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Livvey K
Edinburgh UK
Interests: Cooking, baking, cyberpsychology, social psychology, ballroom dancing, films, photography, improbable business ventures, handbags, jewellery making, adventures, creative writing, illustrating, web and graphic design and improbable business ventures.
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The lecture sounds wonderful. I have to admit to a pang of jealousy reading your post- my now not-so-favourite iPhone failed to deliver the email confirming my reservation for a place at the lecture until this morning! But it is nice to hear some highlights.
Commented Sep 29, 2010 on Coco in Scotland at Cornflower
Coco in Scotland
Cross Art Deco chic with Scots Baronial grandeur and you get the perfect place in which to talk about the iconic Coco Chanel, a woman who perhaps surprisingly had strong and enduring connections with Scotland. Last night I was at the launch of Justine Picardie's biography Coco Chanel:...
What a fabulous picture. You can almost smell the brassicas! Thank you for an exhibition preview, I am now looking forward to going even more than I was before.
Commented Sep 29, 2010 on Eat your greens - and your blues and pinks and purples at Cornflower
Eat your greens - and your blues and pinks and purples
This is A Cabbage Garden by Arthur Melville (1877), one of my favourites from the Impressionist Gardens exhibition (see below). Why, you may ask, from among the Renoirs and the Monets, the romantic, the pretty, the wistful, the fanciful, the smart and grand, the domestic and intimate, hav...
Hmmm. If you click on "comment" and then "more", this should take you to a page where you can sign in with your Blogger ID. Is that any help?
Commented Aug 21, 2010 on Wordlessly at The dish ran away with the spoon
Wordlessly
As a child I wasn't too fond of my name, Olivia, and as a teenager shortened it to Livvey. Now 22, I find that I rather like Olivia but everybody knows me as Livvey now! My favourite example of wishing for a different name comes from Anne of Green Gables. As any true kindred spirit knows, she longed to be called Cordelia, but in the end grew to love Anne. As long as it was spelt with an E.
Commented Aug 20, 2010 on What's in a name? at Cornflower
What's in a name?
"I share your dislike of the shortening of names but I must say that I'm not sure 'Alexandra' is entirely suitable for you. It seems to me that you require a name with rather more brio. I see you as a 'Lexie'. What do you think?" That passage comes from Maggie O'Farrell's The Hand Th...
A food awakening 1: Dairy
Many people with M.E/CFS find that they have a food intolerance, with some of the most common being dairy, wheat, gluten and yeast to name but a few. I really feel that sorting out food intolerance can reap huge benefits in terms of energy levels and noticed this myself after... Continue reading
Posted Jul 27, 2010 at The Smart Student's Guide to M.E
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The joy of exams
Well here we are almost a entire month since I began this blog...and this is post number two. This fact exemplifies one of the major pitfalls of being an M.E/CFS blogger; the fact that things like sleeping tend to get in the way of one's delusions of cyberspace literary genius.... Continue reading
Posted Jul 6, 2010 at The Smart Student's Guide to M.E
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I was going to say that as the cat, having you must make me the cat that got the cream, however I thought that may be impolitic given the dairy-free nature of our household!
Commented Jun 28, 2010 on While the Cat's Away... at Spilled Notes
While the Cat's Away...
L is away in London for a week with her placement, working on the Culture Evolves exhibit at the Royal Society's Summer Exhibition. If you're in London and fancy going along, it's on at 10-8.30 until the 4th of July, and is free! So I'm trying to find ways to occupy myself while she's gone. Th...
Greetings!
Hi everyone, I have been wanting to write this blog for ages, but have only really worked up the courage now. My name is Livvey and I am a 22 year old student in the penultimate year of my Psychology degree and I have had M.E/CFS for almost seven years.... Continue reading
Posted Jun 1, 2010 at The Smart Student's Guide to M.E
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My Latin teacher at sixth-form was amazing. Suitably bearded as appears to be the fashion for the Latinite about school and a former shipping lawyer. When the "joy" of amo, amas, amat... became overwhelming, he would thrill us into submission with daring tales of piracy from the high seas. On one memorable occasion he became so despairing of our grammar that he lined us up and told us that we were about to find out the origin of the word "decimate", informing the tenth student in the line that if this were Rome, he would have been painfully killed!
Commented May 31, 2010 on Boris, Latin teachers and eccentrics.... at School Gate - Times Online - WBLG
Boris, Latin teachers and eccentrics....
Kat Brown has a guest post for School Gate today. And it's all about Latin teachers (and Boris Johnson!) "In an ideal world, Boris Johnson would be hired out to schools for the sole purpose of cheering people up. He visited my local secondary this morning, St Saviour's and St Olave's in South...
They taste fabulous! They are quite Christmassy, although it has been cold enough here in Edinburgh now to almost believe it was winter. Thankfully the sun has come out now, and the cakes are still yummy :o)
Commented May 22, 2010 on Flutterby Cakes at Spilled Notes
Flutterby Cakes
Earlier this week, I decided to bake. We didn't have much in the cupboards, and I couldn't be bothered to go shopping, so most (actually, all!) of the recipes I considered were impossible. My eye was caught by ginger and chocolate cupcakes - we didn't have the ingredients (predictably) so I ma...
I love this photo. It reminds me of a passage in Anne of Green Gables, when Anne first arrives in Avonlea and Matthew drives her through "the Avenue", lined on either side with white blossom trees. Anne decides that the avenue is not a suitably romantic enough name for such a gorgeous place, so decides to call it "the White Way of Delight".
Commented May 22, 2010 on Pink Snow at Spilled Notes
Pink Snow
Lots of blossom out in Edinburgh at the moment. This is on the edge of The Meadows, near the university library. I spent a couple of minutes in the sun (had to make the most of it - it might not be back for ages!) after picking up a pile of books on ritual theory for my next essay. Last we...
Sadly I know all to well that plums lack the ability to float, as it is usually my job to fish all the dead plums out of the pond eugh!
Commented Apr 28, 2010 on The Plum Escapade at Spilled Notes
The Plum Escapade
A little while ago, I needed to get a glass of water and a plum from the kitchen to the bedroom. Now, you might think that was simple, but no. Our flat has heavy fire doors that close by themselves, so you always have to have one hand free to open them. The logical thing to do was probably to ...
Soon they'll be queueing in the streets for organic broccoli. And then what? Anarchy!
Commented Apr 19, 2010 on Quick! Sugar Snap Shortage! at Spilled Notes
Quick! Sugar Snap Shortage!
Apparently the cloud of ash caused by the eruption of Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull is having serious consequences. Yes, the supply of exotic goods such as mangetout, sugar snap peas and some fruit has been affected, but supermarkets are trying to 'downplay the risk of serious shortages'. ...
If life were anything like a Richard Curtis film, in a few months you would be passing a massive billboard advertising his debut tour!
Commented Apr 12, 2010 on The Amazing Hare Krishna Guitar Maestro at Spilled Notes
The Amazing Hare Krishna Guitar Maestro
If you've ever visited Edinburgh and walked through Hunter Square or up Nicolson Street, you've probably heard the busking Hare Krishna monk. Now, before Christmas he used to have an acoustic guitar and only seemed to know two chords. A few months ago, however, his playing was a lot louder. An...
That looks like a delectable indulgence :o)
Commented Mar 28, 2010 on Indulgences at Spilled Notes
Indulgences
I don't indulge myself much. I don't spend lots of money on myself, don't go on expensive holidays, or go out much. No, my indulgences tend to be little things that make the moment brighter and make me smile when I've had a bad day. Like a bath with something from Lush (partly to disguise the...
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Just wait until I write about our Dartmouth adventure, you get lots of mentions in that! :o) xx
Commented May 14, 2009 on The price of a good monkey at The dish ran away with the spoon
The price of a good monkey
For several months now, every time I have ventured over to Bruntsfield, I have gazed longingly in the window of The Owl and the Pussycat at a beautiful, brown toy monkey. He's probably about the same size as a human baby with lovely soft mohair fur, a slight smile and large inquisitive bro...
I can sympathise as when I returned home to Edinburgh after Christmas, the entire road was cordoned off with plastic barriers and there was a massive trench running from one end of the road to the other. Thankfully they didn't work during the night though otherwise I might have had a breakdown!
Commented Mar 6, 2009 on Roadworks at Cornflower
Roadworks
Local readers will be all too aware that Edinburgh is being comprehensively dug up just now. Roads are closed, buses diverted, chaos rules, and it's pretty much true - as in the famous Irish saying - that no matter where you want to go, 'you can't get there from here'! We have it on ou...
What a great idea! Please may I have a letter too? I need something creative to do to take my mind off being envious of everyone else's snow!
Commented Feb 6, 2009 on Today's post is brought to you by the letter 'D' at Cornflower
Today's post is brought to you by the letter 'D'
Dogs Desk (of power) Debussy Daffodils Deborah Devonshire Dew Damp weather, i.e. rain Delphinium blue Dreaming (The picture - click to enlarge - is A Very Happy Dream by Kate Greenaway). Diaries This is from Natalie's blog: you ask in the comments for a letter and then y...
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