Some things I like
Small bookshops, buying (too many) books, reading, discovering and listening to music (new and old), fresh fruit and vegetables, cooking (I rarely follow recipes), good red wine, “Apfelschorle”, proper bread, looking at and taking photographs (both film and digital), languages, words, figures of speech, Dutch bicycles, cycling, walking, traveling, being at home, lying on lawns and in beds, beds in general, sleeping long hours, swimming in the sea, the sea, collecting seashells, the gentle crackle of vinyl records, kind people, people who laugh a lot, people who know how to tell a good story, people who listen, decisiveness, hands (not my hands), the hum of the city at night, empty streets and desolated landscapes, Saturday mornings, the first blossom in Spring, trees in Autumn, freshly ground espresso coffee, the smell of rosemary and thyme, wooden floors, dark chocolate, Azulejos, Sepia, the British Museum, Graffiti, cable cars, ferry boats, Victorian and Edwardian houses, sheepskin slippers, good lighting, Cornerhouse cinema, gigs where no one talks, notes on park benches and poetry on cobble stones, old letters and diaries, pressed dried flowers, house plants, swings, scarves, notebooks, globes and maps, honey, making lists, flea markets, “shyness is nice and shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life you’d like to”, Lush products, the Today Programme on BBC Radio 4, finding something I’ve lost, leather bags, the sun in the late afternoon, nothing out of the ordinary, everything (and too much sometimes) …
