May 2012
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”
—
Jawaharial Nehru
had a eurovision party last night complete with eurovision cupcakes, scoresheets and over-enthusiastic singing
completely unsurprised at how disastrously the uk did
(my favourites were norway, lithuania, sweden and germany)
(and of course those lovely russian grannies)
“At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.”
—Alberto Manguel
