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Loves, delights, aspirations and inspirations - video projectors, instant mash and frozen peas, new nice homes, canvas bags, 1950s ceramics, old childrens books, antique junk, anything polka dot, anything striped, cotton dresses, vintage boots, coral and duckegg blue, Rockwell typeface, Alan Fletcher, Adobe Illustrator, the layout of The Guardian, the cobbled streets of Copenhagen, pickled herring for breakfast, expensive design books, Hamburg habour, politeness, Victorian clipart and fonts, my ipod working, Westminster bridge, coats with narrow shoulders, big dogs, brooches, tea with milk and sugar, drilling as it is the only DIY thing I am actually good at, fountain pens, Penguin bookcovers circa 1964, mens perfume, oranges, Rocky films, sit down dinners, Parliament Hill, fresh mown grass, warm pebbles on Brighton beach, mix tapes, pretty wrapping paper, my nan's smell, sleep, goats' cheese, pay cheques, white record players, Katie Mitchell's plays, Mauerpark, the existence of kitsch, pop music, baking bread, spring, pickled gherkins, vintage fabric, Miami's faded pastels, walks on Riverbank, the National Theatre, weeping willows, Ricard, white walls, Hamburger Hip Hop, interior magazines, microwave porridge, printed tea towels, Georgian architecture, going printing, German films, being thirty, ranunculus, beergardens in Berlin, Timorous Beasties, my mum's taste, costume drama on TV, Lebkuchen, Tunnock's Teacakes, falling in and out of love within five minutes, friends who just know .................................... Dislikes, disappointments and the ugly truth - capers, working freaking long hours, council estates next to gorgeous houses, anything with coconut in it, being so quiet most of the time, kitsch being terribly common nowadays, heat, metal/hard rock, handbags with goldchains, a very particular rosy shade of pink, not having my things around me, red carnations, not being a student anymore, being so vague with everything, not having enough time, runny eggs, cuddly toys, never being in one place for very long, being thirty, dark carpets and wood laminated floors, my bum, scented candles, public sculpture, Bryan Ferry modeling for M&S, new haircuts, pointy shoes, smoked salmon, the smell of Kebab shops, black and red, saying random things when drunk, curly kale