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Tuesday 29 January 2013

Devon like Venice? Ahem

 
Reasons why latest immigrants should not move to Britain, according to the Guardian:

▶ Come to the 2013 European Capital of Obesity. It's Contagious!
▶ The Streets Aren't Paved With Gold, Even Under All the Vomit.
▶ If You're Coming With an HMV Voucher, You're Too Late.
▶ Britain: We Just Made the Citizenship Test Really Hard.
▶ Devon: It's Like Venice, But Without Any Gondolas or Bridges.
▶ The Great British Countryside: Soon to Be Blighted By High Speed Rail.
▶ The United Kingdom: If You Think This Queue's Long, You Should See the One to Get Out.
▶ Recession-wise, We've Only Just Got Started.
▶ Scotland: Where the Benefits of a Mediterranean Diet Become Apparent Through Stark Contrast.
▶ Britain Gives You Cancer.
▶ If We Knew You Were Coming, We'd Have Built Some Housing, Maintained Our Infrastructure and Restarted Our Economy.
▶ The Quaint Pubs You See in Travel Supplements Are All Tesco Metros Now.
▶ It's Really Not Like Downton Abbey At All – But Come Dine With Me Is Terrifyingly Accurate.
▶ The English Riviera, Land of Cruel Irony.

Monday 28 January 2013


"He was an extraordinary poet, an extraordinary comic, a very funny actor .... He was a great great charmer."

Jane Birkin on Serge

Saturday 26 January 2013

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were once walls

Joseph Campbell

Sunday 20 January 2013

There are so many ways of being better but these ways contradict each other
Sheila Heti ( this woman is just so completely real and brilliant)

Wednesday 16 January 2013

Not horsing around

I can't believe that Tesco has been found to have horses in their burgers.

Wednesday 9 January 2013

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
-Viktor E. Frankl

Lose yourself then find yourself


The original title of Almodovar's upcoming film "I'm so excited" is Los Amantes Pasajeros or Travellers in love. I prefer the latter.

Berets are back

Wednesday 2 January 2013

La mitad de la belleza depende del paisaje y la otra mitad depende del hombre que la admira

Tuesday 1 January 2013

There was never a time when I did not exist. Nor will we cease to exist from now onwards

Bhagavad gita