I luf them

More. Many, many more on the National Geographic site.

bedtime stories

Wanna read a good story? For free? My lovely Scotty has branched out of screenwriting for a brief sojourn into novella-land and is posting it online. I’m special and have read the whole thing already and I can assure you, it’s worth waiting for. You can read Part I and Part II now though. It’s a fascinating story set over three days at a Horror Convention in Florida. It’s fab.

The whole lot will be here in its entirety when it’s done.

everything i know i learned from a tree

The BBC asks what we can learn from climbing trees.  It seems that tree-climbing has gone rather out of favour and of course, I find this a jolly great shame. I was really rather pleased to find that my daughter and her friends were spending their afternoons in a tree near their school.

I spent loads of time in trees when I was growing up. One of my earliest memories is of a marvelous grassy park with a thick verge of mature trees that at the time seemed a veritable forest. I suppose it was more likely a few small trees. The last tree I remember climbing was in Italy - a giant cherry tree just next to our house, that I climbed to harvest its fat juicy fruit. I didn’t hang about to admire the view, however, as the tree often had more ants than cherries.

I think I’m due a tree climb in the near future.

beautiful botanicals

Kew opens botanical art gallery. Shame the video isn’t embeddable. In Pictures. 

cat revived by firefighters

I found this story really touching. It must have been heart-breaking to see a cat clawing at the windows trying to get out of a burning building, of course, but also might be considered by some beyond the call of duty to save it. Not me, I hasten to add…

dive in…

to some fab Flickr pools:

Mid-century neighbourhoods

1960’s Interior Design and Residential Architecture

Lovely 60s Girls

Vintage Paperback

Pulp Fiction

Mid-century modern interiors

That should keep you busy…

is pink the new red?

I suppose that would do just as well, but I’m not really a pink kinda gal. 

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