generic post title mentioning snow.

sorry it's been a while since we last talked, i've been feeling a bit ill & uninspired and, not wanting to burden you all with my dullness, i stayed silent.

this week, as i'm sure my british readers will confirm, has been fairly chaotic due to everybody freaking out over the large amount of snow we have received recently. we've missed three days of school this week, which is good in some respects as i had a chance to meet up with some friends & enjoy a spot of well-deserved rest, but bad in others as it means sadly my fellow a-level students & i have no excuse for not doing work.

anyway, a couple of my friends & i had a walk in our local park for the day. it was lovely, and it really reminded me how absolutely beautiful the natural world can be sometimes. i mean, nothing manmade even comes close.

the park has a river running through it, and the oxbow lake beside it was pretty much frozen over! we decided to take a walk down to the bird-watching shelter which is in a completely isolated part of the park where the snow was completely undisturbed, & as we got there it started snowing heavily again.

i quite like this picture, even though i have a complete moonface. my hair & skin are completely wrecked thanks to central heating, stinging cold weather & being mashed under hats. that last one only applies to my hair, obviously, which resembles a bad wig at the moment.

my giveaway ends at midnight tonight, so you still have a good 9 hours to enter!

now i must return to my english coursework, or find yet more inventive ways to avoid it.

ps. both photographs stolen from my friend kate.

baby, we were born to run.

things that made me smile today.

getting a B on my english essay.

learning funny numbers in german.

wearing the bruce springsteen tshirt i bought at the weekend, then getting to school & finding out that my friend (who i bought the tshirt with) was also wearing it!

throwing playing cards around.
my art teacher liking my final piece idea (:
having another friend back at school.
being amused at the way tennessee williams died.
finding i have a new follower *wave*
mucking about in spanish & translating insults & obscure beatles lyrics.
walking home from the doctors in the dark & the snow listening to belle & sebastian & feeling like i was in an achingly lovely indie film.

reading my emails & finding i've be invited to help out at a jewellery & vintage fair.
watching notting hill with my momma.
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i hope you've all had things that make you smile today (:

goodbye england (covered in snow)

in the post this morning, i received a thick cardboard envelope with the words fragile: DO NOT BEND on it.

for a moment i was confused as to what was in it, but then i remembered about the vinyl laura marling EP i ordered.

*major excitement time*

the single is called goodby england (covered in snow) which seems very appropriate right now what with all the wintry weather we've been having.

the illustration on the front is lovely, and the song itself is hauntingly beautful.

the record has the pattern of branches on the back too, so cute.

you were so smart then in your jacket and coat

my softest red scarf was warming your throat

winter was on us at the end of my nose

but I never love england

more than when covered in snow.

but a friend of mine says it's good to hear

that you believe in love even if set in fear

well i'll hold you there brother and set you straight

i won't make believe that love is frail

and willing to break

i will come back here, bring me back when I'm old

i want to lay here forever in the cold

i might be cold but I'm just skin and bones

and I never love england

more than when covered in snow.

i wrote my name in your book, only god knows why

and i bet you that he cracked a smile

and i'm clearing all the stuff out of my room

trying desperately to figure out

what it is that makes me blue

and i wrote it in a big letter to you

and it's 25 pages front and back

and it's too good to be used

and i tried to be a girl who likes to be used

i'm too good for that

there's a mind under this hat and i

called them all and told them i've got to move

i'm out man , it's too hard

feel like running, feel like running

running off.

nd we will keep you, we will keep you little one

safe from harm, like an extra arm

you are part of us.

you were so smart then in your jacket and coat

and my softest red scarf was warming your throat

winter will leave us, left the end of my nose

so goodbye old england 'till next years snow

ziggy stardust

happy snow day!

cause the photos are too small in my last post, and i'm too darn lazy to re-do it

& it's snowing again!

i have 600 new songs on my ipod.

:O

don't quite know i'm going to listen to all of them, but i'll update on the ones i like :)

home again

3rd day off school in a week, oh my dorothy we really are not in kansas any more.

yesterday it snowed about 4 inches in just a few hours and, deciding not to waste the beautiful weather, i went outside for a bit of a wander & to generally fool about with the brother.

pretty snowy tree :)

i saw this big ass icicle outside my dad's window, cute no?
sadly it didn't last long as i made the mistake of telling the brother about it, and he broke it off & smashed it into many tiny pieces on the ground.

but i found some more!
not quite as pretty, but a bit like jack frost's fingers i think.

i don't really do location outfit posts (in fact, i don't really consciously do outfit posts), but the snow was so fresh & white i thought it was the perfect backdrop for my insane purple/turquoise apparel.
coat - h&m, scarf - gift, jumper - gift, tshirt (underneath) - matalan (yes, i shop there. and i'm proud :), trousers - h&m, wellies - my sister's (but not any moreee!)

me throwing snow in the air 'cause i am hilariously cool.

gosh, these photos turned out unexpectedly small, apologies everyone.

hope everybody has a good day, regardless of whether it is snowy or not :)