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Month: June 2017

Marked As Safe

June 4, 2017June 4, 2017Leave a comment

For the second time in three months, I’ve marked myself as safe during a terror incident. Here is why I'd do so again.

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London makes me a constant tourist 🤓 . . So I only found out a few weeks ago that Tower Bridge is Victorian, that Shad Thames was called ‘the larder of london’ for centuries because it’s where all the grain and fruit and sugar from around the world arrived, that the Thames doesn’t freeze anymore because the Embankment made the river so much narrower that now it flows too fast and deep to freeze. However, all of these are quite delightful and it makes me happy to know them. . . “I thought how lovely and how strange a river is. A river is a river, always there, and yet the water flowing through it is never the same water and is never still. It’s always changing and is always on the move. And over time the river itself changes too. It widens and deepens as it rubs and scours, gnaws and kneads, eats and bores its way through the land. Even the greatest rivers- the Nile and the Ganges, the Yangtze and he Mississippi, the Amazon and the great grey-green greasy Limpopo all set about with fever trees-must have been no more than trickles and flickering streams before they grew into mighty rivers. Are people like that? I wondered. Am I like that?” - Aidan Chambers . . #sunset #sunrise #pinksky #twilight #dusk #alittlebeautyeveryday #positivity #thames #riverlife #riverside #bytheriver #cityscape #citylights #goodvibes #thisgirlcan #nerdery #myeverydaymagic #bestplacestogo #sheisnotlost #neverstopexploring #thosewhowander #dametraveler #bookquotes #igquotes #aidenchambers #thisisall

Happy birthday to me 💁‍♀️✨ . . There’s nothing like starting a new year with a new collection of fiction, amiright? Did a little book shop for my birthday - from classics like The Night Manager by Le Carré to shiny new novels like Schwab’s latest, City Of Ghosts and Han Lang’s The White Book. Already cracking through Sleeping Giants (which is bizarre and brilliant and addictive so far) and I think the Kurniawan has to come next. . . Anyway there’s still room for a few more on the shelf (just) so any recommendations? Leave a comment below. . . #bookish #bibliophile #bibliophilia #booknerdigans #igbooks #igrecommends #igreads #amreading #wordnerd #booknerd #alittlebeautyeveryday #positivity #goodvibes #birthdaygirl #birthdaybooks #cityofghosts #veschwab #hankang #thewhitebook #vengeanceismineallotherspaycash #sleepinggiants #johnlecarré

This ain’t sea world, this is as real as it gets 🐬🐬 . . Yesterday we had blue skies and wild waves - perfect weather for dolphins, even if it is the Solent - and an excellent end to an afternoon of too much rosé (as if there is such a thing) and the most delicious food at @thehutcolwell. In terms of an end to the summer, it really couldn’t have been better. . . Video courtesy of my much more talented brother, @georgeallner . . #imonaboat #dolphin #bankholiday #boatlife #boating #igtravels #travelgram #bestplacestogo #sheisnotlost #neverstopexploring #dametraveler #roséallday #solent #dorset #jurassiccoast #beachplease #goodvibes #positivity #suitcasetravels

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