to pin or not to pin....

That was the most inventive post title I could think of.

So, I have been a little absent on this blog of late, and the biggest reason is:

Yup. Pinterest. 

I thought today I'd share some of my favourite Pinterest finds.

<3

Gorgeous vintage room :)

Mint dress

Beautiful cloak :)

Aaron Tveit & Eddie Redmayne rehearse for the Oscars

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Apparently a Vogue promo pic

With the comment: “Ya know, I don’t really think you understand how this works" -In which Gavroche and Enjolras play chess and Gavroche always wins because Enjolras keeps sacrificing his king 

The Book Thief

How? ^

(And that's just a few.....)

Anyway, that's that for now...

Tag. Again.

Evie was tagged with this tag and left it for any followers to do, so I decided to take it up!

                                    

Rules for this tag:

1.  Thank the blogger who nominated you and link back to their blog. 

2. Put the Award logo on your blog. 

3.  Answer the ten questions sent to you.

4.  Make up ten new questions for your nominees to answer. 

5.  Nominate ten blogs. 

Evie's questions:

If you were going to write a book, what would you call it and what would it be about?

Ah. Yeah, well, I've tried countless times to write a book, but have never gotten past the first few chapters. I'm not much of a writer. If I could write, it might be a Les Mis fan-fic sequel.....called....something. I dunno.

                                   

What’s one of the scariest things you’ve ever done?
That's a hard one. I haven't done many scary things in my lifetime. I really don't know. The scariest thing would probably be performing a skit in front of 200+ plus, which isn't that scary, really. 

If someone were to make a movie about your life, who would you hope would play you?

I'm not that particular as long as whoever it was looked like me and understood me and what I'm like. :)

What’s one of your favorite questions to ask new friends or to get a conversation going?
Have you heard of Les Miserables? Um, well, I might ask that, but I don't really know. Maybe "Do you like reading?" or some other such question relevant to who the person is or where we are.

If you could learn one random skill, what would you learn?
Knowing how to ride a unicycle would be cool.

Or one-handed clapping. :)

                                                    

                                                                              Just 'cos.

                                                                                 Yeah.

                                                    

Anyway...

Are you an introvert or an extrovert?

Somewhere in the middle, but more introvert.

Have you ever taken a personality test? (How did the results turn out?)

Only movie ones, in which I have been Lizzy Bennet and Aragorn, and I don't know who else.

Just a random pic there.

What’s your favorite part about today so far?

Ringing my BFF, because it's her birthday today! :)

Who in your life has influenced you the most? How did they do it?
My parents. For bringing me up and teaching me (almost) everything I know. (But then, they taught me to read, which then taught me most of everything else I know!) And they still are :)
                                                 

What’s your favorite joke?

I don't really know if I have a favourite joke, to be honest. I always get stuck when asked for a joke. 

But I like text-jokes, especially Les Mis ones.

Yeah, anyway....

Here are my questions:

1. When did you start blogging?

2. What's your current favourite song/piece of music?

3. Favourite movie?

4. What's the last book you read?

5. What are the two things on the top of your bucket list?

6.Who's your favourite child actor/movie character?

7.What's your favourite quote?

8.If you could spend two months in any country, where would it be?

9. If you could play any character in a musical, who would it be?

10. Would you rather go for a bike ride in the rain or a run when it's really hot?

I'll tag whoever sees this post and wants to do it!

So, anyway, signing off now.

I'll just add, if you have any ideas for future posts, questions, etc, please let me know in the comments!

Happy Barricade Day!

It's Barricade Day! (I named it that - more or less)

Today is the 6th of June. (The date of this post will say the 5th, but where I live it is actually the 6th).
The anniversary of the June Rebellion

in France, told of in Les Miserables. (If you like history, or just this topic in general, check out the wikipedia page on it here. There are links in that article to Victor Hugo, General Lamarque....(on an extra side note, they also have articles on the ABC and Enjolras, Gavroche, Jean Valjean.... - I was inpressed!))

Anyway, 183 years ago today, the June Rebellion took place in Paris, France.

If you go by the Les Miserables calendar, yesterday was Lamarque Day (also my own naming), 

the day of Lamarque's funeral and the beginning of the rebellion (Do You Hear the People Sing and Night of Anguish)

Today is Barricade Day (Dawn of Anguish, The Final Battle, etc.)

(Have you SEEN this gif?!^ *chills*)

Anyway, I am resolved not to post any more depressing pictures, but instead, I've decided to give you some links you might find interesting, of some great Les Mis articles and posts you might like to read, if you're in that sort of mood, like I am.

I will now add in random Mis-related pictures as I go.

Pictures: 

Sink Me!'s Les Mis label

People Articles:

Enjolras

Jean Valjean

Cosette

Marius

Javert

for any others, follow respective links in the Les Miserables article

Blog Posts:

Defending Enjolras

Defending Grantaire

That Really Long Post About Enjolras

In fact, pretty much any of Amy's Les Mis posts

Symptoms of Mizziness, one of my personal favourites, especially if you go for the humorous sort of thing

                     

Videos:

Polish Flashmob - yes, it's in Polish, but it's still great!

Green Fields of France

and any number of movie trailers, best scenes, musical performances......

Anyway, I'm off - happy Barricade Day!

                                              

Yes, I just felt like adding this one again.

Quick catch-up

Hello again! Yes, it's been a while (it always is), but I thought I'd pop in and let you all know what I've been up to over the last month or so :).

Reading (because I always am)

Nothing much new, actually.
After seeing the movie Hugo, I came across the book at the library.

Despite being really thick, the book isn't actually that long, because a lot of it is illustration - part of the story is told in comic, like the the silent black-and-white moving pictures the book talks about.

One of the gorgeous illustrations - this one is two full pages!

The movie is pretty good, and averagely accurate, as movie adaptations go. And I quite like the character Isabelle....

Can't get the silly thing to centre!

I have also been working on a few other books......I haven't been doing much reading at the moment, but I'm still working on several at once.

Watching

-Hugo (as mentioned above)

-Death Comes to Pemberley

Well, first of all, this movie made me shudder. (But then again, maybe that was just because it was a murder mystery)

The characters were okay, but I felt they just weren't Austen characters.

The Colonel Fitzwilliam bothered me, but not because he wasn't as nice as Austen's character (well, as well as that), but because I recognized him....he is also in Pride & Prejudice, as Chamberlayne.

Can't find a picture, but he's the one who apologizes to Lizzy at the Netherfield Ball for not being able to dance with "both her sisters, at once, if he could-"

Yes, anyway, in general, I found it okay, not Austen, but still intriguing.

- Cinderella!!

It was one of those girly movies full of gorgeousness and pretty dresses! I loved it! The story was well preserved and traditional, not ruined at all. 

The fairy god-mother (Helena Bonham Carter)  had to be one of my favourite characters!

Plus, Lesgle was in it! (Stuart Neal, that is) He was a stable-boy. Not that I saw him. I just saw it in the credits.

Also, last night I saw the first episode of the new series "Our Zoo"

....starring Gustave from Ever After.

Ugh, there is a deplorable lack of pictures of him.

Yes, anyway, that was quite neat, I'm looking forward to the next one.

Anticipating

~Masked. I am super excited about it!

~Our two-week family holiday coming up in two weeks' time, followed by a weekend Queen's Birthday youth camp (!)

Anyway, gotta go now...

Just a quick note, I'm considering doing a questions/answers post if I get enough questions, so feel free to ask in the comments! Also, please feel free to leave any post suggestions in the comments :)