over-ture:

Alps from Over Italy (by Chris Halford)

(via zxiahco)

this is a couple weeks ago, when the ivy on the east wall of my house started to bud. when my family moved into the house we hacked it all down, but we never uprooted it. it’d grow every year, and i’d rip it off. two or three years ago we started letting it grow again, and now it’s taken over almost the entire wall.

on an architectural note, my house was built in 1959. c: pre-insulation, concrete block basement, semi-detached bungalow with a very ineffective party wall. my old neighbours used to play spanish music in the middle of the night. it was owned by world war ii veteran who served as a pilot in the royal canadian airforce. i used to have his pin, but i misplaced it somewhere.

sticky toffee pudding

i made spanish paella today. it’s probably not authentic, but it’s damn good.