• Tupelo Nyssa sylvatica
• Pacific dogwood Cornus nuttalli
• Transcaucasian birch Betula medwedewii 'gold bark'
• Ornamental vine Vitis vinifera 'purpurea'
• Maidenhair tree Ginkgo biloba

• try to read much more poetry
• reduce my wardrobe; invest in essential, classic items of clothing
• learn to be more articulate
• reduce time spent online
• embrace passion for early childhood education; try to build my confidence in my teaching ability

• An Education
• Atonement
• Black Swan
• Bright Star
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows
• Jane Eyre
• Lost in Translation
• Matilda
• Miss Potter
• Peter Pan (2003)
• Pride and Prejudice (2005)
• Sherlock Holmes
• The Duchess
• The History Boys
• The Lord of the Rings
• The Young Victoria

• flower garlands
• boater hats and ankle socks
• dried lavender
• first class honours
• needles and thread
• soft fragrant roses
• light jasmine, honeysuckle
• dear, dear children
• delicately pressed flowers

• bluebells
• brooklime
• common field speedwell
• cuckoo flower
• enchanter's nightshade
• forget-me-not
• orchid
• oxeye daisy
• primrose
• queen anne's lace
• scarlet pimpernel/shepherd's weatherglass
• sowbread
• violet
• windflower

• waking up to warm sunshine
• flowers in full bloom; exquisite colours
• lush green grass; birdsong, shade from full trees, walking barefoot
• cool summer evening, warm fragrant breezes
• bumblebees, dragonflies, butterflies
• trips to the seaside; icecream, warm sand, rosy cheeks
• hazy afternoon sunshine, reading a book in the park
• cloudless skies stretching into infinity

• first day of school
• skirts, socks, and shoes
• dance classes
• gold stars
• pretending to be twins
• 20 pence for penny sweets
• nursery rhymes
• birthday party dresses
• fairies returning my lost bear
• bears and pirates in my woods with my father
• cobweb on the ceiling
• sandcastles
• red bicycle, the green
• weaving willow branches
• kiss chase
• yellow buses
• 'in an old house in Paris'

• salty sea breezes
• buckets and spades, building sandcastles
• rock pools; exploring lagoons for treasures
• collecting shells and mermaid's purses
• sand in between toes; walking barefoot along the path
• braving the cold sea

• Malory Towers
• Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
• Beauxbatons Acadamy of Magic
• Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies
• Cutler's Grammar School
• Dotheboys Hall
• Durmstrang Institute of Sorcery
• Lowood School
• Prufrock Preparatory School

• Jack Dawkins
• Peter Pan
• Charley Bates
• Tootles
• Klaus Baudelaire
• Oliver Twist
• Wiggins
• The Little Prince

• Alohomora
• Defodio
• Diffindo
• Evanesco
• Expecto Patronum
• Expelliarmus
• Geminio
• Impedimenta
• Incarcerous
• Incendio
• Langlock
• Legilimens
• Levicorpus
• Locomotor Mortis
• Lumos
• Nox
• Obliviate
• Petrificus Totalus
• Riddikulus
• Serpensortia
• Silencio

• acacia (secret love)
• aconite (misanthropy)
• anemone (unfading love)
• white carnation (sweet and lovely)
• purple carnation (whimsy)
• cherry blossom (transience of life)
• white clover (i promise)
• red daisy (beauty unknown to possessor)
• moonflower (dreaming of love)
• pitch pine blossom (philosophy)
• poppy (eternal sleep; imagination)
• witch hazel (magic spell)

• bread-and-butterflies
• rocking-horse-flies
• the jabberwock
• bandersnatch
• borogroves
• mome raths
• the caterpillar
• the mock turtle
• dormouse
• dodo
• jubjub bird
• the white rabbit
• snap-dragonfly
• tove
• the march hare
• cheshire cat

• 里美　(satomi)
• 歩美 (ayumi)
• 千恵　(chie)
• Liliana
• Fiona
• Niamh
• Madeline
• Saoirse
• Élise
• Amélie
• 하늘 (haneul)
• 이슬 (iseul)
• 梅 (Méi)
• 懷民 (Hwai-min)

• Mary Pickford
• Phyllis Dare
• Clara Bow
• Lillian Gish
• Billie Burke
• Lily Elsie
• Lillian Russell

• L. Frank Baum The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
• Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar
• Christopher Marlowe Edward II
• Virginia Woolfe To the Lighthouse
• John Donne Various poems
• Andrew Marvell Various poems
• Dan Brown Angels and Demons
• John Ford 'Tis Pity She's A Whore
• John Milton Paradise Lost
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wallpaper
• Alice Sebold The Lovely Bones
• George Orwell Animal farm
• Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker The Changeling
• William Shakespeare
  • As You Like It
  • King Lear
• Aldous Huxley Brave New World
• Martin Heidegger Being and Time
• 20th Century Literary Criticism

• tendency to romanticise things
• introverted; very tired and unusually weary after social situations
• as timid as a mouse
• sometimes really would just like to stay hidden away with a book
• fickle and flighty, too much of a drifter
• tendency to drift from reality
• failure to leave childhood behind
• moved to tears from the beauty of simple and mundane things
• over-analyse everything
• practically fall in love with every man that makes eye contact with me
• solipsistic tendencies

• wax sealed love letters
• gentle hush of whispers
• trinket boxes
• running wild through crafted lands
• overgrown gardens
• hearts and minds

• gentle rain
• whispers
• waves against the sand
• wind rustling leaves
• distant thunder
• flames crackling
• babbling brooks and streams
• birds chirping, singing
• waves in a seashell

(from starsmending)

• Flower: roses, wisteria, lilies, bluebells
• Colour: dusty pink
• Noise: grandfather clocks, birdsong, heavy rain
• Scents: freshly baked bread, jasmine, summer rain, salty sea breezes, cut grass, cloves
• Feeling: warm sand, soft grass, cold breezes in summer, soft kisses
• Instrument: violin, piano
• Season: Summer, Autumn
• Weather: summer storms, frozen skies
• Tea: english breakfast tea
• Eye Colour: Hazel.
• Clothing colour: neutral, dusty colours
• Music: Classical, folk, indie
• Animal: cats, fallow deer, birds, wild horses,
• Time of day: dawn, late evening.

• January
  • The Plague - Albert Camus
  • The Lees of Happiness - F.Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Cut-Glass Bowl - F.Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Hell of it All - Charlie Brooker
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - F.Scott Fitzgerald
• February
  • The Stranger - Albert Camus
  • Tête à Tête: Simone de Beavoir x Jean-Paul Sarte biography
  • The Death of Ivan Ilych - Leo Tolstoy
  • Notes From the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus
  • No Exit - Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
  • Peter Pan J.M. Barrie
  • Cloud, Castle, Lake - Vladimir Nabokov
• March

• wake up at dawn
• eat croissants for breakfast
• bake things other than cakes
• read books in cafés
• explore local parks and gardens
• live less materialistically

• flower gardens in the summer
• seeing a particular boy
• wishing wells
• cherry blossom in the wind
• the happy prince
• searching for four-leaf clovers
• the smell of my Chloé perfume
• hot buttered toast
• smiling faces

• atlantis
• el dorado
• lemuria
• camelot
• charn
• númenor
• agartha
• avalon
• eden
• elysian fields
• tir na nÓg
• nysa
• shambhala
• shangri-la
• utopia

• amaryllis (shy)
• 椿 camellia (longing)
• 梔子 gardenia (secret love)
• 百合 lily of the valley (sweet)
• 彼岸花 red spider lily (never to meet again; lost memory)
• 蓮華 lotus (far from the one he loves)
• 薔薇 white rose (silence)

• the cheshire cat
• the cat in the hat
• bagpuss
• dinah
• salem
• tabitha twitchit
• tom kitten
• mittins
• moppet
• duchess
• figaro
• gray-malkin
• puss-in-boots
• lady jane

• Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson)
• Currer Bell (Charlotte Brontë)
• Acton Bell (Anne Brontë)
• Ellis Bell (Emily Brontë)
• Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
• George Orwell (Eric Blair)
• Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler)
• Boz (Charles Dickens)
• Molière (Jean Baptiste Poquelin)
• Dr Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)
• Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)

• Franz Kafka
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Jean-Paul Sartre
• George Orwell
• Albert Camus
• Oscar Wilde
• Charles Dickens

• yellow and orange and brown
• rustle of falling leaves
• early sunset
• contrast of cold outside and warm inside..
• bundled up in coats and scarves and gloves
• rosy cheeks and noses
• halloween and christmas
• conkers on the ground
• birds leaving for winter
• grey skies and the flurry of snow
• frozen cobwebs like strings of pearls
• frost like lace

• June
  • Immortality - Milan Kundera *
  • The Miserable Mill - Lemony Snicket
  • The Ersatz Elevator - Lemony Snicket
• July
  • The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
  • The Secret History - Donna Tartt *
• August
  • Ignorance - Milan Kundera
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera *

• F.Scott Fitzgerald
  • Tender is the Night (Penguin Hardback Classics)
  • The Great Gatsby (Penguin Hardback Classics)
  • The Beautiful and the Damned- (Penguin Hardback Classics)-
• J.M. Barrie
  • Peter Pan (Puffin Hardcover Classics)
• Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • The Secret Garden (Puffin Hardcover Classics)
• A.A. Milne
  • Winnie-the-Pooh
  • Now We are Six
• P.L Travers
  • Mary Poppins

• The Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams
• Madeline - Ludwig Bernelmans
• A Bear Called Paddington - Michael Bond
• The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• The Story of Babar - Jean De Brunhoff
• The Tale of Peter Rabbit - Beatrix Potter
• Winnie-the-Pooh - A.A. Milne
• Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
• Where The Wild Things are - Maurice Sendak
• The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

• learn to embroider
• sketch and paint watercolours of animals and scenery
• visit local gardens and heritage houses (national trust and private)
• go for bicycle rides in the countryside
• trips to favourite norfolk coastal and seaside locations
• learn how to bake bread and various cakes
• accompany parents to antiques sales and auctions
• flower pressing
• search for the perfect apartment for september

• a love of books; stories and fairy-tales
• a never ending curiousity and wonder
• to embrace imagination and make-believe
• to be brave
• to cherish their dreams

• blossom floating in the breeze
• morning bird song
• meadows of flowers; blossoming in every nook and cranny
• easter celebrations
• bright sunshine and cold breezes
• flowers awakening
• my birthday
• butterflies
• april showers
• new life

• down a rabbit hole
• through a wardrobe
• the second star to the right
• a hurricane
• in a fireplace
• through a mirror

• regency or victorian townhouse
• gated front steps
• an atic full of secrets
• window boxes of summer flowers
• a concealed, secret garden
• walls covered with ivy and vines
• wunderkammer full of ephemera and curiosities
• an antique bureau for letter writing
• bookcases and books stacked in every room
• an arm chair by a fireplace to lose myself in books
• patterned wallpaper and creaky floorboards
• framed portrait paintings of lost souls
• house plants and house cats

• aos sí
• kelpie
• grindylow
• changelings
• barghest
• wulvers
• puck
• cù sìth
• boggart
• wyrm
• black shuck
• tiddy mun
• redcap
• gytrash

• regent street
• baker street
• drury lane
• downing street
• oxford street
• portobello road
• shaftesbury avenue
• chancery lane
• fleet street
• savile row
• threadneedle street
• brick lane

• Leonardo da Vinci
• Caravaggio
• Rembrandt
• Raphael
• Michelangelo
• Titian
• Peter Paul Rubens
• Andrea del Sarto

• neverland
• wonderland
• diagon alley and hogsmeade
• the enchanted forest
• narnia
• the land of oz
• looking-glass land
• hundred acre wood

• Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe 1869
• Fingers and Fortune: A Guide Book to Palmistry Eveline Michell Farwell (David Stott, 370 Oxford Street) 1886
• Stepping Heavenward E. Prentiss (Ward, Lock & Co) 1896
• Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 1902
• Alice in Wonderland Lewis Caroll (S.W. Partridge & Co) 1910
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass Lewis Caroll (William Clowes & Sons) 1920
• Plato Selected Passages (Oxford) 1941
• A Short History of French Literature Laurence Bisson (Pelican) 1945
• King Lear Shakespeare (Pitt Press) 1947