Hi everyone! Sorry but this is just a waffling post (highly unusual for me...NOT haha), i promise if you scroll down there is some cool stuff! I'm tres annoyed with spotify atm, from may 1st all users of their free service are now allowed only 9 hours worth of music-listening, listen to each song five times at the most and they've significantly upped the amount and length of the adverts with stupid annoying men that talk to you (i swear they pick the ones with the most annoying voices so that you are driven into paying for premium - NOT GONNA HAPPEN!). Oh and i worked out earlier that if you try to mute the sound when an advert comes on, spotify knows and pauses the advert, forcing you to listen to it one way or another. I've therefore resorted to going back to youtube playlists and have spent the last hour listening to songs that i haven't in a good while. Luurrvelly :) Taking a break from the perpetual english lit coursework atm (i managed to hand history in before the easter holiday) with my first glass of wine in ages, and am planning to dance around wildly in the dark kitchen to the White Stripes' 'Elephant' album in a mo (i've used up my alotted 5 plays for 'Girl, you have no faith in medicine' which certainly will not do). I'm dying to do some more meaty, interesting posts on the blog right now but just haven't the time to get that distracted. In the mean time, however, here's one of the songs i've listened to on my youtube playlist this evening and a beautiful, colourful painting by Henry Siddons Mowbray that i discovered on the blog 'A Polar Bear's tale' - i'm definately going to have to look into this artist! Right now though, i'm suprising myself with how much i'm enjoying being back at school - i was far too much of a recluse in the holidays, it got rather depressing actually. Also looking forward to getting sloshed for the first time in aaages this saturday (i WILL make this fit in with my work timetable...alcohol is essential in maintaining one's sanity).
P.S - I caught up with 'Monty Don's Italian Gardens' on BBC iplayer the other day. This third episode explored southern Italy around Naples and was absolutely gorgeous. I really need to get my arse over there one day when i have the money. I enjoyed it much more than the second episode which explored the gardens of the North around Florence. Much as i'd love to go there one day, the gardens were very much centered around the renaissance ideas of order of balance - something which i can't really identify with and which generally doesn't inspire me. The southern gardens were significantly more romantic, as were those in the first episode which looked at renaissance gardens of cardinals around Rome who used them to show their power and in their competition for the Papacy. Infact i think i'm going to throw in a couple of photos of the garden 'Ninfa' which featured in the third, most recent episode. It's got a beautiful story behind it, i've copied this explanation from Wikipedia as per usual:
The garden includes the remains of the ancient city of Ninfa, perhaps founded by the Volscians at the feet of the Monti Lepini. In the Middle Ages the town was a rich commune on the Appian Way, being 1159 by order of emperor Frederick Barbarossa, after his enemy Pope Alexander III had taken refuge in the town.
Ninfa was repopulated by its inhabitants, under the seigniory of the Caetani, but in the 16th century remained desert due to the expansion of the surrounding marshes and the arrival of malaria.
The castle and the area were renewed in the 20th century in the English garden style.
Ninfa:
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| Sorry this one is sideways - i really don't know why and can't be bother to edit it. |
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| Fleur De Luce - Henry Siddons Mowbray |
Lots of love
Lucy
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