You Can Never Find a Cup of Tea Large Enough...

...or a book long enough to suit me.

I was on a quote website... yes, quotes about tea, and I came across this. It's a response about the bombings on the tube, and about how shopkeepers and businesses in London took cups of tea and blankets to those shocked and stranded:

"When the news reporter said "Shopkeepers are opening their doors bringing out blankets and cups of tea" I just smiled. It's like yes. That's Britain for you. Tea solves everything. You're a bit cold? Tea. Your boyfriend has just left you? Tea. You've just been told you've got cancer? Tea. Coordinated terrorist attack on the transport network bringing the city to a grinding halt? Tea dammit! And if it's really serious, they may bring out the coffee. The Americans have their alert raised to red, we break out the coffee. That's for situations more serious than this of course. Like another England penalty shoot-out. ~Jslayeruk, as posted on Metaquotes Livejournal, in response to the July 2005 London subway bombings"

It just made me smile... that our strength, as a nation, resides in tea. I love the stuff. If I'm stressed, if I need to relax, if I need to write an essay and I just can't concentrate, it's what I drink. It's great for summer and winter, and drinking in the bath. So I leave you with the wise words of Billy Connolly:

Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cozy, doesn't try it on.

growing up.

Basically... packing to go back to uni and my parents cleared out our loft the other week. Had a load of old stuff from when me and my siblings were children...i wrote some wonderful stories as a child...

"One day I went into the woods and there were badgers and bears in the woods so I made friends with the badgers and bears and we had a picnic and then it was time to go to bed so I slept with the badgers and bears..."

I don't like all this growing up stuff much at times....

Dear Friends....Part 2

Mainly Male Friends...

Dear Friend who took Me Up St.Pauls

I do not see you enough, so when I did it was lovely to see you. Thank you for the amazing facebook chats, the lovely cuddles, and the good laughs that we always have. Not so thanks for the fact we do not have them enough.

I think that is definitely enough hinting for now.

Love from

The Friend who you bought Kopperburg.

Dear Three Friends who I can Never Seperate.

I miss you three. I miss being in a room, watching you play Halo. I miss you laughing at me swearing at Halo. I miss going for walks whilst you are being illegal. I miss cleaning one of your sinks. I miss snuggles with you all. I miss you all a lot.

You have the most beautiful Bromance in the world, and you MUST visit us from Mount Clare.

Much Love

The Friend Who Ups your Kill Count.

Dear Friend who got there one Day Late

It's been so lovely to see you this summer, I miss you when I am at Uni and you must come and visit me! I miss you lots and lots, we have had some very nice times this summer! :) Wales would have been crap without you, and I am STILL sorry for shouting. But my knickers were not in a Twist.

Many Thanks and Many Loves

The Friend who you only shout at when you're REALLY stressed.

Dear Friend Who Fell Down A Moutain.

Idiot

Love

(One of) The Friend(s) Who Saved your Arse.

Dear Friend Who is Beautiful, and Swings the other Way,

You are beautiful and I have missed you so much this summer. I'm gutted you couldn't come to my bbq, but I am so so glad that you managed to go to Beckys :) we have had such wonderful times together, and I look forward so much to next year is going to be just wonderful :)

Love From,

The Friend who gets Evils When she Dances with you at Bop.

Dear Friend Who is Ginger and Spanish (sort of)

Only Seven Days, my dear, and you have to suffer the wrath of living with me and Kbear. However, This isn't so bad when you consider the fact that we are going to make cakes, and tidy up a lot, and treat you very well, and things like that. I look forward to us having a lot of good times next year, because it will be awesome :)

Love From

Friend who Can't wait to Live with You.

Dear Friend who I love more than All Of Them

You are the bear and I am the Tree. I love you till the End.

Love From

The Girl who is So Glad that You got her A Coffee.

Dear Friends....

Dear Friend who Wrote me A Letter.

I miss you alot. I miss shouting at you from window, and running around in thunderstorms with a certain beautiful ginger boy. I miss sitting in my room talking about just how GAY everyone is because they aren't at uni. I miss sitting watching u all be "really illegal, guyyys" and being the very best I can be at halo.

But, In however many days time, we shall be reunited, and ginger boys, thunderstorms, being illegal and halo will be goin' on. There shall be freshers to meet, parties to go to, and fun times with fun peeplies. I look forward to it all.

Much Love

Friend Who Lives In Stevenage.

xxx

Dear Friend who will work in a Toy Shop with Me

I have missed you muchly this summer. I am like a husband without his wife, and a bone without it's dog. But in Seven days time, life will be complete again. And hopefully, just hopefully, we will both have a job working for the loveliest little toyshop ever.

I miss you.

Love from,

Friend Who will work in a Toy Shop with You.

Dear Friend who Lives near the Aeroplanes.

You are rubbish. You could've lived with us this year, but no.

It's okay though. Because I love you more than biscuits, and you know JUST how much I love biscuits. I look forward to the tea drinking, the crazy dancing, and the sleepovers where we have a bed big enough for the both of us. I miss you a lot. Like Nemo misses his Dad, and Dory misses her memory.

Lots of Love from

Your Friend who Can't Drive

Dear Friend Who Went To Egypt without Me.

You went to Egypt without me, and I have only seen you twice this summer. As usual, you looked stunning both times and put everyone else to shame. I can't wait for you to move in to your new flat, and to have ur freshers and things. It is going to be good times :)

I miss you and ur stylish ways millions. I even miss your spelling mistakes.

Love from

Friend who always corrects your essays.

Dear Friend who rescued me from Wales.

Thank you for rescuing me from Wales. And, more often than not, from myself. You are an angel, and I will miss you so much when I go back. I don't think there is much more to say than that.

Love from,

Your Friend who is Brilliant at Gears of War 2

Dear Friend who Dribbled on my Leg.

You are one of the very few people I will ever let get really drunk in a club and then dribble on me. I had a fantastic time with you this summer and I am going to miss u so much when I go back. you and Michael Mcintyre must come to visit when you get the chance. I will miss Frankie, and I will miss you being a brunette (which i loveeee). I only wish we could have spent more time together, my dear.

Lots of love,

Your friend who Kissed A Girl.

Dear Friend who got, amongst other things, a new Puppy this summer.

Well, running is the first thing. At least we tried. D of E is the second thing. Again, at least we tried. Getting Gary to come to the pub....at least we tried. I think our summer is taking on a kind of pattern, don't you?

Anyway, this summer has been brilliant despite all the trial and error, and I look forward to you staying with me when I go back to Roehampton. Will miss you awfully.

Loads of Love,

Your Friend who you tell Secrets to.

Dear Friend whose Boyfriend was a...lets not go there.

WELL. the fact you now have a boyfriend AND a full time job is rubbish. I saw a certain set of brothers MORE than I saw you this summer. BUT... when I did see you, it was wonderful and lovely and just like old times. We need more times like that. You need to come and see me in Roehampton, please. Kaythanksbye.

Love From,

Your Friend who misses the Old Times, and wants the New Times.

haven't written in ages!

I'm moving into my new flat in London with 2 very wonderful people in 9- no, wait, now it's 8 days time. I'm very excited, but feel a bit too young to be growing up so damn fast...

Anyway, I found this whilst clearing through the piles of stuff I want to take with me (large pile) need to take with me (slightly smaller pile) and don't want to take with me (...the only thing in that pile is my twin, and even she won't stay put!...). It's an extract from a poem by W H Auden...

Can it pull extraordinary faces?

Is it usually sick on a swing?

Does it spend all it's time at the races,

Or fiddling with pieces of string?

Has it views of it's own about money?

Does it think Patriotism enough?

Are it's stories vulgar but funny?

O, tell me the truth about Love.

When it comes will it come without warning?

Just as I'm picking my nose?

Will it knock on the door in the morning,

Or tread in the bus on my shoes?

Will it come like a change in the weather?

Will it's greeting be courteous or rough?

Will it alter my life altogether?

O, tell me the truth about Love.

You should look up the whole poem. It's long, but rather wonderful, and very witty. Shall post a new one soon if I come across one I like.

xXx

its 2 oclock in the morning, and I'm on my 2nd mug of coffee.

Dearest Bed,

I really do miss you, honestly.

But unfortunately, I have been kidnapped by that evil fiend, Uni Work.

I know what you're thinking, Bed. "Oh no, Not him again!"

But I must pay a 4,000 word ransom before I am set free,

and seeing as you, bed, cannot write, it falls to me to deliver myself.

All I ask is that you wait for me to return to you.

Lots of Love

Claire

xxx

my newest challenge!!!

Here is a challenge for you.

Well its more about you helping me fulfill a challenge for myself...

basically, i want to learn 100 poems in a year.

of by heart so that I can recite them

the only trouble is...

what poems??

which is where you come in

comment me with poems that you think i could learn- none of this paradise lost stuff, be reasonable with me!!

here's a snippet of the poems I've already got on the list, feel free to send me your suggestions! Many thanks

Sonnet 130, 116, and 18- William Shakespeare

Valentine-Carol Ann Duffy

Words-Sylvia Plath

She Walks in Beauty- Byron

As Kingfishers Catch Fire, and The Windhover- Hopkins

let me know guys :D

xXx