• between pages of books
• biscuits dipped in strawberry paste
• freshly laundered clothes
• mushroom soup
• petrol
  • (most curious, I know)
• pines (detergent)

A

• acrasial (lost word): ill-tempered
• adoxography : skilled writing on an unimportant subject
• agelast : a person who never laughs
• atrous : jet black
• autotonsorialist : one who cuts their own hair

B

• brontide : the low rumbling of distant thunder

C

• cafuné : the act of tenderly running one's fingers through someone's hair
• capernoited : slightly intoxicated
• charientism : an artfully veiled insult
• clithridiate : key-hole-shaped
• cruciverbalist : one who loves doing crossword puzzles

D

• defenestrate : to throw out of a window

• Cork, Ireland
• Edinburgh, Scotland
• Florence, Italy
• London, England
• Melbourne, Australia
• New Orleans, U.S.A.
• Paris, France
• Prince Edward Island, Canada
• Provence, France
• Santa Fe, U.S.A.

• Apple scent parfum (France)
• Bodleian Library key chain (England)
• dark blue sweater, now several sizes smaller (Perth, Australia)
• Greenwich key chain (England)
• hairbrush (Perth, Australia)
• pocket-sized moleskine from Anna (England)
• postcard from Katherine (U.S.A.)
• purple Niagara Falls boy wallet (Canada)
• purple Royal Botanic Garden Kew bookmark (England)
• yet another key chain featuring the Great Walls of China (China)

10 things you want for christmas:

• chocolate cake
• family
• floral print skirts
• fruit punch
• oxford shoes
• period drama dvds
  • Downton Abbey
  • Sense and Sensibility (2008)

9 musicians/bands you love:

• Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
• Katie Melua
• Raconteurs
• Stacey Kent

• chey: words
• chriss: the senses; favourite sounds
• lou: historical periods
• shirley: observations: visual
• stefania: music
• vera: sanctuaries

• Breakfast of a Champion, Kurt Vonnegut
• Dreams of a Dark Warrior, Kresley Cole
  • GUILTY PLEASURE THIS
• Emma, Jane Austen
• Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
• Graveyard Book, the, Neil Gaiman
• History of Love, the, Nicole Krauss
• Illiad, the, Homer
• Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
• War Poems, various

• Average span of a human life is 75 years.
• Beings (or at least us humans) are attracted -- the poets say this is "falling in love" -- to other beings through any one of the three senses: olfactory, touch & sight. So this is why "love at first sight" does not apply to everyone.
• Countries down below are part of the Oceania.
• Different colours have different sounds.
• Meteorites are not necessarily rocks from outer space, they could be chunks of other planets.
• A new planetary system has been discovered.
• Uranus is askew beyond 90 degrees -- unlike other planets; either Saturn or Jupiter is not askew at all.
• VY Canis Majoris is the largest star in the universe so far.

Sources: Discovery Science (mostly), Disc...

• Alma Singer
• Amélie Poulain
• Anne Elliot
• Anne Shirley
• Anna (from When Marnie Was There)
• Cassie Aisling
• Catherine Morland
• Éowyn of Rohan
• Hermione Granger
• Jane Bennet
• Matilda
• Meg March
• Susan Pevensie
• Susie Salmon
• Violet Baudelaire