• a bba
• b ooks
• c rochet
• d erry girls
• e
• f ishkeeping
• g olden girls
• h ozier
• i
• j
• k nitting
• l attes
• m anicures
• n yt games
• o ranges
• p oetry
• q uizzes
• r odents
• s tudio ghibli
• t ea
• u

• chamomile
• rooibos
  • & honeydew • Teapigs
• English breakfast
• Earl Grey
• green
• hemp
• peach
  • & orange
• peppermint & licorice • Pukka
• strawberries & cream • Hebden Tea

• Abdullah, Kia
• Deary, Terry
• Earle, Phil
• Lapinski, L. D.
• Musson, Hester
• Stower, Adam
• Taylor, Matson

• Chiquitita // Abba
• Would That I // Hozier
• Francesca // Hozier
• You’re Gonna Go Far // Noah Kahan

• 08.02.24 brought home Patch
• 03.03.24 Betty and Estelle died
• 24.03.24 my colleague died
• 25.04.24 clipping. gig
• 11.05.24-18.05.25 holiday in Spain
  • 15.05.24 el Caminito del Rey
• 22.05.24 saw an old friend for the first time in about 8 years; met for coffee two days later
• 19.06.24 Bageriet, Covent Garden, Waterstones Piccadilly, Buckingham Palace, Lady Dinah’s Cat Emporium, given a free fish
• 20.06.24 Foo Fighters at London Stadium, supported by Wet Leg and Shame
• 05.07.24 woke up to a Labour government (+/-)
• 11.07.24 first ever manicure
• 14.07.24 break up
• 07.08.24 promotion at work!

• fairy circles
• bogs
• ancient caves
• airports
• strids
• looking glasses
• the now-abandoned priory my mother worked in
• ruins
• country lanes at night

by Jacqueline Crooks

• ‘sucked into the slipstream of rippling spines.’ (p. 5)
• ‘Nobody knows if he’s lost his mind or found a higher consciousness, like our men who lead the marches and rallies, chanting ‘Black Power’ over the heads of the sistren.’ (p. 6)
• ‘ancient spirits reanimated by sensimilla and body heat.’ (p. 11)
• ‘He plays it cool, but he’s like all the other men–rebels, rude bwoys, my poopa–super-sensitised to danger, set on survival mode, stepping on the streets, torsos swinging from their waists like obeah men, with panoramic views of a world that’s out to get them.’ (p. 11)
• ‘I make my way to my tower block, where grey-white curtains billow like spirits at dark windows and metal coffin lifts shuttle between heaven and hell.’ (p. 14)...

• ‘Africa’
• ‘American Heartbreak’
• ‘Angel Wings’
• ‘Ardella’
• ‘Aunt Sue's Stories’
• ‘Bad Luck Card’
• ‘Ballad of the Girl Whose Name is Mud’
• ‘A Black Pierrot’
• ‘Danse Africaine’
• ‘Daybreak in Alabama’
• ‘Dream Dust’
• ‘Dream Variations’
• ‘Early Evening Quarrel’
• ‘Freedom's Plow’
• ‘Fulfilment’
• ‘Garden’
• ‘Genius Child’
• ‘Hard Daddy’
• ‘Harlem Night Song’
• ‘Havana Dreams’

• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
• Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
• Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• The Princess Bride by William Goldman
• Real Life by Brandon Taylor
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• Sunset by Jessie Cave
• She Would Be King by Wayétu Moore

• knitting
  • gryffindor scarf bookmark
  • mouse bridge
  • mouse pouch
• crochet
  • mouse hammock
• sewing
  • pet bed
• other
  • bracelet in the colours of the Palestinian flag

• born in the mid-90s
• only child of an amazing mother, from a family of working class northerners
• grew up with my heart-dog and heart-cat, and my grandfather’s heart-dog
• parent to fur children, a gerbil and a mouse
• lover of animals always, vegetarian since the age of thirteen
• bachelors and masters (with distinction) in english literature
• anxious and intermittently insomniac since childhood
• once made hozier laugh
• won a television quiz show
• collect books, mugs, and vinyl records
• never finish a book I’m not enjoying
• always rewatching the golden girls
• once asked terry deary if he had a favourite bog body (lindow man)

• signed books
• matcha lattes
• cat cafés
• thunderstorms
• houseplants
• mario kart 8
• finishing a book
• my big, comfy, swivelling armchair
• sleeping in my boyfriend’s arms
• my mouse sitting on my shoulder
• annotating poetry collections
• hot water bottles
• cephalopods
• novelty mugs
• manicures

• Alby
• Asa
• August
• Bram
• Casper
• Ezra
• Fox
• Frederick
• Guy
• Henrik
• Hugh
• James
• Nathaniel
• Noah
• Otis
• Raphael
• Stanley
• William
• Zachariah

• clothes retailer pinterest competition (gift card)
• a television quiz show (cash)
• cat café christmas pun competition (gift card)
• a work sales competition (gift card)

• Daveed Diggs
• Gillian Anderson
• Greg Davies
• Hozier
• James Acaster
• Naoko Mori
• Nish Kumar
• Noah Kahan
• Okieriete Onaodowan

• crochet
• cross stitch
• knitting
• reading

• Africa
  • Egypt
  • Liberia
  • Nigeria
  • Zimbabwe
• the Americas
  • Canada
  • Jamaica
  • Mexico
  • USA
• Asia
  • China
  • Japan
  • South Korea
  • Vietnam
• Europe
  • France

Ancient Egyptian love poetry translated by John L. Foster

• ‘Send him back hard by your lady's small window’
• ‘How clever my love with a lasso’
• ‘I found my love by the secret canal’
• ‘Once more you pass her house, deep in thought’
• ‘I love you through the daytimes’
• ‘Your love, dear man, is as lovely to me’
• ‘My love is back, let me shout out the news’
• ‘When I hold my love close’
• ‘My always love, believe’
• ‘Flee him, my heart—and hurry’
• ‘I just chanced to be happening by’
• ‘Love of you is mixed deep in my vitals’
• ‘Astray or captured, all bear witness’...

• 10 Years // Daði Freyr
• All My Love // Noah Kahan
• Almost (Sweet Music) // Hozier
• Baby Can I Hold You // Tracy Chapman
• Body & Blood // clipping.
• Body for the Pile // clipping.
• The Chain // Fleetwood Mac
• Chapter 319 // clipping.
• Cherry Wine // Hozier
• The Deep // clipping.
• Dial Drunk // Noah Kahan
• Disco 2000 // Pulp
• Don’t Shut Me Down // Abba
• Don’t Take the Money // Bleachers
• Fernando // Abba
• Fly On the Wings of Love // Brødrene Olsen
• Francesca // Hozier
• From Eden // Hozier
• Handsome // The Vaccines
• Here You Come Again // Dolly Parton
• Hyacinth House // The Doors

• the clicking of knitting needles
• rain on the window
• thunderstorms
• the gentle hush of waves
• hozier singing the humours of whiskey
• hot water being poured onto a tea bag
• the page of a book being turned

• James Baldwin
• Angela Y. Davis
• Cass Elliot
• Mona Eltahawy
• Audre Lorde
• Toni Morrison

• banshees
• burglars
• criticism
• ghostface
• hocus pocus
• men that weren’t my grandfather
• mufasa’s ghost in the sky
• police

• dogs (2)
• cats (1)
• guinea pigs (3)
• rabbits (2)
• hamsters (8)
• gerbils (4)
• rats (2)
• fish (x)
• snails (1)
• frogs (1)
• crabs (2)
• sea monkeys (x)
• mice (1)

• big feet
• chunky
• wears a lot of yellow
• eats six times a day
• loves mushrooms
• and po ta toes
• sleeps a lot
• moves quietly

• Danish
• French
• German
• Irish/Gaelige
• Italian
• Japanese
• Portuguese
• Spanish
• Swedish

• 17.11.24 The Santa Clauses
• 24.11.24 Home Alone, Home Alone 2
• 26.11.24 Click & Collect, Home Alone 3
• 04.11.24 Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, Nativity

• apparel
  • boiler suit
  • burgundy long sleeve top
• beauty
  • brown mascara
  • eyelash curlers
• miscellany
  • Himalayan salt lamp
  • jewellery stand

new (small) joys and experiences

• rooibos tea
• manicures
• singlehood
• cocoa butter
• flat sheets
• dating (again)
• fwb

• Ada
• Adeline
• Ariadne
• Beatrice
• Bronwen
• Cecily
• Dorothea
• Eleanora
• Elizabeth (‘Eliza’)
• Estella
• Francesca
• Georgiana
• Guinevere
• Helena (‘Nell’)
• Irena
• Juniper
• Margot, Marguerite
• Mavis
• Miranda
• Nephele
• Nora(h)

• Misfits by Michaela Coel
• Just Ignore Him by Alan Davies
• An Autobiography by Angela Y. Davis
• Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday
• Set the Night on Fire by Robby Krieger, with Jeff Alulis
• Rememberings by Sinéad O’Connor
• Van Gogh's Ear by Bernadette Murphy
• Free by Lea Ypi

• pro
  • abortion
  • animal rights
  • EU
  • feminism
  • nationalised public services
  • Palestine
  • prison abolition
  • saving refugees
  • saving the planet
  • socialism
  • taxing the rich
  • trans rights
  • universal basic income
  • vaccines
• anti
  • austerity
  • factory farming
  • fascism

• ‘you can’t feel nothing small’ — ophelia, the lumineers
• ‘these days I think I owe my life / to flowers that were left here by my mother / ain't that like them? / gifting life to you again’ — first time, hozier
• ‘I will not be great / but I’m grateful to get through’ — abstract (psychopomp), hozier
• ‘what a brilliant thing, to discover we've been wrong about some things, what a brilliant thing it is to grow.’ - misfits: a personal manifesto by michaela coel
• ‘turning up late in a world we had no power in’ — damage gets done, hozier ft brandi carlile

• born slippy (nuxx) // underworld
• doctor jones // aqua
• glamorous // fergie
• knock three times // tony orlando & dawn
• last thing on my mind // steps
• rock the boat // hues corporation
• whenever, wherever // shakira

c'mere to me, I wish I was a mayfly on the River Tay / I'd fit all my joys and my pleasures in one perfect day / I wish I was the sunlight, just sitting on the Mississippi / I'd settle for a shopping trolley in the Liffey

• a cat asleep under a bookshop table
• a bird on its branch, holding fast in a storm
• bronzed and freckled with a touch of red on my cheeks and sun-bleached hair
• an early-riser
• a witch with her familiar
• walking my dog across the field and down the bridle path
• a beekeeper
• on the right side of history
• the sunrise
• a dormouse
• a revolutionary
• on stage at Shakespeare’s Globe

• keys
• purse
• water
• book
• kindle
• pocket mirror
• tweezers
• lip balm
• lipstick
• deodorant
• hand sanitiser
• ear pods
• ear plugs
• baby wipes
• plasters
• painkillers
• pads

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