WISHING WELLS

if you can get to london then pleeeeaaaase go and see the marilyn monroe exhibition at the national portrait gallery... easily the best exhibition i've seen in years. she was so special and she makes me so sad... truly one of the world's great tortured artists

i'm spending a week where i grew up in south-east england, and a lot of my excitement about going down was because i miss the particulars of how the countryside looks especially in the summer... very lush and verdant and just very very english. but IN FACT the heat waves have made most of the grass very very brown. it's like looking out at fields of wheat, i kind of only half recognise it as the landscape i grew up in. extremely sad thinking that as climate change accelerates more of these effects will kick in!

hi everyone are we all having a nice evening. i had my hair black for ten years and finally i couldn't tolerate it anymore, so a few weeks ago i went to a hairdresser to have them dye it brown and i paid £300 for pretty much zero change in colour (my colleague asked me the day after i had it done when i was going to dye my hair -_-). after this i thought "there's no way i can't do a better job of this myself" so i bleached it myself and dyed it how i wanted it and okay okay. the colour is great the colour is exactly what i wanted. BUT MY CURLS ARE GONE. i mean i have naturally 3a curly hair and it is now it dries pretty much straight. and can i be real with you all i do feel that my life is over

in university i was really obsessed with making ice cream but since going vegan i got out of the habit... but in the last few weeks i've gotten a really good vegan base figured out so i've been getting back into it. and it's so all-consuming. last week i made yeast ice cream (tastes like brioche, probably my all-time favourite ice cream), yesterday i made toasted vanilla, next week i'm thinking wholemeal toast and marmalade, (based on a toast and marmalade ice cream an elder woman gave me at a dance class when i was a child... she was kind of insecure about it being a weird flavour but god it was so good). the thing is i can only really make one per week because i can't eat through it very quickly and it isn't something you can really give away. but hopefully that means i won't burn myself out on it. freeze myself out on it?

speaking of adventurousness... i went on a beautiful big road trip with my friend down the west coast of the US and i have unfortunately been forced to rescind every mean thing i've ever said about america. beautiful beautiful country with enormous apples and enormous trees. and people who are very nice about your english accent if you have one. if you live in the pacific northwest i envy you more than you will ever know