Where Would You Like to go Today? - Part II

And oh, I'm fresh to twitter, apparently it's the done thing, be my first follower.

Friday Finds, Part Deux

Victoria Melody - genius, pure, unadulterated Northern genius

I'm Comic Sans, Asshole

The Land

Sweet in Silver - definitely on my all time Christmas list

'Plucked from Obscurity'

Stop Phubbing

A particularly fantastic timelapse

Open letter to David Cameron and the IOC

Death Star Canteen - an oldie but a goodie

I believe you

If, for women

(Obviously Inspired by and following the form of  the famous 'If' by Rudyard Kipling, which is of course sage advice for both genders.)

If, for Women 

If you can define your own ambitions,

And not limit that reach to an accepted aim;

If you can be flexible in thought and reason,

And in so doing inspire the same;

If you can thread your words with kindness,

And never partake in cruelty;

If you can respect the ideals of others,

But retain a hold on reality;

If you can be generous with time and feeling,

And careful in dispensing it too;

If you can value character above appearance,

And encourage people to think the same as you;

If you can take lessons from your successes,

As well as those hard learnt in your defeat;

If you can face each day with bravery,

And know that there’s courage in retreat;

If you can allow for the faults of men and women,

Remembering your own countless failings too,

And be assured that everyone thereafter, 

Is likely to have no more, nor less than you;

If you can be sincere in all your dealings,

Engendering the same sincerity in return,

And proffer advice without dictating,

Nurture, even if no child is yours by birth;

If you can reject the myths that surround both sexes,

Refuse this definition and any other you might read;

If you can instead imbue your own decisions,

With fresh wisdom and integrity;

If you can speak out where prejudice is given credence,

Refuse to let bigotry take seed and grow;

Yours is the world and everything that’s in it,

And-what is more - you’ll be a woman, you know.

- Alice Hargrave

Where would you like to go today?

Sunday Sketch Book - Blooming Heather

Oh, the summer time is coming,

And the trees are blooming,

And the wild mountain thyme

Grows around the blooming heather.

Will you go, lassie, will you go?

Chorus:

And we'll all go together

To pull wild mountain thyme

All around the blooming heather,

Will you go, lassie, go?

I will build my love a bower

By yon clear and crystal fountain,

And all around the bower,

I'll pile flowers from the mountain.

Will you go, lassie, will you go?

If my true love, she won't have me,

I will surely find another

To pull wild mountain thyme

All around the blooming heather.

Will you go, lassie, will you go?

Oh, the summertime is coming

And the trees are blooming

And the wild mountain thyme

Grows around the blooming heather.

Will you go, lassie, will you go? - McPeake

Blooming Heather, Kate Rusby, listen here

Music and Life - Alan Watts

Friday Finds

The Secret Life of Rock Pools - this is why I love the BBC.

The Most Wonderful Photography and Design - and that's my friend up front and centre, pride by vague association. 

Famous Passports

Good on Skin

Brilliant Short - not for those of a sensitive disposition.

Now on in Bristol

Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning

Dress Please

Writer's Houses - beautiful cards, rather fond of Wordsworth's sheep myself.