“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain
Just a quick batch this week kittens. My future bestselling YA author buddy Caitlin is in town – from China, by way of Paris. We’ve been swapping stories of the expat and writing life, taking tea, and going to the theatre. And if you’ll excuse me, we’re off this evening for more of the same (you can follow along on our adventures here until the official recap in a couple days)! Here are your links and tell me what you’re up to this weekend!
In honor of Caitlin, who for a time worked as Winnie-the-Pooh at Disney World, I’ll just leave this thing here. Oh bother!
Amanda Brooks is an author and former Barney’s fashion director who switched up her life and career plans to move to a farm in Britain with her family. She blogs about it here (and her instagram feed is beyond worth following), cataloging her rural life. I loved this recent post on the hunts she and her family participate in. Blood sport is controversial, and I’m not making an argument about it here, but I have to admit the tweedy, old fashioned, country elegance of the participants makes for some beautiful photography! Lady Mary, is that you?
Excellent advice for writers, #8 resonates with me particularly lately.
Remember, you have the same amount of hours each day as Beyonce. And Beethoven. And Balzac.
When we were in Paris we saw that a cottage industry had sprung up around “love locks,” but apparently they are quite literally putting some structures in danger.
Baby naming phenomenons are interesting to me. This time, let’s hear it for the boys. h/t Savvy.
Hilarious and awesome writer and friend of the blog Sunny from Sunny in London, put together a great post today on tips for aspiring bloggers and writers. I took notes.
NO. Not okay! Unbelievably not okay!
I often get slightly annoyed when I hear people rave about how much they “love a British accent,” because I want them to specify: which one? Because let me tell you know, not all regional dialects are equally sexy and what most people think of as a British accent is a clipped form of speech developed almost entirely in the upper class halls of learning to be used in the new medium of radio.
The internet is a strange place, the oddest things can be linked. Often weirdly successfully.
Small Dog Syndrome 
For the writers’ tips, I like 4, 7 and 8. The item on leading men and much younger women is sad but not v surprising — I assume that 99% of major motion pictures are bankrolled and green-lighted by men, and this suits their egos just fine.
Yep!