• The BBC
  • rain
  • the post
  • boiled eggs and soldiers
  • my red haired boy
  • Eva Ibbotson (hope, hope)
  • robin's egg blue
feb 6 2012 ∞
feb 6 2012 +
  • cloudless skies
  • iced tea
  • parasols
  • burnt grass
  • watermelon
  • Christmas
  • straw hats
  • cherries
  • sunburnt shoulders
  • dreaming of winter
dec 30 2010 ∞
dec 30 2010 +
  • japanese incense
  • blue gauze gloves
  • polish teapot
  • sylvanian red panda family
  • birdfeeder
  • macarons
  • balloons
  • mouse kisses
oct 26 2010 ∞
oct 26 2010 +
  • freesias
  • the little brook beginning to flow
  • ankle socks
  • daisy chains
  • the East Wind
  • my birthday
  • cabbage butterflies
  • nests of peep-peep
  • oranges and lemons
  • fair weather showers
  • lace shawls
  • bees
  • september, october, november
  • orchard blossom
  • voile
sep 12 2010 ∞
sep 12 2010 +
  • night sky box
  • Rajah (& his Glory)
  • moss rabbit & moon rabbit
  • charm bracelet
  • ballet shoes
  • milky & fleur
  • silver thimble case
  • Reynard
  • baby jewelry
  • books, all of them
  • Miss. Charlotte
  • cornish foxes
  • pocket compass
  • seashell box
  • diaries
  • Blackberry Patch
aug 30 2010 ∞
sep 9 2010 +
  • broken glass
  • snail trails
  • sequins
  • ice crystals
  • mica
  • chandeliers
  • faery dust
  • sunstone
  • dewey grass
  • sunlit waves
  • champagne
  • galaxies
aug 25 2010 ∞
aug 26 2010 +
  • eagle
  • cat's eye
  • horsehead
  • eta carina
  • helix
  • hourglass
  • rosette
  • tarantula
aug 24 2010 ∞
aug 24 2010 +
  • cirrus uncinus
  • cumulus velum
  • altocumulus lenticularis
  • cirrostratus undulatus
  • stratus nebulosus
  • cumulus congestus
  • cirrus intortus
  • cumulonimbus incus
aug 16 2010 ∞
aug 16 2010 +
  • Brocéliande
  • Mossflower Woods
  • Hundred Acre Wood
  • Forest of Burzee
  • The Wood between the Worlds
  • Sherwood Forest
  • The Forbidden Forest
  • Farthing Wood
  • Wayless Woods
  • Neverwood
  • Lantern Waste
aug 12 2010 ∞
aug 15 2010 +
  • Vatnajokull
  • Yulong
  • Biafo
  • Franz Josef
  • Perito Moreno
  • Fox
  • Athabasca
  • Grindelwald
  • Zmutt
  • Myklebustbreen
  • Mer de Glace
aug 11 2010 ∞
aug 12 2010 +
  • Mary Rose
  • Andrea Doria
  • Lusitania
  • Bismarck
  • Belgrano
  • Atocha
  • L'Orient
  • Méduse
  • Grace Dieu
aug 9 2010 ∞
aug 12 2010 +
  • An Education
  • Bright Star
  • Cracks
  • Fairytale, A True Story
  • Heavenly Forest
  • I Capture the Castle
  • L'Ecole
  • Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
  • Pheobe in Wonderland
  • Prancer
  • Bright Young Things
  • The Virgin Suicides
  • Return to Oz
  • The Secret of Roan Inish
  • Finding Neverland
  • A Little Princess
  • Big Fish
  • Heidi
  • The Fox and the Child
  • Marie Antoinette
  • Ballet Shoes
aug 7 2010 ∞
oct 17 2010 +
  • maiden (white tea, carnation and damask rose)
  • titania (white grape, white peach, iced pear, musk rose, sweet pea, moonflower and snapdragon)
  • the lady of shalott (bold gardenia, crystalline musk, muguet, water blossoms, clear, slightly tart aquatic notes and a crush of white ginger)
  • ephemera (sorrowful violet and chamomile with muguet, white geranium, calla lily and tea rose with a hint of autumn leaves)
  • les bijoux (skin musk and honey, blood-red rose, orange blossom, white peach, red apple, frankincense and myrrh)
  • ophelia (lotus, water blossom ivy, stargazer lily and white rose)
  • moonshine and mist (ambergris, white musk, water violet, ylang ylang, magnolia, and white sandalwood)
aug 7 2010 ∞
dec 1 2010 +
  • Venice
  • London
  • Paris
  • Vienna
  • Stockholm
  • Oxford
  • Edinburgh
  • Prague
  • Oia
  • Lucerne
  • St Petersburg
  • Florence
  • Kyoto
  • Salzburg
  • Orvieto
  • Istanbul
aug 4 2010 ∞
aug 12 2010 +
  • Paddington
  • Pooh
  • Corduroy
  • Baloo
  • Iorek Byrnison
  • Rupert
  • Sooty
  • Aloysius
aug 4 2010 ∞
aug 12 2010 +
  • ivory
  • spring green
  • opalescent
  • burgundy
  • burnt sienna
  • robins egg blue
  • cherry blossom pink
  • lemoncello
  • midnight blue
  • chestnut
  • antique gold
  • kinari
  • pale brown
  • moss green
  • lilac
  • every shade of grey
aug 2 2010 ∞
aug 12 2010 +
  • British Museum
  • Cecil Court
  • Kensington Gardens
  • Cromwell Road
  • Victoria & Albert
  • Harrods
  • Portobello Road
  • Seven Dials
  • National Portrait Gallery
  • Hamleys
  • Covent Garden
  • Richmond Park
  • Tower Bridge
  • St Paul's
  • Trafalgar Square
  • Paddington Station
aug 2 2010 ∞
aug 12 2010 +
  • violet
  • tiger lily
  • wild rose
  • star jasmine
  • fresia
  • cornflower
  • buttercup
  • white clover
  • daffodil
  • snowdrop
  • cherry blossom
  • bluebell
  • lily of the valley
aug 2 2010 ∞
aug 12 2010 +
  • clover tea with honey
  • cotton blankets
  • wood fires with pinecones
  • story books
  • violet sweets
  • woolen scarves
  • counting buttons
  • brass doorknobs
  • candlelight
  • bubble baths
  • patchwork quilts
  • tim tams
  • music boxes
  • rabbit fur
  • the evening star
  • nursery rhymes
  • sundried sheets
  • paper dolls
  • patch
  • cirrus clouds
  • nests of books
aug 1 2010 ∞
aug 12 2010 +
  • Lucy Pevensie
  • Alice Liddell
  • Sara Crewe
  • Eloise
  • Maria Merryweather
  • Titty Walker
  • Cassandra Mortmain
  • Fernanda Capel
  • Mildred Hubble
  • Mary Lennox
  • Emily Byrd Starr
  • Lyra Silvertounge
  • Anne Shirley
  • Violet Baudelaire
  • Wendy Darling
  • Meggie Folchart
  • Matilda Wormwood
  • Winnie Foster
aug 1 2010 ∞
aug 12 2010 +
  • Kay Nielsen
  • Arthur Rackham
  • Peter Sis
  • Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
  • Gustave Dore
  • John Bauer
  • Kinuko Y. Craft
  • Brian Froud
  • Alphonse Mucha
  • Edmund Dulac
  • Elenore Abbott
  • Warwick Goble
  • Laurel Long
aug 1 2010 ∞
aug 12 2010 +
  • liber libri (the book)
  • epistola apices (the handwritten letter)
  • adfero differo (the newspaper)
  • imago scriptus (the film print)
  • epistola imago (the postcard)
  • scriptorium publicus (the library)
  • refero epistola imago spp. (the postage stamp)
feb 21 2012 ∞
feb 21 2012 +
  • Spence Academy
  • Egerton Hall
  • Mallory Towers
  • Miss Crabapple's Academy
  • Hailsham
  • Miss Minchin's
  • The Chalet School
  • Hogwarts
  • Miss Cackle's
  • Holly House
  • Delderton
feb 15 2011 ∞
aug 18 2011 +
  • Silphium
  • Cry Violet
  • Silky Frankenia
  • Water Tassel-fern
  • Clubmoss Everlasting
  • Sickle-leaved Waxflower
  • Galapagos Amaranth
nov 4 2010 ∞
nov 4 2010 +
  • C. S. Lewis
  • Stephen Fry
  • Sir P. G. Wodehouse
  • Oscar Wilde
  • John Ruskin
  • Sir J. M. Barrie
  • George MacDonald
sep 20 2010 ∞
sep 20 2010 +
  • Hemingford Grey Manor
  • Ashdown Forest
  • Cambridge
  • Alnwick Castle
  • Dozmary Pool
  • Kynance Cove
  • Whitby
sep 9 2010 ∞
aug 18 2011 +
  • wolves
  • hospitals
  • blindness
  • musk deer
  • Mombi
  • fire
  • falling
  • growing up
  • The Red Bull
  • madness
  • The Nothing
  • loss
  • small spaces
  • Count Olaf
  • Gmork
  • betrayal
  • ocean depths
sep 3 2010 ∞
sep 3 2010 +
  • Time Traveller's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations by Dr. Dan Streetmentioner
  • Deadly Vestments: A History of Inept Military Couture by Antonia Fremont
  • Highly Unpleasant Things It Is Sometimes Good To Know
  • Growing Flowers by Candlelight in Hotel Rooms, by Ms. Charles Fine Adams
  • The Girl Who Walked a Long Way by Olive Wellwood
  • A Defence of my Deeds Written while Wrongly Imprisoned by my Enemies in Newark Castle by Peter Watershippe
  • On the Surface Anatomy of the Human Ear by Sherlock Holmes
  • Grammatical Garden or the Arbour of Accidence pleasantlie open'd to Tender Wits by Pulverentus Siccus
  • Things That Can Happen In European Politics by Ernest Pudding
  • Why Things Are Not Otherwise by Crumberry...
aug 24 2010 ∞
aug 24 2010 +
  • firefly
  • noctilucales
  • glowworm
  • anglerfish
  • quantula striata
  • sparkling enope squid
  • lanternfish
  • jack 'o'lantern mushroom
  • viperfish
  • ghost fungus
  • gulper eel
  • vampire squid
  • pinecone fish
  • honey mushroom
aug 18 2010 ∞
aug 18 2010 +
  • Acton Bell (Anne Brontë)
  • Currer Bell (Charlotte Brontë)
  • Ellis Bell (Emily Brontë)
  • Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler)
  • George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
  • James Tiptree, Jr (Alice Sheldon)
  • Anne Rice (Howard Allen O'Brien)
  • Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
  • Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)
  • Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
  • George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
  • Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
  • Edith Van Dyne (L. Frank Baum)
  • Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
  • George Sand (Amandine Dupin)
  • Pablo Neruda (Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto)
aug 15 2010 ∞
aug 15 2010 +
  • belladona
  • aconite
  • bleeding heart
  • moon flower
  • larkspur
  • doll's eyes
  • foxglove
  • hemlock
  • oleander
  • calla lily
  • fly agaric
  • destroying angel
  • deadly webcap
  • little white
  • yew
aug 11 2010 ∞
aug 12 2010 +
  • china tea cups
  • leaf skeletons
  • happiness
  • snowflakes
  • twigs
  • butterfly wings
  • christmas tree baubles
  • old letters
  • fairy floss
  • dreams
  • egg shells
  • gold leaf
  • skin
  • perfume bottles
  • moments
  • soap bubbles
  • spider webs
  • autumn leaves
  • hope
  • surface tension
  • silk thread
aug 9 2010 ∞
aug 12 2010 +
  • Bastian Balthazar Bux
  • Atreyu
  • Peter Pan
  • Edmund Pevensie
  • Prince Caspian
  • Eustace Scrubb
  • Dickon
  • Chrestomanci
  • Prince Lir
  • Jesse Tuck
  • Teddy Kent
  • Klaus Baudelaire
  • Christopher Robin
  • Will Parry
  • Howl
aug 8 2010 ∞
aug 12 2010 +
  • rose
  • strawberry
  • rowan
  • hawthorn
  • meadowsweet
  • raspberry
  • peach
  • pear
  • dewberry
  • lady's mantle
  • almond
  • firethorn
  • plum
  • cloudberry
  • apricot
  • cherry blossom
  • cotoneaster
  • thimbleberry
aug 8 2010 ∞
aug 12 2010 +
  • morning person
  • eats flowers
  • sometimes a duffer
  • swims poorly
  • falls on her knees
  • can read anywhere
  • long, white nails
  • head in the clouds
  • always stockings
  • bad at multiplication
  • tiny, bony wrists
  • recites poetry in the shower
  • porridge for breakfast
  • green, blue, sea eyes
  • walks fast
  • compulsive beachcomber
  • dislikes gum
  • violet perfume
  • a bit picky
  • shallow breather
  • small feet
aug 6 2010 ∞
aug 12 2010 +
  • cold toes
  • foggy breath (like dragons)
  • crochet
  • three cups of tea a day
  • angora hats
  • cinnamon scrolls
  • thick books
  • puddle jumping
  • wishing for snow
  • honey crumpets
  • fir trees in the wardrobe
  • grey umbrellas
  • butterscotch
  • june, july, august
  • goose feather quilt
  • wind down the chimney
  • never christmas
  • hot chocolate (marshmallows)
  • sherlock holmes
  • itchy wool stockings
  • porridge
aug 2 2010 ∞
aug 12 2010 +
  • embroidery
  • sewing
  • watercolours
  • crochet
  • quilling
  • flower-pressing
  • embossing
  • collage
  • decoupage
  • calligraphy
  • origami
  • papier-mâché
  • pottery
  • cross stitch
  • marbling
  • book-binding
aug 4 2010 ∞
aug 12 2010 +

visited

  • Tintagel
  • Berry Pomeroy
  • Compton (Moonacre)
  • Totnes
  • Muncaster

to visit

  • Alnwick
  • Bran
  • Werfen
  • Edinburgh
  • Chenonceau
  • Neuschwanstein
  • Alcázar
  • Ashford
  • Konopiště
aug 4 2010 ∞
aug 12 2010 +
  • Teasel
  • Reepicheep
  • Despereaux
  • Mrs Frisby
  • Algernon
  • Matthias
  • Cornflower
  • Bernard
  • Miss Bianca
  • Hunca Munca
  • Tom Thumb
  • Primrose Woodmouse
  • Wilfred Toadflax
  • Cervantes
  • Basil of Baker St.
  • Fievel Mousekewitz
aug 2 2010 ∞
nov 4 2010 +
  • oak
  • hawthorn
  • rowan
  • silver birch
  • horse chesnut
  • laburnum
  • holly
  • ash
  • beech
  • hazel
  • willow
aug 2 2010 ∞
aug 12 2010 +
  • alethiometer
  • golden apple
  • susan's bracelet
  • faerie dust
  • green thumb
  • time turner
  • pocket universe
  • cara's locket
  • the doctor
  • burnt letters
  • red hair
  • auryn
  • lost years
  • perfect teeth
  • lili's ring
  • daemon
  • a different school
  • invisibility cloak
  • the moon
  • lucy's gifts
  • sisters
aug 1 2010 ∞
aug 12 2010 +
  • Yann Tiersen
  • Yoko Kanno
  • Cokiyu
  • Akira Kosemura
  • Paniyolo
  • Emilie Simon
  • Piana
  • Erina Koyama
  • Haruka Nakamura
  • Motohira Nakashima
  • Flica
  • Nica
  • PoPoyans
  • Emily Loizeau
  • Joni Mitchell
  • Ichiko Aoba
  • Au Revoir Simone
  • Cecile Corbel
aug 1 2010 ∞
aug 31 2010 +
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dec 4 2013 ∞
dec 4 2013 +
  • inglenook
  • apple trees
  • cottage garden
  • clawfoot bath
  • little brown paws
  • robin song
  • library
  • whiskers
  • woodland walks
  • horse brasses
  • may blossom
  • window seats
  • writing shed
  • You.
jul 14 2011 ∞
jul 18 2011 +
  • bestsellers
  • palm sized gadgets
  • vampire fiction
  • american documentaries
  • fluorescent lighting
  • chinese food
  • telephones
  • 24 hour time
  • asparagus
dec 30 2010 ∞
dec 30 2010 +
  • Puddle Lane
  • Sooty
  • T-bag
  • The Worst Witch
  • The Storyteller
  • Narnia TV-serials
  • Peter Rabbit and Friends
  • Brambly Hedge
sep 9 2010 ∞
sep 9 2010 +
  • elderflower cordial
  • old churchyards
  • hedgerows
  • may blossom
  • cottontails
  • springwatch
  • public footpaths
  • robins
  • conservatories
  • school uniforms
  • slate rooves
  • cream tea
  • bumblebees
aug 31 2010 ∞
aug 31 2010 +
  • darjeeling
  • violet scented
  • matcha
  • lady grey
  • english breakfast
  • masala chai
  • peppermint
  • jasmine
  • red clover
  • sencha
  • sleepytime
aug 25 2010 ∞
aug 25 2010 +
  • books
  • royal gala apple
  • lavender hand cream
  • handkerchief
  • polka dot umbrella
  • notebook
  • Saffron Walnut
  • glittery lip balm
  • parma violets
  • hair pins
  • rail card
  • gloves
  • medicine
  • ephemera
  • house keys
  • cotton purse
  • photo of B.
aug 19 2010 ∞
aug 19 2010 +
  • Basil Stag-Hare
  • The White Rabbit
  • Leo the Lop
  • Miffy
  • The March Hare
  • Rabbit & his relations
  • Friend Hare
  • The Velveteen Rabbit
  • Hazel & Fiver
  • Peter
  • Flopsy, Mopsy and Cotton-tail
  • Benjamin Bunny
  • Cecily Parsley
aug 15 2010 ∞
aug 16 2010 +
  • sherbet lemons
  • humbugs
  • bulls eyes
  • turkish delight
  • parma violets
  • sour apples
  • mint imperials
  • acid drops
  • edinburgh rock
  • strawberry bonbons
  • pear drops
  • ginger creams
aug 11 2010 ∞
aug 12 2010 +
  • Without a wish, without a will, I stood upon that silent hill, And stared into the sky until, My eyes were blind with stars and still, I stared into the sky. Ralph Hodgson

~

  • Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown, Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone ; And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad, And the musk of the rose is blown. Alfred Lord Tennyson

~

  • Who has choices need not choose. We must, who have none. We can love but what we lose - What is gone is gone. Peter S. Beagle

~

aug 10 2010 ∞
aug 12 2010 +
  • barn
  • boobook
  • burrowing
  • eagle
  • masked
  • snowy
  • pygmy
  • screech
  • laughing (last seen 1914)
  • elf
  • fearful
  • spectacled
  • horned
  • powerful
  • rufous
  • stygian
aug 9 2010 ∞
aug 12 2010 +
  • windows
  • tears
  • spectacles
  • glass slippers
  • ice
  • plastic wrap
  • light bulbs
  • bubbles
  • the sea
  • tulle
  • jam jars
  • jellyfish
  • crystal
  • terrariums
  • glasswing butterflies
  • gauze
  • swimming pools
  • petri dishes
  • rain drops
  • ghosts
  • icefish
aug 4 2010 ∞
aug 12 2010 +
  • Charlotte Aïssé
  • Mary Delany
  • Napoleon
  • Ernestine Chassebœuf
  • Sarah Churchill
  • John Keats
  • Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
  • Dorothy Osbourne
  • the Mitford Sisters
  • Héloïse and Abélard
  • Voltaire
  • Florence Nightingale
aug 7 2010 ∞
aug 12 2010 +
  • Anne Frank
  • Violet Bonham Carter
  • Anaïs Nin
  • Vera Brittain
  • Etty Hillesum
  • Emily Shore
  • Anne Lister
  • Marie Vassiltchikov
  • Isabelle Eberhardt
  • Sei Shōnagon
aug 6 2010 ∞
aug 12 2010 +

visited:

  • Alderley Edge
  • Windermere
  • Bowness
  • Coniston
  • Totnes
  • Buckfastleigh
  • Compton
  • Marldon
  • Berry Pomeroy
  • Padstow
  • Constantine Bay
  • Boscastle
  • Tintagel
  • Wadebridge
aug 4 2010 ∞
aug 21 2010 +
  • The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle
  • A Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith
  • Prospero's Children, Jan Siegel
  • Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt
  • Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery
  • Watership Down, Richard Adams
  • The Little White Horse, Elizabeth Goudge
  • Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine
  • A Fine and Private Place, Peter S. Beagle
  • The Starthorn Tree, Kate Forsyth
  • The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
  • Green Smoke, Rosemary Manning
  • The Children of the Green Knowe, L.M. Boston
aug 2 2010 ∞
sep 20 2010 +
  • caged birds
  • little corpses
  • hospitals
  • abandoned houses
  • tree stumps
  • the sea
  • pablo neruda
  • pinned butterflies
  • lost years
  • empty letter boxes
  • children who don't own any books
  • endpapers
aug 2 2010 ∞
aug 30 2010 +
  • Voyage of the Dawn Treader
  • Les Aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec
  • Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
  • Never Let Me Go
  • Somewhere
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows P1
  • Tangled
  • The Nutcracker
aug 2 2010 ∞
oct 23 2010 +
  • picture frames
  • birdsnests
  • bunny rabbit
  • gold shoes
  • old bottles
  • brooches
  • flower press
  • kite
  • pointe shoes
  • teepee
  • white cotton apron
  • puppy
  • dollshouse
  • brown boots
  • headscarves
  • honey and oatmeal soap
  • wellingtons
  • mittens
  • ear muffs
  • antique locket
  • violet tea
aug 1 2010 ∞
oct 9 2010 +
  • heartsease
  • tansy
  • rue
  • angelica
  • wormwood
  • lemon balm
  • red clover
  • peppermint
  • yarrow
  • valerian
  • lavender
  • skullcap
  • comfrey
aug 1 2010 ∞
aug 12 2010 +