Edible comfort.

This past weekend taught me many things, both good and bad.

Good: Fruit based cocktails are truly delicious and cream is a good color on me.

Bad: Sometimes people take you for granted no matter how hard you try.

Despite my best efforts to remain upbeat and positive, I woke this morning feeling tired and not a little drained.

As my usual fail safe cure is not currently an option (online shop-fests at topshop.com and asos.com) I turned to something more immediate, and instantaneously satisfying.

And so....

Lo and behold, everything seems a little bit brighter.

Poetic advice to live by.

One Art
by Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master. Then practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaster. I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or next-to-last, of three loved houses went. The art of losing isn't hard to master. I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent. I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster. --Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

Wishing on a star....

Dear Autumn,

So I can fully appreciate and indulge in the beauty of your season, may I please have these delectable items to add to my woefully scant and bare closet? I have been a very good girl for all the other seasons, as I am sure they will agree.

Your friend,

Birdy xox

Ps: you're my favorite.....sssshhhhhhh

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Had to share...

[ Dang straight it is ]

Ain't that nuttin' but the truth!! 

Thanks to http://www.englishmuse.com//

On feeling reflective...

                                                        [ Wish I was here ]

Sometimes life demands reflection, taking stock, with-holding decisions.
This week, despite umpteen things to do, projects to commence and follow through,
I need to sit back, step off the carousel and watch it all unfold....
Presumably next week I will come back to myself, and wake up screaming in the middle of the night from fright at all the things I've left undone.....but until then:

                                                       [ The Kitchen Diaries; N Slater; www.amazon.co.uk ]


Without being too dramatic, this book is revolutionizing how I feel about eating and cooking.

                                                             [ Kitten, wool; via Pinterest ]


Find peace and solace in soft wool and smooth knitting needles.

                                                                [ Apple cake ]


Using the last of the Autumn apple harvest to bake something light, moist and warm.

                                                        [Motivational message ]


And finally, trying to remember this and keep it at the front of my mind despite all evidence to the contrary!


Birdy xox

Photos via Pinterest

A beautiful building, oui?

 So simple, but yet so pretty. I want to live in a house like this and drink tea from china cups with fat pink roses on them, and eat tiny scones with clotted cream and jam. And sit quietly in the gentle sun, on my beautiful wrought iron balcony, as the evening fades to twilight.

Reasons to be cheerful #1:

Memories of a magical trip to Rome...

Where there is Chanel, there is happiness....

Delicious baked goods cooling downstairs....

Saving saving saving for this bad boy...

Grand plans to someday drink tea out of this...

Living in a country with views like this...

Why are you cheerful???