Wow, I haven't been on here in ages!
I'm here now:
http://hollysses.tumblr.com/
xx

ask me, i won't say 'no'. how could i?

http://www.formstack.com/forms/?742971-qe9pS4aH2q
will post the replies on here and tumblr.

leap of faith

taken in and around Porthleven, where i am on holiday at the moment, staying in a very quaint little cottage that used to be a fisherman's cottage.

it is all low ceilings and whitewashed walls, aga cookers and heated tile floors. the lovely owners left freshly baked scones, little pots of jam, some tea and some milk, and a little pot of clotted cream for us.

lovely surprise.

telescope pictures.

sunday, 7th march 2010

first clear, sunny day in three months. walked to williamson’s park. toddlers taking tentative jumps after their mothers down the memorial steps. couples laughing and holding hands and strolling along leaf-littered paths. small kids on bikes going round and round. warm in the sun, yet there is a memory of frost in the air, and the lake is frozen over. playing hide-and-seek with dad, playing tig with mum. friends sitting and smoking and talking.

i sit by myself and watch dog walkers laughing at each other and people in hammocks drinking coffee out of thermos flasks. i sit and pull at the dry grass and close my eyes. i am relaxed. i have never felt more content, more happy than this moment.

climb a tree, sit and watch the birds fluttering and flitting through the branches with such ease. as they, along with last year’s dead leaves cast shadows on my upturned face, i have never felt so happy and content than now, sitting in a huge tree, it’s branches embracing me like comforting arms.

first day of spring?

exited for the summer ahead, where i can walk and sit and talk and have picnics with people i haven’t seen for a while. i will make a picnic lunch every time- crusty baguettes, cool water in huge bottles, and plenty of fresh, home baked cake. i will never have felt so content in my life, in the sun, thinking of the possibilities of the two years of sixth form and then gap year? ahead, surrounded by the people i cherish and love the most. (esp. eden, bekah, sandy and sophia. that would be the best thing ever)

i will have tea parties and invite people wearing pretty dresses round to my house to chat and drink earl grey in the sun, of course with an abundance of homemade cake. and i will never have felt as happy or content as i do in that moment in my life.

i can’t wait for summer.

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this is where i am now. sorry i have neglected this blog no one xxx
i may decide to come back soon. i may not.

alfie

This is my cat alfie:
(it will be bernard's turn soon!)



(happy 50th birthday morrissey for yesterday ;] )

Svo Hljótt

i feel i have neglected Sigur Rós over the past month and i feel baad. :(
After listening to Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust in full last night, i realise just whhy i fell in love with them in the first place. such a stunning album :']
only 20-odd more plays and they will overtake the wombats on my last.fm :)
(which is a good thing)

"we had to write about our favourite book, and i wrote about the dictionary..."

"I use flowers because Oscar Wilde used flowers. I really admire the idea of constantly being attached to some form of plant."

unnecessarily flippant

he says "delicate" too much :D

and a crack on the head is what you get for asking

I am going to write about food.

I love food, which is probably a good thing, i mean if i hated it, i would be dead.
off hand i would say my favourite food in the whole wide world is these beautiful things:

Stufed vine leaves,
mmm...leaves...

veggie of course, quorn mince or lentils.
(and excuse the cliché, i'm enlgish after all, whadda you expect ;] )

with the mushy peas of course!
and pehaps a pickled egg
*waits for cries of disgust*
pudding:


right. i really need to get this off my chest.
i haven't written any of this down and i need to now.
__________________

I don't eat meat. i was brought up this way. i haven't eaten meat in my whole life
(apart from a tiny piece of bacon which i thought was gross)
I do eat fish. again, the way i was brought up.
i get loads of crap:
"why do you eat fish but not meat?" etc etc
well, my answer is
"BECAUSE I WANT TO"
i can eat what i want (as long as i'm not eating people... )
i don't question their diets!
i have considered becoming a "proper" veggie, i may do when i move out.
but i don't want to turn down food that my mum has cooked, it's rude.
until then i will be a "pescatarian" which is as stupid name!

i don't like vegetarians who refuse to carry a plate that has/has had meat on it,
or will not eat near/next to someone eating meat.
i think that this is pathetic, and we should except everyone's individual diets.
i also dislike people who say "what do vegetarians eat?" etc
for gods sake, have they never had a meal in their lives that has not had meat in it?
have they never heard of meat alternatives? pfft.
[edit:] or lentils?!?! haha

i have also considered becoming vegan, i would be able to cope, but i don't think i will just yet.
when i eat fish/cheese/milk/eggs/anything else produced from animals it is always free range, and organic.
i feel that it would be VERY hypocritical and plain fucking stupid to not eat meat because of..say..battery farms, when eggs can be, and are produced in that (fucking disgusting) way too.

No matter what i do though, there is always going to be someone there telling me i'm wrong:
- eating fish when i don't eat meat
or
- eating dairy products- "turn vegan!"
or
- wearing leather/ sitting on leather

etc etc

and i'm just going to have to deal with that.
i call myself vegetarian, because i am more comfortable saying that than saying "i don't eat meat"
i don't know why, but i can do that if i want to!!

although, i don't know what i'm going to do when i go to iceland they eat:
- shark (half rotted)
- sheep head
- puffin
- sheeps testicles
- whale (GR!)

haha joking- if Jónsi can manage being vegan and living in iceland, i'm sure i can manage! (:
[i can always EAT FISH]

haha:

shame i'm not allowed to stay up and watch the new series tonight D:< p.s.

a crack on the head is what you get for not asking

oh great. oh brilliant. oh wonderful. oh lovely
there is something even worse than twitter.
another wonderful site where lovely narcissistic people can post short (and pointless) updates on their very interesting lives is just what we need.

but this is even better than that.
on this site, you can post audio clips of your wonderful adventures. (ie what time you got up this morning, that you had scrambled egg for breakfast- all very exiting.)

so this site is not even just for narcissistic people, it is also for narcissistic people who love the sound of their own voices!
wonderful!
to post some lovely narcissistic and intresting updates, go here:
http://audioboo.fm/

i ...aquired...this today:

1. "Sweet and Tender Hooligan"
2. "I Keep Mine Hidden"
3. "Work Is a Four-Letter Word"
4. "What's the World?" (live)

I love the way at the start of What's The World? where morrissey forgets who its by haha
"this was written by...err ..erm.." then the song starts (:

p.s
:)

London Calling

Work experience was grreat, more like a holiday though tbh........
i mean it was hard sometimes, but my working hours were great! 10-4 woo

i went to oxford street, it was horrible. big topshop was too big and there were too many people. i didn't see anthing i liked that wasn't stupidly priced.
did get a peacock top in H&M though, i have been looking for one for YEARS! (i'm not kidding either, i really have)

Camden wasn't all it was cracked up to be..
too tourist-y. couldn't take much of it, it was pretty full on and busy
was okay though.
these were the best things about camden
(don't know why i look so evil in this picture..)

When i asked the guy at the stall if he had any smiths tees, he said
"yes they are in this box, reserved for our special smiths fans with good taste " he was fit too. yay

and in another vintage shop, they were playing The Boy With The Thorn in His Side and the guy who worked there was singing along really loudly ...he looked like he was enjoying himself ;)

i really wanted to write "franz" at the top in permanent marker haha

Wewent to a lovely little cemetry on saturday, all over grown and wild:


and my favourite


I bought this necklace from a "We Make" fair:

it's pretty kwl.

the train back yesterday was soooo slow. it was such a retard..
i'm off to make mesel' some pasta for lunch.
byeee




p.s

lungs

i had a lovely time "torturing" my gaga-loving sister the other day, by playing the smiths on my ipod speakers really loud when she was trying to read.
it was FUN. heh heh heh
i also saw porpoises in wales.

i had to get up at 5 this morning for a "dawn chorus" thing
5!!!!!!!!!!1111!!!
argh.


i am absolutely BRICKING IT about work experience next week!
got to get up at 8.00 tomorrow morning to get the train down to london...

rate i is jst goeing 2 pak me bagz
lololololololololololololololol......
(see edens blog to know what the fuck i am on about or this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbEMTLGmgwk link)

.....and watch a film (hopefully the history boys or mean girls)

Mull, scotland

after a 6-or-so hour drive, with a stop at a posh oyster bar for a delicious fish lunch, we arrived in oban, where we had a coffee and wondered around:


Then we caught the ferry to Craignure on Mull. the ferry took about 50 mins and the drive to our cottage on calagary bay took about 1 1/2 hrs.
The coattage (Bulldog cottage) was right next to the beach, this is the view from the kitchen window:

on Saturday, we went to Tobermory/Balamory" and it was raining...
but we stopped in a cafe (Tobermory Chocolate) and i had a lovely hot chocolate.


Calgary bay again:


One day, we went for a walk (a very very long one! almost 10km) and we saw lots of waterfalls, and an abandoned village:


Another day, we went to an island called Ulva which is quite a large island off mull, with 20ish inhabitants. we saw at least 6 wild deer and pink footed geese.
we also had an amazing lunch of the best potted crab ever, lentil soup and yum home made bread. with hot chocolate and cake.
the ferry that took us over, as you can tell, was the peak of modern technology:

It was beautiful, if a little wet.

The next day, we went on a boat trip to Staffa and the Treshnish islands.
we saw puffins! (shit picture i know)


And Staffa was an amazing place, aparantly the "giants causeway" type rocks are much more impressive than the irish ones

and Staffa itself was a hit with the victorians because of the amazing rock formations.
around the Treshnish Islands, we saw seals!

and the sea looked almost tropical, because of the colour



on the holiday we also saw
natural arches

highland cows

lovely little harbours

a hermit crab

and (haha) sparrows.



and i found at least 25 of these:

which is a european cowrie shell and a piece of coral.

On the drive back, we stopped at a litlle cafe in a samll village, but they didn't take card, and the cash machine had run out of cash...
so we went to a scotish themed place, the decor was awful and the toilets had no water to flush or wash hands! i had vegetable "soup" which was basically veg-flavoured water with mushy carrots floating in it . YUK! haha.
then i was on the radio and then we arrived home.