cuuuute...

Just found this lipstick while browsing the internet and must admit I have fallen in love with it. Utterly useless as I would never dare to use it...and too expensive (16,50£) to get it in order to simply look at it every now and then. Still cute and worth posting...I think

www.asos.co.uk

lusting for...

www.boots.com

www.boots.com

www.boots.com

www.boots.com

www.asos.co.uk

www.asos.co.uk

Really don’t know how we have plenty of everything and still manage to crave new things on a reguar basis. At the moment I’m obsessed with those nice things:

Daisy Perfume by Marc Jacobs

Rita Perfume by Benefit

Coralista Blush by Benefit

Steamcream by Steamcream (I guess ;-) – love those cute collector tins!)

And one of those bags from asos , don’t know which one yet but will properly order one of them soon...for the rest I will check the Duty Free Shop next week and see what mood I’m in then. Who knows, maybe I changed my mind till then.

Entre les murs

A few weeks ago while working through stuff I recorded on the sky box I found this film ("The Class" in English) and as I was in a "let's listen to some French"-mood I watched it. What shall I say, I was absolutely fascinated and it left me in a very thoughtful mood for quite a while.

The film is set in a Parisian suburb and follows one class of teenagers through the school year. You see all the problems their teachers have to face on a daily basis, you get insides in the different opinions and strategies the teachers have and see some up's and down's of the pupils. Sometimes it leaves you completely shocked and angry, in other moments it is rather funny and even touchy.

What surprised me the most was that although filmed in a documentary style it is not a documentary but a casted film. The main actor (who plays the teacher) wrote the book though and is/was a teacher in "real" life. I'm not normally someone overly interested in teaching methods and social problems (sounds bad, I know, but that's the way it is) but French films about education definitely seem to do it for me. The stunning and beautiful documentary "Etrre et avoir" is one of my favourite films from the last years.

A wonderful film that is always convincing and opens up your eyes to the problems in everyday school lives nowadays. 

 

www.splatterwelt.ch

birthdays and superstition

www.olemax.de

What I noticed a while ago is that in England nobody seems to care too much to congratulate someone on his/her birthday on the exact date!

I don't see myself as overly superstitious but in this case I am and this habit can make me really furious.

If my birthday e.g. was on a monday then here I could happily have a party on the saturday before as it's more convinient. Unbelievable for me and I hope not only for me. If someone wishes me happy birthday too early I somehow assume that now the chances for desaster to happen are very high and I won't make it till then any more...and if only to prove my point ;-)

Hate it!

PS: And I will come up with a positive fact about the UK again soon I promise...this never was supposed to be one of those "What Brits do wrong" lists!

Milk...

Whenever I look out of the window I seem to see people who walk home after being out to buy some milk. No matter what time, no matter where we stop at a service station, people stop to buy milk. If I would have to guess what is the most popular item in stores in the UK I would guess: milk. (It’s a bit of the British equivalent to seeing people in Paris with their baguettes).

Why do Brits use so much of it? So much that they even still have their own milk delivery service every morning! Is it just me not using enough? Is it really only because they drink it in their tea and coffee? Do they really drink THAT much tea to need milk bottles the size of family packs of fabric softener? I like that the milk comes in those plastic bottles here cause you can easily open and shut it again (not like the German cartons which make a mess every time). But I will never have the use for more than roughly a pint each week.

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Timetravelling...

...on the Bluebell railway

Free nail polish!!!

British drugstore Boots has a great deal on at the moment  (not sure if only at the airport though as that’s where I saw it):

When you buy two small bottles of diet coke you get a regular size bottle of nail polish from Nails Inc. For free. There are 4 colours to chose from, a jeans blue, a beige, a light pink and a blueish red. I did see it, liked it but didn’t need any drinks (was about to set off for one of my long London days and didn’t fancy carrying a litre -at least to start if- of coke with me...and fancied even less the idea of having to search for public toilets every 15min*smile).

A few hours later my husband called me and told me about a special deal Boots where doing, I knew exactly what he was referring to! He picked a colour and asked me which would be my favourite. Tricky question, of course I knew which one I would have chosen but I didn’t wanted to disappoint him either. So I answered truthfully: the blue one. And guess what!? That’s the one my clever husband had picked! Probably just a coincidence but made me happy nevertheless :-)

www.nailsinc.com

PS: And last shift he got me the beige one as well , the little things that make me happy