"Natural material: Its colour and texture make a room of peace... Its warmth and gentleness relieve one's mind.... Its simplicity and naivete never lose one's interest... Our lives and culture were made from and were developed by natural materials. In busy, everyday life, people of today have less chance to touch nature. Flower, nuts, ocean, twig, ( Read more... )

I want to sleep
underneath the weeping willow
as it cries all night quietly
It's tears all around me
I'll sleep there so soundly
until im allowed finally
To wake and be happy again

To wake and be happy again.

Name/username/nickname: Dumbo
best personality trait: I am bloody stupid.
Worst personality trait: the inability to resist pointless time-waster
quizzes and personality tests.
You know you're addicted to Quizzes when: You post five days worth of
entries that are just quizzes.
Which word is most like you: Banana
Oh, that means you are blah blah ( Read more... )

I don't have many memories from my early school days. I can recall few faces, a crush or two, a faint and sleepy, sweet and musty lemon-scent that seems to fall upon me whenever I get nostalgic. As I turn fourteen, the memories become slightly clearer ( Read more... )

There's this guy where I work, Duncan. He's one of those people that loves food so much they can't control the little grunts and 'mm's of pleasure as they eat. And at the moment, he seems to be obsessed with McDonalds. Eww, McDonalds? McJonalds? Maccy J's? McChoadleburger? I can't eat that stuff any more. ...Sometimes their chips are good ( Read more... )

AmsterdamA mercifully brief and uneventful train and flight to Schipol airport and a connection to Centraal station and I'm there! Whenever I step out the front of that station I feel like I've come home, I suppose because the people are all so relaxed, friendly and happy-seeming. I travelled up from London with a uni friend, Simon, and in the ( Read more... )

I've just realised that where I live, in a house in Reading with three friends (and several 'lodgers') I'm completely cut off from the world! I don't read a newspaper, we don't have terrestrial television for the news, WWIII could break out and I'd be none the wiser ( Read more... )

As all inhabitants of Reading, England will know, and probably a couple of other people as well, the weekend just passed saw host to the Reading Rock Festival. This is a huge music festival featuring all sorts of brilliant acts like ( Read more... )

As he stared into the black, black recesses of his coffee cup, a thought struck home ( Read more... )