ninetwelvetwentyfive

(better photo coming soon. promise.)

so mallory is right .. my about page is a little opaque.  i currently live in london and have done for ten years. but i am about to move back to new zealand to be with the love of my life.  the rockstar is charming, fearsomely intelligent and has the softest lips in the world.   he is worth moving half-way round the planet for, believe me.

but i have been in london a long time, and one of my slight fears is that i will miss my adopted city very, very much. a lot has happened to me in the decade i’ve been here:  i’ve travelled widely, loved immoderately, written books and taken photographs that have appeared in national newspapers.  i’ve been married and separated, happy and sad.  i’ve made some of the best friends anyone’s ever had.  i’ve had tears come to my eyes from this city’s beauty and its cruelty.  i have lived in this country nearly half my life, and it feels like home.

i worry that when i go back to new zealand, it might seem like i never left.  hence this tattoo.

the word comes from a couplet written by sir thomas more.  go where we may – rest where we will/eternal london haunts us still. when i look at the word on my wrist, it will remind me of ten magical, beautiful, heartbreaking years. and it will remind me of why i stayed but also why i left.  that even though i love it, and even though it haunts me, i left the city behind .. because what is to come will be even better.

here you are, the new glasses — two pictures, in fact.

well, what is this blog about if not narcissism, huh?   i am wearing a white vest from uniqlo and (in the top pic) a grey farhi sweater that is made of bamboo, apparently.  and the wayfauxrers.  which come from d&a, not sure of the brand i’m sorry.  feedback so far has been “elvis costello”, “trevor horn when he was in buggles” and “deadly charming” (that last one was from the rock star, which is why i love him. well, one of the reasons.)

during the meanwhilst, i ordered a big sack of pyramid studs and an awl (all awl all the time?) from ebay today.  ooh, the temptation to stud everything in sight.  stand still long enough in my presence, and you too could get the alexander wang treatment.

finally, i bring you — one of the coolest music videos evar. i mean, what?  white suits, goths on horseback, petra .. and patricia morrison.  god, i want her manicurist’s number.