Sunday, 4 March 2012

Sunday Smiles ♥

Sunday can be a grim cocktail of a hangover from Saturday evening and the impending gloom of Monday morning, however it doesn't have to be this way! While I am unable to offer a better hangover cure than Berocca and a bacon sandwich, I do hope to bring a small smile to your Sunday, making the thought of Monday morning seem a little more bearable.


The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
Alan Bennett, The History Boys


I thought this wouldn't hurt a lot, I guess not
MGMT


She knows me like I know myself...It's harder to leave with my heart on my sleeve than to stay and just pretend
Ed Sheeran


I would hate for them to think that you have to sound like someone else to get somewhere.
Amy Winehouse


And our hearts beat on like a drum
death will inevitably come
we are all helpless to the song
marching us all to our graves
marching us all to the grave
The Pierces


Oh we should be swimming 
Going on into the night as if we were different 
Zulu Winter


Great things are done when men and mountains meet
William Blake



I hope you have had a good week, thank you for reading my blog!


This week has been interesting! There is this guy called Alex that I really like but I think he just sees me as a friend. 
Then there's this other guy Jack who always replies to my messages and I think he likes me but he lives in another city and I'm not sure how much I like him back. It's a long and complicated story and I'm not sure what to do about it but in the midst of this muddle I have been loving this gorgeous gorgeous song by First Aid kit called Emmylou, I hope you enjoy it too... 

Sunday, 26 February 2012

Sunday Smiles ♥

Sunday can be a grim cocktail of a hangover from Saturday evening and the impending gloom of Monday morning, however it doesn't have to be this way! While I am unable to offer a better hangover cure than Berocca and a bacon sandwich, I do hope to bring a small smile to your Sunday, making the thought of Monday morning seem a little more bearable.


The bed feels warmer sleeping here alone
Kelly Clarkson


I've got one hand on the steering wheel, one waving out the window
If I'm a spinster for the rest of my life
My arms will keep me warm on cold and lonely nights
Kimya Dawson


There are many things that I would like to say to you, but I don’t know how… Because maybe, you’re gonna be the one that saves me
Oasis


Doomed from the start we met with a goodbye kiss
Kasabian



The world is rough so if a man's gonna make it he's got to be tough
Johnny Cash



Get busy living or get busy dying
Stephen King




The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea
Vladimir Nabokov





 And we live in a beautiful world, Yeah we do... We live in a beautiful world.
Coldplay





Thank you for reading my blog, I hope you have had a great week! 


I think M.I.A. is wonderful, she reminds me what music should be about. It should be about making a difference, pushing for change, it should be about things that matter. This isn't always the case with music that makes it into the charts- I'm looking at you Cheeky Girls!


Her latest track 'bad girls' is supporting women's rights campaigners in Saudi Arabia fighting women's right to drive. In the UK we take this for granted but in Saudi Arabia women and men are fighting for this and I fully support M.I.A. for bringing this issue into the charts


Plus it is a flipping awesome video!



xox

Sunday, 19 February 2012

Sunday Smiles ♥

Sunday can be a grim cocktail of a hangover from Saturday evening and the impending gloom of Monday morning, however it doesn't have to be this way! While I am unable to offer a better hangover cure than Berocca and a bacon sandwich, I do hope to bring a small smile to your Sunday, making the thought of Monday morning seem a little more bearable.


What if in this life, full of care,
We had no time to stand and stare
Leisure by W.H Davies


My heart it like a singing bird 
Whose nest is in a watered shoot
My heart is like an apple tree 
Whose boughs are bent' with thickset fruit
Christina Rossetti


I'll be looking at the moon but i'll be seeing you
Billie Holiday


 O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space—were it not that I have bad dreams
Hamlet by Shakespeare


All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing
Edmund Burke


May the odds be ever in your favour
Suzanne Collins


Most people have to talk so they won't hear
May Sarton


Thank you for reading my blog, I hope you've had a good week! I came across this article from the Washington Post called pearls before breakfast, it's fascinating it asks whether in our modern world of constant rush we have time for beauty. 

If one of the world's best musicians played on one of the world's finest violins, worth millions of pounds, in the metro people would surely stop? 

Having time for beauty:


xox