Scattered Strawberry Summer

You might have been looking for this for ages  Samuel Barber, Adagio for Strings ...

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 When I'm not on reddit, I usually check feedly to see if my favourite bloggers have updated their sites.One of them, Bleubird, I've been following  for years and years. I've seen her younger children being born and growing up.Her blog is beautiful, she has a fantastic  family, her taste is similar to mine. This blog gives me somewhat unrealistic expectations about life. One of my...

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I've booked tickets to Lithuania- woop woop! I haven't been there for almost two years, we're planning to visit our grandparents and that's pretty much it. I think all my friends and former classmates in the capital now and we're not planning to go there, there won't be time. It will be interesting to see my hometown, where I spent my first 19...

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I went to library and got a bunch of various books for this project. This week's read is Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce. " <...> it traces the intellectual and religio-philosophical awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of Joyce and an allusion to Daedalus, the consummate craftsman of Greek mythology. Stephen questions and rebels against...

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I love that Friday feeling I love that Friday feeling ...

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When fake meat tastes too meaty People keep asking you where you get your protein from Parmesan in "vegetarian" dishes Nobody understands difference between vegetarian and vegan Jokes about “rabbit food.” People will constantly tell you how they could “Never stop eating bacon.” You need a laser-sharp vision for identifying meat in buffet salads and sandwiches “So, why are you a vegetarian?” You...

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My SO has been listening to this song for years or so it seems. I rather like it. Sonic Youth- Superstar ...

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This week I'm reading The Great Gatsby. I've been meaning to read this way before the film came out but never got to it. I still haven't seen the film and I want to, but I'd like to read the book first. Unlike some other lucky people, we didn't get to read it at school. I always thought our literature lessons didn't cover enough...

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The flowers I got from my SO has lasted for almost two weeks and they smell so nice. This is probably the first time he got my red roses [gasp!] in our almost 8 year long relationship. He usually gets something different, like sunflowers. I love that about him. ...

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Happy Monday everyone! I don't mind having a day off on Monday, though part of my mind is still thinking about work. I only checked my work email once, that's a major achievement for me... I wish I spent my Monday in PJs but that was not going to happen a) I did that on Sunday b) it's a lot less interesting without...

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When I was Brighton a few weeks ago, I had to kill sometime while waiting for my friend who missed the train, I stumbled a market on my way to North Laine. I found my this week's read- an early edition of The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. In case that wasn't obvious form my previous blog posts, I'm quite a fan. I haven't...

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I was inspired by r/britishproblems to create my own list of immigrant problems People think I'm a weirdo for drinking tea without milk "All right?" I find it hart to understand why Britain goes into panic mode then it starts snowing I never know when people ask me where I from, do they ask where I am from originally or where I live...

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I'm staying at a hotel again,. I'm away for a conference. Only took me 5 hours to get here. It' might quite nice change to get away from the office as there's been very negative atmosphere. I've been away a lot lately, but I won't have many travels after this trip.It's nice to go away but I don't like being away from my...

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This weeks book is Nothing to Complain About?: Outlandish Letters for Implausible Problems by Michael A. Lee. It's a collection of witty, outrageous letters, some are just weird requests to a range of people and organisations, including a  letter of complaint to his dentist after a young neighbour's milk tooth is ignored by the tooth fairy and he received some funny responses too. I read...

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