Colourful & Wintery Shopping

Lunch-time multi-cheese sustenance from Paul, possibly my new favourite Saturday lunchy type place. Good cuppa too.

A Long Weekend

IMG_4719, originally uploaded by hello.vickibrown.

...on the banks of the Dordogne. I'll write more later. Just love this picture!

See the rest on Flickr. See where we stayed here.

Elbow

Elbow's show last night was fantastic. The new songs sounded great live, particularly enormous, and a sprinkling of older ones went down really well. Guy Garvey's stage presence adds to a great experience too, dedicating songs like Newborn; "two of our band have recently become dads again, so to celebrate, here's a lovely song about a romantic death". It was a treat to see Richard Hawley come on to do The Fixer; a great song, really dark, and he sounded brilliant. I think Guy Garvey felt a bit inadequate with his maraca next to Richard's outfit and big red guitar though... You can see their shapeless blobs right here! The NME has it's usual incisive report; "Hawley walked on stage and played guitar and sang with the band." It's like you're actually there experiencing it with them isn't it.

Happy-Cow Milk

I thought this new Calon Wen milk was a bit of a no-brainer. Happy cows, intelligent packaging, and a very cute cow drawing on the front. And if you weren't convinced then the ECO! ORGANIC! ETHICAL! RECYCLE! plastered all over it should sink in eventually. I'm feeling so smug now it's even stopped me moaning about free range chicken being sold out everywhere after all the scary TV that's been on lately. (Everyone's been buying free range eggs for ages! When did people stop associating eggs with chickens?)

Random Day Off

Hooray! Rose tea, McVities plain chocolate digestives and Frasier repeats.

Bollo's Audition

Brilliant.

Cat Alarm Clock

My friend George sent me this ages ago and I only just got around to watching it, and it really made me laugh...

Kew in October

It's feeling properly Autumnal now, so going to Kew on Saturday was a bit different to usual (although in a good way). It's even more beautiful at the moment than normal, and it helps me to exorcise that feeling I get at this time of year when I want to run around taking photographs everywhere I go (so I took about a zillion). I thought these little trees looked a bit like hearts with their red leaves. Aaah. How lame of me.