Life: A List: Part 1.

Things that I want to do more of, for fun:

Read – curl up with a book without feeling guilty
Watch films
Go to the cinema

‘Saturate yourself with stories. Read, watch, experience, and your own story will flow.’ – Ksenia Anske.

Go exploring in London
Daydream
Try new recipes/bake/make a mess of the kitchen

‘The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude.’ – Julia Child.

Dance around to new music and old favourites
Notice things and take photos
Make lists

‘The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like ‘Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.’ – David Viscott.

Read my favourite blogs
Have intriguing Twitter conversations
Go to free museums and art galleries

‘Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.’ – Jerry Saltz.

Write letters to friends and family
Make Blurb books
Learn new crafts – papercrafts, bookcrafts, collaging…

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr Seuss.

Dress up just for the hell of it
Go for walks and sit at the top of hills
Play with the cats

“I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.” – Neil Gaiman.

Search for and listen to new music
Read and write poetry
Go to the library and leave with a pile of books

“A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.” – Lemony Snicket.

Sit in cafés and people-watch
Write flash-fiction
Cover everything with decopatch glue and book pages

“In any of my pages in any of my books may live a perfect account of my secret experience of the world. ” – Alberto Manguel.

Learn a repertoire of sign-songs
Browse bookshops, even if I’m not buying
Browse perfume, even if they’re too expensive to buy! (perfume is my thing)

‘The love affair created by a good perfume between you and other people, you and nature, you and yourself, you and your memories and anticipations and hopes and dreams; it is all too beautiful a thing!’ – C. Joybell. C.

Go to Paperchase or stationery shops and marvel at the pretty paper and sleek pens
Use Tumblr and Pinterest to curate images, quotes and articles of interest

…always keeping in mind that you shouldn’t feel bad if you can’t always do more – sometimes less is more…

‘We don’t need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do’s and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.’ – Philip Pullman.