Addiktion #48 - Fallin'.

Oh James Blake, you're the perfect thing to wake up to before 6am on a Saturday morning.

Brummin' it.

I took this last term for a photography project with my academic course darlings. We weren't entirely sure it documented what it was supposed to, but we liked it so in it went.

Addiktion #47 - No Chance.

Am partly enjoying this over-long pre-pubescent angsty stuff - far beyond his 16 years, standard. 

Bless his little cheek bones though.

Addiktion #46 - Don't You Cry.

Isn't she fucking lovely?

Addiktion #45 - Broken Bones and Cartilage.

One of my ultimates. No matter what.

Fragment #6

She hustles back to her place on the counter. The stools are full. Girls, officeboys, grayfaced bookkeepers. ‘Chicken sandwich and a cup o caufee.’ ‘Cream cheese and olive oil sandwich and a glass of butter milk.’

‘Chocolate sundae.’ 

‘Egg sandwich, coffee and doughnuts.’ ‘Cup of boullion.’ ‘Chicken broth.’ ‘Chocolate icecream soda.’ People eat hurriedly without looking at each other, with their eyes on their plates, in their cups. Behind people sitting on stools those waiting nudge nearer. Some eat standing up.

(Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer, p.283-4)

Guilty Pleasure #3 - Give Me Bieber.

So the fever mounts...

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Addiktion #44 - Your home is where your heart is.

Too beautiful. 

Addiktion #43 - This Is War(paint).

Warpaint's album, The Fool, has provided the perfect soundtrack to the endless wild worries surrounding pending essay deadlines, bills, changes of work shifts and contracts, taxes, when to head back to uni, etc. etc.

The album's opening track, Set Your Arms Down, is my current favourite. Enjoy.

Addiktion #42 - Rattling Cage.

TheTweeDarling sent me this to soothe me through the pains of what I now view as ThePlague. I exist in a blur of aches, pains and mothers meetings down The Doctors with Mama by my side, both of us coughing and wheezing and dying away. No fun.
Forest Sword's offering, below, has done something to calm me amid the desperate attempts to get TheseFuckingEssays done. Enjoy.

Addiktion #41 - It's a New Year and I'm glad to be here.

So it's a little early, and a little predictable, but I've spent all week in bed and am forbidden from joining The Sister, The Bezzie, The Boy and all my other darlings in revelry tonight at The Social because it turns out that The Sniffles are full blown flu and I've been in a state of delirium all week. No fun at all.

I'm going to be spending my evening in with The Parents, arguing over the meanings of Inception (ULTIMATE FUCKING MOVIE, JUST INCREDIBLY LOUD) and whether we have time to watch Jools or not.

It's going to be amazing.

However, this song, and this particular performance will never cease to beat the traditional Auld Lang Syne in foretelling what the future's for. If you know it, please turn it up as loud as possible and go wild, and if you don't, listen close and listen hard. Every word is true.

Happy Fucking New Year, have an amazing one y'all.

Home Town Delightz #5 - Swish Swash.

Sometimes there is nothing nicer than chillin' with Pa in the early morning after a sleepless night thanks to the pleasure that is The Sniffles etc etc.

Having woken before everyone else, attempted to read one of my many course books (I'm still working my way through Glassco's Memoirs and loving every word), listened to a mixture of beautiful addiktions from my NightNightLife playlist, eaten a few perfect post-Christmas tangerines and drunk a fair amount of peppermint tea to try to ward off the inevitable headache, I ended up helping Pa do the washing up from the past couple of days (our dishwasher decided to pack in mid-wash on Christmas Eve Evening. And yes, I know. Ugh).

We have the bigger version of
this. It's too lovely.

Now that that's all done and dusted (I'm not allowed to touch the plates in case, God Forbid, I drop one) and the Aga is layered with Le Creuset pans and the cat has settled, I'm back to bed with my various course books and a desperate need to get rid of this God-Damned Headache.

Have a beautiful day y'all.

Home Town Delightz #4 - The Sniffles.

Zzzzz...

When you're feeling like shit with The Temperature, The Shivers, The Shakes and That Sneaky Bugger of a Chesty Cough there is nothing nicer that clean crisp white sheets, feather pillows, hand-stitched quilts and tea sipped from bone china.





After 24 hours spent moping in my freezing bedroom with what feels like The World's Worst Bout of The Sniffles, I feel it is most necessary to pay great thanks to Mummy Dearest for looking after me so kindly, The White Company for being so luxurious and to TheGenericWidelyRecognisedCoffeeShop for begrudgingly allowing me an all too necessary day off.


Now to go find myself some nourishing soup, a snuggly sofa and the cat to cuddle up with and watch black and white movies.


Na'night. x

Addiktionz over 2010 - The Top 25.

Happy Yuletide Greetin's Y'all.



Mummy Dearest took this on one of her festive wanders the other day.



Here's a selection of my favourite addiktionz that have emerged over the past year. 

Please, enjoy. 

Crystal Castles - Celestica

Cee-Lo Green - FUCK YOU

Chapel Club - All The Eastern Girls

Janelle Monae ft. Big Boi - Tight Rope

Die Antwoord - Zef Side

Rihanna ft. Drake - What's My Name?

Foals - Spanish Sahara

Darwin Deez - Bad Day

Eminem ft. Rihanna - Love The Way You Lie

Caribou - Odessa

Katy Perry - California Girls

Lykke Li - Get Some

Kanye West ft. Pusha T - Runaway (Extended Video Version)

Aloe Blacc - I Need A Dollar

Lissie - Bad Romance (Lady Gaga Cover)

Rusko ft. Amber Coffman - Hold On

Willow Smith - Whip My Hair

Beyonce - Why Don't You Love Me?

Sleighbells - Infinity Guitars

Lady Gaga - Alejandro

Hot Chip - I Feel Better

Cee-Lo Green - No One's Gonna Love You

Lady Gaga ft. Beyonce - Telephone

Arcade Fire - The Wildnerness (Interactive Online Video)

Pag - The Lady Is Dead

Home Town Delightz #3 - Bless 'Em.

Granny and Grandpa (the ultimate old codgers).

Napping in the lounge between present opening, champagne, bellinis and a frosty trip to the search.

My ultimate highlight thus far has been reading the yesterday's Daily Mail Gossip Columns to Granny. Too Good.

Addiktion #40 - Sometimes time's so slow.

Addiktion #39 - No One Knows.

Home Town Delightz #2 - There you are, you pesky rascal!

I love this thing.

So this hat has been my favourite thing since I bought it on impulse in Forever21's big opening weekend the other month.
It went mysteriously went missing over the weekend of manic travel between Brum-Selly-Home-TheBoy'sHome-Home-London-Home-TheBoy'sHome-Notts-Home. Inevitable, really.


BUT. I JUST FOUND IT. Tangled amid knitwear galore, that was also travelling about manically with me. Pure joy. Though I think I'll still wear a different hat laterz...








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Apologies to The Boy and The Cat in particular for unfair accusations of theft. Lav Yaz ;)

Addiktion #38 - Baby.Darlin'.DollFace.Honey.