thailand! for eleven entire additional unplanned days in the end! here’s me announcing i am going to get more gyoza from the buffet like a villain revealing their grand plan at the end of the movie. best thing we did was snorkelling with reef sharks. worst thing was getting caught in the crossfire of a geopolitical disaster. okay thanks
we said goodbye to our sweet lily this morning. she did her best, but she was suffering too much in the end to let her keep going. she had various brushes with death over the years, and so it is a miracle to be grateful for that we got as long with her as we did. she was the best little dog, so gentle and good. we loved her fit to burst and i will miss her for the rest of my life
missed it over the weekend which i am now feeling guilty about even though she knows less than nothing about anything, but sunday was 3 years since we adopted sushi II. we love her so much! and why wouldn’t we! look at her!
japan. the audio instagram suggested i add to this post was ‘better together’ by jack johnson. remember jack johnson. part of that strange epidemic of shoeless musicians. see also jason mraz. anyway. photos!
some spring stuff 🌱
1 - a selfie, in a bar toilet? groundbreaking!
2 - a creature i was quite taken with
3 - over the top thai restaurant in stockholm
4 - playtesting!
5 - disco keeping me and august company while we played an infuriatingly opaque video game called immortality, has anyone played this, did you get any of the story at all or
6 - good fountain in helsinki
7 - spooky artwork in helsinki
8 - a growth on a tree stump in finland that i thought might be mushrooms but turned out to be baguette
9 - miniature wild herb cheesecakes
10 - sunset on the baltic sea
11 - the nicest hotel room i’ve ever stayed in, where we watched a lot of You, a show that sucks so bad and i love it
12 - our personal sauna at the hotel (!)
13 - some finnish birdhouses
14 - me and a man asleep in a bar
15 - a very unfriendly pig called poishti (sp?) who used to be in the movie business
16 - helsinki train station
17 - dog about whom i would say “mood” if people still said that
18 - artist’s impression of what it would be like if sushi had a pet gecko that rode around on her back, you understand
19 - jesse in the cowboy shirt i got him for his birthday with sushi Lurking
20 - a cat being taken to jail
march! would you believe i took this first photo while i was at death’s door with the flu? would you perhaps ask why did i take this photo while i was at death’s door with the flu? the answer is ofc vanity but still, seems odd to me in hindsight. happy spring!
goodbye to greenland! somewhere i feel really really lucky to have got to see. thanks to people who messaged to say they were enjoying learning about greenland and/or experiencing wild travel delays vicariously through me lol. sincerely, it felt nice to be able to share it and to feel like i had company even during the times when i didn’t ❤️
didn’t do much except work and play my guitar badly this january which was fine it’s only january isn’t it, to be endured. so here is:
- me being vain with the scratchcards
- sushi discovering the ceiling
- an incinerated bin in tottenham
- a threatening-looking martini i did not drink
- a very good horrible mug that doesn’t belong to me, alas
- elise’s book launch which was amazing fair play january you smashed that one
- a thing i ordered at wong kei which i am really sorry to say i didn’t enjoy eating as much as i hoped but it looks great and i like it in there
- a video posted by a man who feeds his local raccoons and has become some kind of god figure to them
- thurstan being maybe immorally honest about people’s palm readings
- some onions made of resin! fancy that!
- a ziplock bag of lard i saw at my dad’s house
2024! sorry to be 32 years old but i spend quite a lot of time really fretting about whether im doing the right things or in the right place in my life or what it all means yada yada. maybe you do too. seems likely. and the end of a year always makes me think about that even more, inevitably, which i find stressful. but i am trying to be more like: who cares. everyone’s just doing their best aren’t they. i can’t remember what i’ve been doing one week to the next to be honest (another thing for the old fret board*) but i had a look and it seems like it was a pretty good year. still quite mental that they took one of my organs. have a nice time in 2025 everyone. the picture is of a woman who appeared for a few minutes on a tv show who looks like me but old. cheers!
*guitar based metaphor i am experimenting with i am learning guitar guys did i say
