My new favourite place for coffee.
Images via Caffè Vergnano
When Kate cut her hair into this gamine crop I remember being not at all keen. How could I have been so wrong? I found this gorgeous photo of her on her way to Stella McCartney's Chloe show (A/W 01/02). She looks so elfin, and doesn't it look like it was taken back in the 60s?
Every time I came across each one of these photos I thought I'd found my ideal bedroom but looking at them all now I really can't choose which one I like the most. Isn't that always the way? I would love to have a home with windows as huge as those above (all that light streaming in every morning, sigh), I think the winter wonderland feel of the room below is so cosy and magical, but I can't help but be drawn to the messily creative room at the bottom. That bedspread looks so warm.
Images sourced via Sweet Home Style (sorry, unknown source for image 1!)
I absolutely love this poem by Charles Bukowski:
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I’m not going
to let anybody see
you.
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I pour whiskey on him and inhale
cigarette smoke
and the whores and the bartenders
and the grocery clerks
never know that
he’s
in there.
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too tough for him,
I say,
stay down, do you want to mess
me up?
you want to screw up the
works?
you want to blow my book sales in
Europe?
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too clever, I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody’s asleep.
I say, I know that you’re there,
so don’t be sad.
then I put him back,
but he’s still singing a little
in there, I haven’t quite let him
die
and we sleep together like
that
with our
secret pact
and it’s nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don’t
weep, do
you?
Aren't these laser-cut cards beautiful? They're from the Hummingbird Card Company.
