say what i love

it has lime, lemongrass, clary sage and bay, and it smells so totally heavenly.

i’m using it in my home and in my car and at work. it really peps me up and helps me feel more alert and alive.

Swinx, basking in the sun this morning

even though i don’t like yellow usually.

on the beach.

This was this evening at the Fish Hoek football grounds. it was a massive unbroken double rainbow (look really close for the second one) but i couldn’t get it all in to the frame.

This is my local chick (i have a UK chick too, but she’s in the UK of course)

without this awesome woman my life the past 5 years would have been a lot less fun, a lot more grey and nowhere near as naughty.

i love girl friends.

let’s see if i can find 43…

1. oranges
2. wild garlic
3. grass
4. coffee
5. jasmine
6. Eternity by CK
7. DKNY’s delicious (green apple one)
8. pink grapefruit
9. babies
10.the back of Raph’s neck
11.fresh sweat
12.ginger
13.cinnamon
14.vanilla
15.bush fire
16.rain
17.the ocean
18.cooking potatos
19.roast chicken
20.new books
21.sawdust
22.pine needles
23.lavendar
24.freesias
25.a match just struck
25.plastacine (spelling?)
26.cannabis
27.cat’s feet (i know i am weird)
28.lemongrass
29.freshly baked bread
30.meat on the braai (bbq)
31.cookies baking
31.fresh rosemary
32.lapsang souchong tea
33.clean hair
34.bacon sizzling
35.fresh cold air, pre-dawn
36.chlorine on hot skin
37.the smell you get near wetlands
38.freshly dug rich dark soil
39.heat in the veld
40.fynbos
41.papaya
42.baby powder
43.dove soap

the X-X bought me this book today by a much-loved author of mine, Nick Hornby.

This is not a novel, but…

The Polysyllabic Spree collects a year’s worth of Hornby’s riotous and informative “Stuff I’ve Been Reading” columns from the Believer, in which Hornby lists the books he’s read, along with what he bought and may one day read. He ably explores everything from the classic to the graphic novel, as well as poems, plays, and sports-related exposés. And if he occasionally implores a biographer for brevity, or abandons a literary work in favor of an Arsenal soccer match, then all is not lost. His warm and riotous writing, full of all the joy and surprise and despair that books bring him, reveals why we still read, even when there’s soccer on TV, a pram in the hall, and a good band playing at our local bar.
All proceeds from the book will be split between 826NYC, a writing center in Brooklyn offering free classes to students between the ages of 8 and 18, and Treehouse, a London-based charity for kids with autism.

i bought myself this bunch today to reward myelf for cleaning our home.

titanium ring with 3 diamonds and a brushed finish (the bottom one)