Inspiration. Travel. Life.
It took me less than a month to realise that I don’t want to leave my new found home. I only fear it will take me longer than 6 weeks to figure out how to make that happen.
If there was ever a perfect cue for a good, wish-granting witch to enter, this would be it.
The Voice?
It’s an impressive feat to find the single most annoying person in the state of New York on your first day living here. It’s even more impressive to move into the apartment opposite them. Near enough exactly a month ago (!) Tom and I were woken up after a restless first night in Brooklyn to …
Today in musical theatre…
“There will never, ever, be another time in my career when I can say I am simultaneously playing Wendla Bergmann and Hedda Gabler. An actress’s dream.”
I love New York. Have I mentioned that yet? I’m actually writing this on the subway during a 3am journey back to Brooklyn that has the misfortune of being on a local train. In other words this means I could probably travel the width of England in the time it will now take me to …
It’s a little known fact (ahem) that I spent the two summers of 2008/9 at an incredible place, safely nestled away in the heart of Massachusetts’ Berkshire Mountains. Camp Emerson was where I met some of my best friends and had some truly unforgettable experiences and since the day I first arrived there at 19 …
Just the three of us.
The Pug, the boyfriend and me.
Scene of happiness.
Terrible effort on my behalf for not updating this sooner. I will write a full round up of my wonderful first week soon when I have photos to demonstrate exactly how beautiful this city can be if you’re in the right place. Sadly I’m currently not in the right place so all potential writing time …
Two Door Cinema Club – “Sun”
On the eve of my final night in London, this song goes out to the one person who more than anyone else has given me every ounce of self belief I have needed to embark on this journey. The only thing more overwhelming than leaving someone special for a while is the knowledge that the real adventure together has just begun and the rest, truly, is still unwritten. ”New York to London… I’ll stay right there with you”
(Full credit to my fabulous Aunt Susan for introducing me to this memorable and oh so apt track)