Things I like

Reading on the bus

Coffee with milk and some apple pie

Cloudy skies, rain, the smell of the earth after the rain

White bedroom with white bookcase, white desk and white chair

Sunday papers, not greek ones though

High heels

Rabbits

Computers

Reading and writing in bed

Cats, all of them but especially fat and fluffy ones. Scottish folds, especially!

Garlands with lights

The Great Gatsby (the book, although the film is nice too)

That place in Norway, Bergen

Travelling, if I can travel once a month I am happy

The cold, winter, snow, red cheeks, gloves, the wind, grey seas, frozen lakes

Christmas, everything about it

40’s and 50’s fashion and soft curls

Petite Fleur, a favourite cafe in Athens

Jazz, swing, big bands

Warm watermelon. Not exactly warm, but not cold

White candles and black candles

Walking in the street and looking through the windows at other people’s lives and making up stories about them

The things my son says

Having breakfast in the morning while reading my favourite sites

Buying stationery

Buying presents

The Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Beastie Boys, Nick Cave, Muse, Puressence

Onion soup

My sister, my friend Blondie, , my close online friends, my friend Anna, the people I choose to live with online and offline

My godson who is a metrosexual even now that he is so little

My diary

Arranging books on shelves

Henry James, everything he has ever written

Pearls, little crystals, everything that shines a bit

Black clothes

My dwarves, I have a small collection

Aeroplanes

My ipod

My mum who is so generous and my dad who is so funny

Babies, the way they smell, sleep and laugh

Attikon, a nice cinema in Athens

Cafe Avissinia, again in Athens, in Monastiraki, among the antiques

Corfu and Nafplion in Greece

Greek mountains and their villages like Metsovo and Zagoria and the villages in Pilio

Reading to my son before he goes to sleep

Sleeping, when I can manage it

Flickr

Lanterns

Old churches

Children playing after school

Autumn, the yellow leaves, everything

Lunch with friends

Sunday lunch and Saturday dinner

Being alive, I’ve never taken it for granted

Mornings

Making up new recipes

Lighthouses

Village squares

Aubergine pate

Toasties

Walking aimlessly

Big umbrellas

Photoshop and playing with it

Mushrooms

Short stories

Painting

Buying books for my son

When people say "I made it for you"

Lattes

Road trips

Design

Teaching

Learning about the universe from my son

Dancing

Roisin Murphy

Retro, shiny robots

Jane Austen

Scotland, Edinburgh, the Royal Mile, Loch Lomond, St. Andrews

Smoked tea

Bookmarks

New shoes

Russian food and literature and the russian language, one of the most musical languages

Postcards, sending and receiving

Being alone, not all the time though

English literature

My "women writers" mug

People who don’t take themselves too seriously

"Little Gidding" from Four Quartets

Ricky Gervais because he makes me roll on the floor with laughter

Theodore Roethke, my favourite poet

Buying cookbooks

My blog

"Kingdom" a perfume by Alexander McQueen

Big, fat teapots

My deli

Jo Malone perfumes

"Good Taste" cafe in Richmond

Champagne

Pumpkins, pumpkin soup, pumpkin risotto

Internet radio

The internet

Taking pictures

Throwing/giving things away

Chopin, because I am a fool

Dollhouses

Toni and Guy shampoo, makes hair squeaky clean

White sheets

Orchids

Ghose stories, stories about witches, spooky things

Little red boats

Bridges, although I also fear them

Pebbles

Scandinavian Design

Millais

Kir royal

Illustrations, I can browse for hours

Figs with sweet wine

Falling asleep to other people’s voices

Silly movies with crisps and Coronas

 

When people have no idea how beautiful they are

White fences

Wet grass

Tim Burton

Libraries

Breakfast, I dream about it all day

Beck

Cesare Pavese

Crap poetry because it’s so funny

Frogs

Chestnuts

Cold water in a cold glass

Making marmalade

The colour green and most of its shades

The smell of paper

3D puzzles

Mojitos

Going to the open market on Wednesdays

Waking up to the sound of the rain

Tartan

tissue paper

Cleaning and scrubbing

 

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