for January...

Could probably replace some of the crap ones though

i want a boat-bed!

christmas!

“Always on Christmas night there was music. An uncle played the fiddle, a cousin sang ‘Cherry Ripe,’ and another uncle sang ‘Drake’s Drum.’ It was very warm in the little house.
Auntie Hannah, who had got on to the parsnip wine, sang a song about Bleeding Hearts and Death, and then another in which she said her heart was like a Bird’s Nest; and then everybody laughed again; and then I went to bed. Looking through my bedroom window, out into the moonlight and the unending smoke-colored snow, I could see the lights in the windows of all the other houses on our hill and hear the music rising from them up the long, steadily falling night. I turned the gas down, I got into bed. I said some words to the close and holy darkness, and then I slept.”

Dylan Thomas

Ruins

New Portico Quartet song, Ruins.... It's bloody lovely!

memorialized

On Tuesday night, Ted Hughes was celebrated as great English poets often are: with a memorial in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. His memorial stone quotes his poem "That Morning":

So we found the end of our journey,
So we stood alive in the river of light,
Among the creatures of light, creatures of light.

here is a beautifully fond celebration of the life and work of Ted Hughes here on BBC Radio 4: Ted Hughes - Memorial Tones