Idleness is a blessing

I'm sitting here, in my electric-blanket-heated bed, with a belly almost too full of mojito cupcake, and it occurs to me that life is good. I passed my exams [whoop!], my favourite season is in full swing, and my only problems are too much cake and too little time.

My past two weeks have been spent doing absolutely nothing, I'm very happy to say, lots of afternoon teas and country walks and knitting scarves and getting to know my family's two new puppies. Museums and cinema trips and a very belated Christmas present of a Bon Iver gig.

Tomorrow I start back at university, and while I'm not exactly thrilled about the upcoming week of lectures, there's some part of me that relishes these fresh starts. New topics, unopened notebooks, fresh pages, old faces, you know the drill. Early starts, however, are going to be the death of me.

I've been a bit naughty with my new music - downloaded the new Feist, Ryan Adams, Blind Pilot and Laura Marling albums, but I've yet to give them a sit down-headphones on listen. Here's a couple of tunes anyway:

Mates Of State - Desire
Aunt Martha - Sodom, South Georgia [Iron & Wine cover]
Radical Face - Always Gold

It's beginning to feel a lot like autumn

Hello lovely people. Guess what? My exams are over! They were horrific. Picture me, stressed, frantically giving CPR to a dummy, calling out for a crash team while an examiner stands over me and says "No one is coming. You are on your own." I had to be strongly dissuaded from physically giving mouth to mouth to this poor abused dummy.

But I'm done! Cue dinner parties with lots of beef and red wine, long hours curled up with a book, visits to grimey clubs [everyone told me I wouldn't like it, they were right. It's not for me.], and hungover visits to the oldest pub in Scotland followed by photoshoots with old friends

I always spend the run up to exams motivating myself with promises of what will be possible after exams. After exams is a wonderful place where anything can happen, people can magically gain money to do exciting things, and the world is filled with embroidered pillows and homemade marshmallows.

I fully intend to spend the next two weeks trying to make this happen. And now, to the music. here are some lovely beginning-of-nippy-weather songs.

Youth Lagoon - Afternoon 

Cults - Never Heal Myself 

Aunt Martha - Bloodshot 

The Head And The Heart - Winter Song