#203: Brighton (2014)
‘I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.’ – T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Category: The Other Livvy
#202: Pavement
‘Should I give up, Or should I just keep chasing pavements? Even if it leads nowhere’ – Adele, Chasing Pavements
#201: Politics
‘The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.’ – Winston S. Churchill
#200: Heron
‘If gold rusts, what then can iron do?’ – Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
#199: Athelhampton House
‘Houses are like people – some you like and some you don’t like – and once in a while there is one you love.’ – L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs
#198: Bouquet
‘I must have flowers, always, and always.’ – Claude Monet
#197: The Way Through the Woods
‘There was once a road through the woods Before they planted the trees. It is underneath the coppice and heath, And the thin anemones.’ – Rudyard Kipling
#196: Oranges
‘Miss Jenkyns did not like to cut the fruit, for, as she observed, the juice all ran out nobody knew where, sucking [only I think she used some more recondite word] was in fact the only way of enjoying oranges.’ – Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford (Actually, I think this might be a tangerine but never mind…!)
#195: Confetti
‘Rejoice with glitters of ashes tonight Sparkling for moon’s spiced silver bite’ – Munia Khan Old photo from when I saw The Killers at Wembley in 2013
#194: Lunch (ish) break
‘Maj. Eaton: We have top men working on it right now. Indiana: Who? Maj. Eaton: Top… men.’ – Raiders of the Lost Ark Making the most of a rare break on my night shift…