jim jarmusch
- ✔ permanent vacation
- ✔ stranger than paradise
- ✔ down by law
- ✔ mystery train
- ✔ night on earth
- ✔ dead man
- ✔ ghost dog
- ✔ coffee and cigarettes
- ✔ broken flowers
- ✔ the limits of control
- ✔ only lovers left alive
- ✔ paterson
- ✔ the dead don't die
sophia coppola
- ✔ the virgin suicides
- ✔ lost in translation
- ✔ marie antoinette
- ✔ somewhere
- ✔ the bling ring
apr 25 2020 ∞ may 29 2020 +
- summer solstice
- weekend road trips
- pick strawberries
- late nights in the park
- winding projects down
- white summer dresses
- light skies late into the night
- fairy lights in the garden
- dreaming of adventures
- early sunrises
- walking by lakes
- fresh earth scents
- bees and butterflies
- low hum of busy gardens
- peppermint tea
- my husband's birthday
- lying in fields reading
- my mother’s birthday
- making elderflower cordial
- wildflowers everywhere
aug 30 2019 ∞ jun 14 2022 +
- fresh cool mornings
- homework
- new clothes
- clean white shirt
- warm spicy perfume
- first leaf fall
- harvest corn
- green beans
- apples and blackberries
- rose hip tea
- theatre trips
- libraries
- stationery
- hard work
- wedding anniversary themes
- return of tights
- fading greens
- seasonal books
- soft afternoons outside
- my son’s birthday
sep 1 2015 ∞ jul 30 2022 +
- tales of the south pacific by james a. michener
- guard of honor by james gould cozzens
- the way west by a.b. guthrie
- the town by conrad richter
- the caine mutiny by herman wouk
- ✔ the old man and the sea by ernest hemingway
- a fable by william faulkner
- andersonville by mackinlay kantor
- a death in the family by james agee
- the travels of jaimie mcpheeters by robert lewis taylor
- advise and consent by allen drury
- ✔ to kill a mockingbird by harper lee
- the edge of sadness by edwin o'connor
- the reivers by william faulkner
- the keepers of the house by shirley ann grau
- collected stories by katherine anne porter
aug 9 2015 ∞ jan 3 2021 +
- ✔ Vertigo (1958)
- ✔ Citizen Kane (1941)
- Tokyo Story (1953)
- The Rules of the Game (1939)
- Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
- ✔ 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- The Searchers (1956)
- Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
- The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
- ✔ 8½ (1963)
- ✔ Battleship Potemkin (1925)
- L'Atalante (1934)
- ✔ Breathless (1960)
- Apocalypse Now (1979)
- Late Spring (1949)
- Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
- Seven Samurai (1954)
- Persona (1966)
- Mirror (1975)
- Singin' in the Rain (1952)
- L'Avventura (1960)
may 25 2015 ∞ sep 17 2021 +
- some things just stick in your mind - vashti bunyan
- vespertine - bjork
- wild winter - smoke fairies
- 50 words for snow - kate bush
- i annan heim - rökkurró
- for emma, forever ago - bon iver
- everything all the time - band of horses
- ( ) - sigur ros
- little earthquakes - tori amos
- the division bell - pink floyd
- the head and the heart - the head and the heart
- moon - snowbird
dec 16 2014 ∞ jan 13 2021 +
- ✔ A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- ✔ A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- A Grave for a Dolphin by Alberto Denti di Pirajno
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1890-1924 by Orlando Figes
- Age of American Unreason, The by Susan Jacoby
- All the Emperor's Horses by David Kidd
- American Way of Death, The by Jessica Mitford
- Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock by Nik Cohn
- Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s by Otto Friedrich
- Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective by Arthur C Danto
dec 20 2013 ∞ mar 26 2016 +
- ✔ 1984 by George Orwell
- ✔ Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The by Mark Twain
- ✔ Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- ✔ Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The by Michael Chabon
- ✔ American Tragedy, An by Theodore Dreiser
- ✔ Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
- ✔ Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- ✔ Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
- ✔ Art of Fiction, The by Henry James
- ✔ Art of War, The by Sun Tzu
- ✔ As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
- ✔ Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan
- ✔ Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
- ✔ Awakening, The by Kate Chopin
- ✔ Babe by Dick King-Smith
- ✔ Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
- ✔ Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress:...
mar 10 2011 ∞ jan 3 2021 +
- daffodils and tulips
- first trips away of the year
- light mornings
- my father's birthday
- windy cold sunshine
- spring equinox
- sunday woodland walks
- pansies
- green shoots
- green and yellow
- flying kites
- rhubarb muffins
- stretching and awakening
- looking at larger skies
- start working on big plans
- clear out and clean away
- home made cleaning potions
- mind waking
- time to start....
mar 1 2011 ∞ feb 22 2022 +
- Going to the Theatre in town with my Grandmother
- The circus on Halloween
- Looking into a wooded garden through the window when its raining
- Narnia stories in books and on screens
- My Grandmother's dressing table
- Dark green
- Going to the sweet shop with my Dad on a sunny Sunday morning
- Crossing fields and listening to birds
- Horse riding on Sunday afternoons
- Feeding ducks on grey days and tea in cafes
- Snowy walks in the woods
- Searching for snowdrops
- Church services on Christmas Eve
jan 11 2011 ∞ jan 17 2015 +
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- halloween
- spells and magic
- pumpkin pie
- red and yellow and orange leaves
- new boots
- big coat comes out
- old horror films
- night sky
- canal walks
- music gigs
- half term
- village halls
- picking apples and mushrooms
- camping with big jumpers
- fresh coffee
- circus trips
- cities
dec 31 2020 ∞ jul 30 2022 +
- sticky pink skies
- hot nights
- neon pink
- sunny holidays
- beach fires
- summer nighties
- summer rain
- cocktails and food in the garden
- horse riding
- outdoor swimming
- decorate the house with flowers
- watermelon
- wild nettle tea
- picking cherries
- peach juice dripping down your arm
- watching tennis matches
- outdoor cinema
- summer dresses and sandals
- summer adventures
aug 30 2019 ∞ jun 14 2022 +
- ✔ a spell of winter by helen dunmore
- fugitive pieces by anne michaels
- larry's party by carol shields
- a crime in the neighbourhood by suzanne berne
- when i lived in modern times by linda grant
- the idea of perfection by kate grenville
- ✔ bel canto by ann patchett
- ✔ property by valerie martin
- ✔ small island by andrea levy
- we need to talk about kevin by lionel shriver
- on beauty by zadie smith
- ✔ half of a yellow sun by chimamanda ngozi adichie
- the road home by rose tremain
- home by marilynne robinson
- the lacuna by barbara kingsolver
- the tiger's wife by tea obreht
- ✔ the song of achilles by madeline miller
aug 9 2015 ∞ jan 3 2021 +
found on weheartit
- wear a big sweater
- drink tea
- clean your room
- go on a walk
- make paper cranes
- find recipes (to use when you're happy)
- watch anime
- hang fairy lights around your house
- bake an apple pie
- paint your sadnesses
- go to a cafe
- sleep on a pile of blankets
- ask for a hug
- cry
- visit the library
- pick flowers
sep 6 2012 ∞ jan 17 2015 +
blakeney point
- arctic tern
- brent goose
- common tern
- dunlin
- greylag
- little tern
- mallard
- oystercatcher
- pink-footed goose
- pintail
- ringed plover
- sandwich tern
- teal
- turnstone
- wigeon
apr 15 2011 ∞ jan 17 2015 +
- ✔ 16 Candles
- ✔ 2001: A Space Odyssey
- 3 Days of the Condor, The
- ✔ 8 mile
- 9 1/2 weeks
- ✔ Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
- ✔ AI
- ✔ Alice in Wonderland
- ✔ Alive
- ✔ All About Eve
- ✔ All the President’s Men
- ✔ Almost Famous
- American Gigolo
- American in Paris
- ✔ American Splendor
- ✔ Amistad
- Amityville Horror, The
- An Affair to Remember
- ✔ Animal House
- ✔ Annie Hall
- Apocaplypse Now
mar 11 2011 ∞ sep 18 2021 +
- January stillness and white
- Valentine's Day
- Shrove Tuesday - pancake months of February and March
- Spring Equinox
- Easter
- May Day
- Summer Solstice
- First Harvest
- Second Harvest
- Halloween
- Bonfire Night
- Stir-Up Sunday
- Winter Solstice
- Christmas
- New Year's Eve
feb 14 2011 ∞ jan 17 2015 +
- candlemas
- valentines
- buds
- crocuses
- cardigans
- pancakes
- grey afternoons baking pink cakes
- handmade sweets
- little presents
- watching strange romantic films
- knitting for friends
- walking by still and cold lakes
- walking home in the almost light
- red morning skies
- poems about the woods
- half term
- cinema trips
- dusty attics
- antique lockets
jan 31 2011 ∞ feb 1 2021 +
- Almost Famous
- Annie Hall
- Batteries Not Included
- Belleville Rendez-Vous
- Benny & Joon
- Blue Velvet
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s
- Dirty Dancing
- Grease 2
- Howl's Moving Castle
- It's A Wonderful Life
- Kiki's Delivery Service
- Mary Poppins
- Moonstruck
- Night On Earth
- North by Northwest
- Practical Magic
- Pulp Fiction
- Shirley Valentine
- The Fisher King
- The Shining
jan 11 2011 ∞ jun 23 2022 +
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- bonfire night
- hedgehog piles
- cinder toffee
- treacle cake
- poppies for remembrance
- the smell of my father’s coat
- my brother’s birthday
- dark foggy mornings
- apple crumble
- long winter walks
- big jumpers
- feed the birds
- big books
- roast squash with sage
- roast dinners
- pheasants flying over empty fields
- theatre trips
- tea and fruit cake by the fire
dec 31 2020 ∞ dec 31 2020 +
- decorate the house with evergreens and lights
- yule fires
- winter solstice
- christmas carols
- mince pies
- twinkling markets
- mulled wine
- furry mittens
- big coats
- foraging for holly and ivy
- magic in the house
- rest and family
- christmas films
- christmas cards on the doormat
- clementines and dates
- velvet and satin
- poinsettia
- late milky sunrises
- christmas day
- wind in the willows
dec 22 2019 ∞ dec 31 2020 +
- a farewell to arms, ernest hemingway
- victory, joseph conrad
- guerrillas, v.s. naipaul
- ✔ down and out in paris and london, george orwell
- wonderland, joyce carol oates
- ✔ wuthering heights, emily bronte
- the good soldier, ford madox ford
- ✔ one hundred years of solitude, gabriel garcia marquez
- crime and punishment, fyodor dostoyevsky
- appointment in samarra, john o'hara
- the executioner's song, norman mailer
- the novels of henry james, henry james
- speedboat, renata adler
- go tell it on the mountain, james baldwin
- notes of a native son, james baldwin
- the berlin stories, christopher isherwood
- collected poems, robert lowell
nov 8 2017 ∞ nov 8 2017 +
- something to answer for by p.h. newby
- the elected member by bernice rubens
- in a free state by v.s. naipaul
- g by john berger
- the siege of krishnapur by j.g. farrell
- the conservationist by nadine gordimer
- heat and dust by ruth prawer jhabvala
- saville by david storey
- staying on by paul scott
- the sea, the sea by iris murdoch
- offshore by penelope fitzgerald
- rites of passage by william golding
- midnight's children by salman rushdie
- schindler's ark by thomas keneally
- life and times of michael k by j.m. coetzee
- ✔ hotel du lac by anita brookner
- the bone people by keri hulme
- ✔ the old devils by kinsley amis
- ✔ moon tiger by penelope lively
- oscar and lucinda by peter carey
aug 9 2015 ∞ jan 3 2021 +
- music festivals
- raspberries
- reading large books
- late summer dusty ground
- shady evenings
- honeysuckle at the end of the garden
- first harvest
- starry night skies
- birthday cake
- balloons
- fairgrounds
- candy floss
- british sea side at the end of the day
- wheat fields
- dresses and cardigans
- mint ice cream
- thunder storms
- fairy lights
- chai tea
aug 8 2015 ∞ jul 30 2022 +
- blush
- charcoal
- coral
- dark violet
- dove grey
- forest green
- forget-me-not blue
- jade green
- lemon yellow
- mustard yellow
- navy blue
- olive green
- pale mint green
- peach
- peacock blue
- salmon pink
- scarlet red
- stormy blue
jul 28 2015 ∞ jul 29 2015 +
- almond milk
- bananas
- black coffee
- cherries
- coconut yoghurt
- conference pears
- cranberry juice
- dark chocolate
- gin
- ginger
- mango
- oily fish
- peanut butter
- pineapple
- pink grapefruit
- pink lady apples
- porridge
- red grapes
- red wine
- rum
- set honey
sep 23 2014 ∞ apr 7 2017 +
- visit manchester
- feel the autumn sea breeze
- walk in the woods
- go to the theatre
- visit london
- study
- cook with autumn vegetables
- make apple crumble
- drink tea at my mother's house
- first term of the year
- observe the autumn sunlight
- smile and breathe
- act on plans
- work hard
- outdoor fires
- reading in the garden with a blanket
- wear ginger perfume and clean white shirts
- find a new bag
- knit
- read under a tree
sep 7 2012 ∞ jan 17 2015 +
- daisies on the lawn
- red floral dresses
- green grass cuttings
- birds, flying and migrating and arriving
- multi-coloured ribbons
- bank holidays
- fresh and green leaves to stare at and to eat
- start of summer
- summer plans
- planning my husband's birthday
- sunny skies and long evenings
- evening forest walks
- discovering wild woods
- writing stories in the sunlight
- painting the house
- reading and reading and reading
- maroon and deep red
- blueberries
may 5 2011 ∞ jan 30 2021 +
- yellow
- sunny rain
- flowers of all colours reaching towards the sun
- easter eggs
- asparagus spears
- floral dresses
- family lunches
- duck ponds
- chocolate nest cakes
- hot cross buns
- sunday morning walks
- busy chattering allotments behind our house
- coloured umbrellas
- new wellies
- sunny puddles
- my grandmother's birthday
- watching trains through village stations - dreams speeding along with them
- progress
apr 4 2011 ∞ feb 1 2021 +
(from katie)
- Flower: forget-me-nots, snowdrops, tea roses, peonies
- Colour: olive green
- Noise: rain, crackling fires, birds in the woods, swifts circling, an empty beach with a rough sea.
- Scents: honeysuckle, summer mornings, winter mornings, fresh washing, gingerbread, the seaside, jasmine, chai tea, coffee, dragon's blood
- Feeling: hugs from my husband, my cat's fur on my face, fresh bed sheets, a warm bath, swimming in a natural lake, gentle summer breeze on my face, woolen jumpers in winter
- Instrument: violin, piano
- Season: autumn/winter
- Weather: cold
- Tea: green, chai, peppermint, chamomile
- Eye Colour: dark green
mar 8 2011 ∞ jun 20 2016 +
- frosty
- quiet
- white
- still
- snow
- tundra
- new clothes
- marmalade season
- read
- tea
- log fires
- woolen socks
- big jumpers
- root vegetable stews
- feed the birds
- still garden with hiding places
- white iced buns
- snowdrops
- think
- rest
- ... and then slowly wake up
jan 12 2011 ∞ jan 30 2021 +
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