• astronomer
  • audiobook reader
  • calligrapher
  • cats rescuer
  • constellations marker
  • fireworks photographer
  • hot air balloon pilot
  • kindergarten teacher
  • mother
  • pâtissier (specialise in anything chocolate & cheese)
  • pirate
  • philosopher
  • reference librarian (virtual)
  • socks designer
  • translator at the geneva
  • waitress at a french restaurant
feb 2 2011 ∞
feb 3 2011 +
  • au revoir
  • bereft
  • clara
  • constellation
  • demure
  • disappear
  • enthralled
  • esprit de l’escalier
  • eunoia
  • extempore
  • felicitas
  • fleeting
  • fleur
  • forelsket
  • ghost
  • home
  • hullo
  • jacklight
  • lacuna
  • lljubjena
  • melancholy
apr 25 2010 ∞
feb 7 2011 +
  • absence of heat
  • barking dogs
  • dinosaur for an internet connection
  • instant mushroom soup
  • late mornings
  • meowing cats
  • mum at the door
  • saying goodbyes never hellos
  • white noise
feb 1 2011 ∞
feb 2 2011 +
  • animals for companions
  • attic
  • bay windows
  • creaky floorboards
  • floor-to-ceiling bookshelves
  • french doors
  • garden gnomes
  • glass jars
  • gramophones
  • hedges (no fences)
  • lanterns
  • little pots of flowers by the windows
  • little hideouts
  • old suitcases
  • old gas lamps
  • outdoor hammock
  • pantry room
  • pocketsized garden
  • shoe boxes
  • swings
  • trees (and treehouses)
feb 2 2011 ∞
feb 3 2011 +
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  • Anastasia (1997)
  • Anne of Green Gables (1985)
  • Amélie (2001)
  • Beauty and the Beast (1991)
  • Bright Star (2009)
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
  • Chronicles of Narnia, the
    • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
    • Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)
  • Coraline (2009)
  • Finding Nemo (2003)
  • Harry Potter and ...
    • the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
    • the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
  • Juno (2007)
  • Lion King, the (1994)
  • Little Women (1994)
  • Lord of the Rings, the
jan 28 2011 ∞
feb 6 2011 +
  • blue bulb & pink Minnie Mouse lamp
  • blunt pencils
  • boy suspenders
  • cloth swing
  • drawings of carrots on the wall
  • Enid Blyton books
  • Nancy Drew books
  • one beloved crippled cat named Mimi
  • pink bunny with one eye
  • Raphael the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle stuffed toy
  • red gardening boots
  • ribbons of various colours
  • stethoscope
  • surgeon teddy
  • video cassettes & player
    • Road Runner & Wild E. Coyote
    • Looney Tunes cartoons, basically
  • watercolour paints
  • yellow raincoat
feb 3 2011 ∞
may 24 2011 +
  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • C. S. Lewis
  • Charles Simic
  • Charlotte Brontë
  • Enid Blyton
  • J. K. Rowling
  • J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Jane Austen
  • Joan G. Robinson
  • John Keats
  • Kresley Cole
  • Kristy Bowen
  • Kurt Vonnegut
  • Leonard Cohen
  • L. M. Montgomery
  • Lisa Kleypas
  • Louisa May Alcott
  • Margaret Atwood
  • Neil Gaiman
  • Nicole Krauss
  • Pablo Neruda
feb 3 2011 ∞
feb 3 2011 +
  • bed
  • Cair Paravel in the Golden Era
  • cinemas
  • bookshops
  • Hogwarts
  • journal
  • by the lampposts
  • Lantern Waste
  • libraries & museums
  • planetariums
  • seashores
  • Shire
feb 3 2011 ∞
feb 4 2011 +

Female

  • Alma
  • Carrington
  • Clementine
  • Coraline
  • Deirdre
  • Emmeline (Emma, Em for short)
  • Esme
  • Georgie
  • Hermia
  • Isobel (other variants: Isabel, Isabelle, Isabella)
  • Leah
  • Liesel (other variants: Liesl, Elisabeth)
  • Louise
  • Lucille
  • Tallulah
  • Theodosia (Daisy for short)
  • Penelope
  • Sophie
apr 25 2010 ∞
sep 8 2016 +
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  • From Aesop’s Fables, jest .
  • From Anne of Green Gables, melancholy .
  • From Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, fiasco .
  • From the History of Love, disappearing .
  • From the Illiad, betwixt .
  • From the Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, perpetual .
  • From Little Women, topsy-turvy .
  • From Pride and Prejudice, haste .
  • From Robinson Crusoe, obstinacy .
  • From the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, aptness .
  • From Jane Eyre, brooding .
jul 2 2010 ∞
feb 3 2011 +
  • Christchurch
  • Cornwall
  • Florence
  • New Orleans
  • Paris
dec 23 2011 ∞
dec 23 2011 +
  • befriend those with the callused hands
  • breathe on papers
  • breathe in the scent of papers lest you forget what the first time was like
  • bring your books to bed
  • consult our old friends the dictionaries
  • every printed item is a keepsake
  • have a cup of hot tea, perhaps more
  • hide in bookshops & libraries
  • immortalise memories out of the fleeting on papers
  • gaze at the night skies
  • greet all critters
  • inhale words when you feel most absent & silent
  • keep your hands warm
  • think up names
feb 1 2011 ∞
feb 12 2011 +
  • This is a Photograph of Me , Margaret Atwood
  • Variation on the Word Sleep , Margaret Atwood
  • You Begin , Margaret Atwood
  • Night Mail , W. H. Auden
  • Auguries of Innocence , William Blake
  • an explanation for wednesday , Kristy Bowen
  • Boat, a , Richard Brautigan
  • I Live in the Twentieth Century , Richard Brautigan
  • Oh Yes , Charles Bukowski
  • Beneath My Hands , Leonard Cohen
  • Osso Bucco , Billy Collins
  • Love Poem, a , Jamison T. Crabtree
  • Inside My Head , Robert Creeley
  • After a Hundred Years , Emily Dickinson
  • Happenstance , Rita Dove
  • Elegy , Carolyn Forche
  • She Didn't Mean to Do It , Daisy Fried
  • Cancellation , Erich Fried
  • Perhaps , Erich Fried
  • Mending Wall , Robert Frost
  • WildTendrils , Caroline Grace
feb 3 2011 ∞
may 24 2011 +
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  • Aragorn
  • Beast
  • Caspian X
  • Faramir
  • Gilbert Blythe
  • Hardy Cates
  • Jack Travis
  • Klaus Baudelaire
  • Little Prince
  • Mr Bingley
  • Mr Knightley
  • Peter Pevensie
  • Reepicheep
  • Remus Lupin
  • Rhage
  • Ron Weasley
jan 28 2011 ∞
feb 12 2011 +
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  • Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
  • Anne of Green Gables series, L. M. Montgomery
  • Bell Jar, the, Sylvia Plath
  • Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
  • Centuries of Stories, Wendy Cooling (ed.)
  • Chronicles of Narnia, the, series, C. S. Lewis
  • Coraline, Neil Gaiman
  • Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody, the, Will Cuppy
  • Faraway Tree, the, Enid Blyton
  • Fragile Things, Neil Gaiman
  • Graveyard Book, the, Neil Gaiman
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J. K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J. K. Rowling
  • History of Love, the, Nicole Krauss
  • Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
sep 6 2010 ∞
feb 6 2011 +