When sunny gets blue

The Goddess Experience by Gisele Scanlon is probably the best anti-dote. That, and dreams of the pool house, creamed teas, crisp chilly mornings and endless dotti sprees.

Furball Love Affair

SodaCat mysteriously appears in our lives one night and since then we've been party to all manner of weird and wonderful things like her soft bleating mews, incessant creepy stalking and her inexplicable penchant for dog food.

Image of Cheshire from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland

The Wandering Dreamer

Once upon a time there was a little girl named Goldilocks. She went for a walk in the forest. Pretty soon, she came upon a house. She knocked and, when no one answered, she walked right in.

Pictures taken online from a selection of the absolutely most beautiful houses in the world.

Naima

Much of what I listen to is lifted from my sister, a woman with exceptionally refined taste in many things, the most significant of which is music. Here's one for you, Cow. I love you.

4Hero's tribute to John Coltrane's Naima

Friday Fantasy

image from vainandvapid

This is what I'll be wearing to a client meeting on my very last day as a headhunter, after which I'll hang up my bow and arrow for good. 

New Friends

Considering I hardly make friends and generally hate the concept of introducing new things in my life, I've done quite well this month with this motley lot.

Gargoyle from The Pickled Fairy, a magical shop in Freo, courtesy of Janice my sister-in-law.

The Grey Converse who walked home with me one skiving afternoon.

About a hundred strangers from all over the world.

It Feels Like Christmas

The weather's gone all haywire. Floods in June, cool breezy afternoons in July. As long as I'm not robbed of my Christmas weather come December, it can rain all day every day in summer for all I care.