that they should be real people.
it's not a rare thing for a book to make me cry. but it is rare that i should be crying over a character that never actually meets the protagonist or the reader for that matter.
it's a rare thing to know that every book i read will be compared to this.
(i have also added "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" to my list over the past 4 days)

york

i have fallen in love with this town:

wow. and if i can love it in the pouring rain, having walked for miles with dan constantly saying "oh, i know where we are now" and then promptly getting us lost again, i will be smitten in summer.

Im Juli

what a beautiful film!

dinner party

the classic question: who would i have at my fantasy dinner party?

1. sophie, in case i got tongue-tied and couldn't speak to my guests, i'd have my best there
2. stephen fry, the most interesting, intelligent man i can think of
3. judi dench, one of the most overlooked, brilliant actresses
4. zach braff, iloveyou
5. charlotte bronte, her book is the best thing in my life
6. dumbledore, a fictional character yes, but oh so real in my heart

and that's all, because there'll be seven of us this way
and seven is perfect

the first paragraph

it goes like this
"Language dictates everything, from the way we behave to the way we think. I have had much experience of different cultures, and have always loved the idea that the spoken word can have such an influence over us. My A-Level subjects reflect this in that I have attained, to date, English literature, German and drama as full A-levels. In English and Drama, I have, of course, studied Shakespeare in much depth. Looking at this alongside German, I was struck by the similarities in language, showing me more about both where our language came from and how it has developed."

i cannot wait to go to uni and do this course (fingers, toes and eyes crossed).
they think that language developed as a necessity after early humans began to think intelligently. and that started from looking into the centre of the fire...

"one fire i seem to be stuck with"

oh alice
is leaving for uni in a week!
i can't believe she's off, leaving all of us behind, for a whale of a time in bristol
:(
but at the same time:)

well, off to paint my nails now
peagreen

my fave all time love book

is this


"I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me"

"Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt? May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agonized as in that hour left my lips; for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love"

"Reader, I married him."


i love this book so much
it has everything
and is my everything

no voice,

no time,
no time,
no time.

pressure.pressure

argh

i realised today

that my first impressions are rarely ever right

i start off not liking someone
and then love them

or love someone
then discover we don't get on

and i thought i wouldn't like this film

but i loved it

geeeek

i'm currently working my way through the HP books for about the six-millionth time since i first read them.
my love is growing, day by day, chapter by chapter, word by word (=
biiiig love♥

iamsuchafreak

also, i want to be magic

a weekend

in posh-people-ville is exactly what i needed.

nan's 70th birthday... stayed truly in the lap of luxury
the beds were clouds
we could practically do lengths in our bath
someone flew in in a helicopter
and the waiters even put our napkins on our laps for us


all this struck me as more than a little unnecessary, but nice just for the weekend
who am i kidding? if i could've stayed there, i would

this book

has to be one of the best books i have ever read:
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Winnifred Watson
truly, truly fantastic, with no real drama and no worry that things aren't going to turn out ok; just the thing i needed to cheer me up, with my best friend away for aaages.

please read it

and it's apparently now a film too, although i've never seen it or even seen it advertised. i have to see it

a blight on our society,

is on television right now

a girl on jeremy kyle (who looks about 15) is just telling the world about how she cheated 3 times; tells her fiance that she's on the pill, but actually flushes it down the toilet; and now worries that he'll cheat on her.

why, oh why, am i watching this programme?

because i am addicted, that's why.

a trip to grandma's

today i went to my grandma's down in brighton and saw my lovely cousins for the first time in years.
we had the best day, and my sister, cousins and i went down to the park, and spent our time:





all in all, a fantastic day.

i wish i could have more like this ^^
...
and on another note
a-level results today
happyhappyhappy

what a day

i had:
a fantastic start to my day when i woke up to sophie's radio in her bedroom at some hideous hour of the morning.
an extremely unsatisfying middle of the day when we couldn't buy a cheesecake like we wanted (these things are sent to try us, i know)
and then the dentist, thrilling as usual

now i'm watching The Holiday with my mum and sister