Monday List of Awesome

Hello again my lovelies. I'm writing this on a horrible Sunday night - the weather is DISGUSTING. I am cold! It's "summer" - hooray! Here is a list of awesomeness for you. Enjoy! xx

via Daily Pep Talks from a Best Friend

♥ I found this cat rather entertaining. I watched him a bunch, and laughed every time. Seven seconds of Cheer Up!

♥ The Thrifty Chick has a list of 10 Thrifty Blues Busters for all your January Troubles, which are super good.

♥ How amazing does The Human Planet look? Can't hardly wait to watch it! Love me a BBC doco series.

♥ Z-Type is a Flash game that allows you to feel really, really smug about your touch typing abilities.

♥ So slow on the uptake here but: Katherine Chloe Cahoon gives some of the most bizarre dating advice I've ever seen, I just about died laughing while watching her. I "found" her when I was reading this item on the Hairpin about unintentional comedy (which is an interesting enough concept in itself).

♥ Throwing potted handmade dildoes and merkins over the fence was considered "bad manners" during medieval times.

♥ Gala Darling raved about Catherine Baba. She's fabulous! It's inspirational seeing someone who is so OTT. I think I would like to get back into dress ups some more... Also, HER BICYCLE.

Charles Bradley "The World (Is Going Up In Flames)" - Feat. Menahan Street Band from Daptone Records on Vimeo.

♥ Gretchen Rubin has food for thought about help-rejecters and help-rejecting complainers. Of which I am periodically both.

♥ People dancing! By the way, you should dance now. GO ON. DO IT. Get up and get your groove thing on.

♥ An old list by Doe Deere: 11 Ways to Go Green and Save Money. It's all fairly self explanatory but it's good to have a reminder every now and then, non?

♥ In a similar vein is Love Food Hate Waste, which as well as having some pretty hilarious images of people who look like food (Potato Dude and Fish Girl are two of my faves) also has some great ideas about how to prevent food waste. It's a fabulous site!

♥ Early Autochrome/colour  prints for you to look at: Paris before the Great War, America in the post-Depression to WWII period, Russia a century ago.

♥ The Case of the Missing Cigarettes is an illustrated essay on Iconic Photos about the way that cigarettes have been removed retrospectively from historical photographs. Verrrrry interesting.

Annnnnnnnd that's all I got! Have a fabulous Monday my darlings; if you're in Wellington, enjoy your day off! I plan to enjoy mine. xxx