Recent pleasures.

Listening to:

A Hard Days Night, Hey Jude: The Beatles

Five Guys Walk Into A Bar: The Faces

Nina Simone The Best Of: Nina Simone

Sotto Falso Neme: Ludovico Einaudi

Greatest Hits: Fleetwood Mac

Reading:

A Perfect Life, Rafaella Barker.

Moab Is My Washpot, Stephen Fry.

The 72 Names of God: Technology for the Soul by Berg, Yehuda.

Most recent pleasures:

Chesnuts being sold in green grocers.

The sound of leaves crunching beneath my feet.

Having to wrap up warm.

The Golden Age of Couture exhibition at the V & A museum.

Wearing mens T-shirts.

Sophie Dahls cover for Vogue this month.

Going to the cinema on my own.

Tom Fords Black Orchid.

Discovering just how beautiful Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campell, and Kate Moss really are in the flesh.

Wanting:

To go on holiday somewhere hot, with alot of books.

To be able to drive again.

A wardrobe full of couture.

To go to Paris.

Gucci sunglasses.

My phones battery life to last longer.

To have been alive in the Seventies.

A normal man to walk into my life.

Valentino to continue designing for another fifty years.

To be a 1940's siren.

A white Christmas.

Looking forward to:

Being able to dress normally. It's one of lifes cruel misfortunes that pain must substitute style - I am enjoying wearing mens T-shirts though.

Being bothered to wear make-up again.

Being bothered to wear nail varnish again.

Seeing Jools Holland in concert.

Being able to drink wine again.

Going to Paris.

Having Hugh Grants children.

Driving a Ferrari Scuderia.

The Spice Girls reunion tour ending.

Christmas.

The Snowman being on TV.

Fighting about politics on Boxing Day.

Open fires.