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Welcome to Junk Wonderland...enjoy your stay

The location house we are in today fills me with electricity as soon as I walk throught the door. I am charged with an urge to drop my bags and run from room to room touching things and looking, like a child in a toy store.




The owner has been here for 50 years, and has seemingly kept everything from then, frozen in a spooky timewarp covered in dust. I am transfixed by the collections of dusty bottles, of all colours and sizes, by the literally hundreds of pictures and plates and religious hangings covering every wall, eyes looking at you from portraits and dolls, figurines.
Kicking myself for not bringing my camera, I try and absorb it all, then remember the camera on my phone.

I want to be a child here, to celebrate my 10th birthday with a party, where animals and children would join me in the Alice in Wonderland garden and we would roam thru the house, up and down the dusky stairways, in and out of rooms full of wonder, dressed in grown-up gowns with strings and strings of beads around our necks.

Today was a good day, an important one for my career. A crossing over into the next level.
It is all happening now.

Reveries...

I am dreaming of India, the colours and smells that will greet me, I am dreaming of the noise and of the silence I will find within it.

Don't you love it when music is so good, you have to sit in your car after reaching your destination, just to finish the track...?
Finding forever by Common is a sublime listen. Get it even if you don't like hiphop. Even if, like me, you don't really listen to the words.
Surprise yourself with music. Its such a beautiful gift.
Another new fave is Kate Walsh. Her CD Tim's House is sweet melancholia at its best. Reminds me of my life before.

Don't you love it when you go back to a store to buy the item you've been dreaming about, and they only have one left, and it's in your size,
AND on clearance...?

Don't you love it?

Man, what happened to summer. A sprinkling of hot days back in April and a few blazers a couple of weekends ago, and that was IT. The national hope was for a late summer, enjoying humid August evenings in the park, the season stretching its arms into Autumn, but the energy feels like September to me. It's been years since I've gone 'Back to school' but I still get that September feeling, that sense that something is starting over.
There is a crispness to the air and I'm dreaming of new boots.

wishing you a speedy recovery xxx

the nicest thing

After 10 or so weeks at the top of the British charts with 'Umbrella', Rihanna has fallen. And with that, the sun is back after...well, 10 weeks or so. 'Sweird, eh?

I have lost my voice. My vocal cords give me only whispered enunciations dotted with a sporadic breaking into sound, like an adolescent boy.
SO annoying.


Listening to...
Nicest Thing-Kate Nash
There For You-Damian Marley


Best Bits of the Week

Best moment...shooting down by the river, with a team that I put together, trying to beat the tide, making magic happen.

Best conversation...after he finished extolling the superiority of one brand of monkey nuts over all others, I ask my favorite hairstylist in the world, Martyn;

'So if the monkeys came back to claim you...would you go?'
His dead serious reply
'Of course. In a heartbeat.'

I would miss him, but i get it.

Best Song for wishing you were playing the lead teenage female role in an 80's coming of age movie, and it was your brown skin he was singing about...Boys of Summer by Don Henley

Best movie i've seen in aaaages...Notes on a Scandal

Best newfound obscure comedy...Flight of the Conchords. Episode 1-I have never heard a more refreshingly realistic lovesong, ever. Just brilliant.