• We all get to rug up in multiple layers
• It is perfect for snuggling beneath a doona in the morning
• It makes everything look prettier
• We can wear gloves and scarves and stockings without looking like crazy people
• The winter holidays are short enough that you work extra hard not to waste a single day
• The warmth of the fire place
• The smell of the fire place
• The way my significant other puts his jacket on my shoulders if i am cold even when i tell him i don't need it..he knows i actually do
• Being cold and walking into a warm spot where the sun shines through the trees
• Wearing daggy winter socks, because lets face it, it is cold enough for daggy to be cool again
• Spending lazy days in bed, under one hund...

Its a lovely sensation, reading one's words and feeling them as your own...

• To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
• The Birth of Venus - Sarah Dunant
• Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin
• The Pact - Jodi Picoult
• Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
• The Rules of Attraction - Bret Easton Ellis
• Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
• The Farseer Trilogy - Robin Hobb
• The Time Travelers Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
• Cloudstreet - Tim Winton

• It blows
• It sucks
• It costs money
• It reinforces the notion that you are not as smart as you know you are
• It consumes my wine drinking time
• It restricts my creativity
• It is grey and cement like
• It involves getting out of bed when its still dark and cold outside
• It doesn't love me
• It promotes capitalism
• It is not for the 'real' world
• It has tutor's that tell lies...and make up new rules on the spot
• It makes me sad/angry/crushed/frustrated/exhausted/deflated/limp!

• creative conversations, witty banter and secret sharing
• drinking gin and dancing around my bedroom to music
• asian take-away and red wine
• walking when its windy
• hand written notes
• woolen cardigans and scarves
• tossing my hair when i dance
• holding hands with the boy that gives me butterflies
• feeling inspired, hopeful and beautiful
• snuggling between clean sheets
• picnics in the dark with candles
• books with perfectly imperfect characters
• 80's hair cuts and sunglasses
• thayer street and AS220
• sharing a slice of cheesecake with someone special
• waking up smiling

• The group of amazingly intelligent, funny and charismatic girls that contribute
• The ever changing locations - Brisbane cafes beware!
• The love-hate character rants that ensue over coffee
• That we are all always late
• Natalie's 1000 post-it notes scattered through our chosen novel
• That To Kill a Mockingbird always comes up regardless of whether it is that month's book or not
• That we enjoy each others company so much that sometimes we have book club without a book.
• The book club excursions - Lifeline book fair, yoga, movie tie-in's etc.
• The non-conformity to traditional book club methods
• That even in books read 10 times, after discussing it at book club, i have new foo...

• the intense conversations i had with my significant other
• the large amount of wine i consumed, and when i say, i mean we
• late night snuggling in bed
• waking up next to someone beautiful
• the mutual agreement that PEZ are in the top 10 list of best things ever
• buying kitchy things at the markets
• having a pretty boy buy me a pretty necklace
• walking arm around shoulder down Brunswick street
• drinking coffee, even if it did taste rather disgusting
• sitting on a comfortable couch whilst drinking tea and observing people that are intriguing to look at and listen to
• falling into deep unbroken sleep
• kisses
• hugs