Audrey Horne

What a heartbreaker!

Desert Island Discs: a work in progress

"Desert Island Discs is a long-running BBC Radio 4 programme. It was first broadcast on 29 January 1942 and is said by the Guinness Book of Records to be the longest-running music programme in the history of radio. Guests are invited to imagine themselves cast away on a desert island, and to choose eight pieces of music, originally gramophone records, to take with them."

I am looking forward to discovering later additions to this list.

Rabbit-holes

The portals through which I have lately been trying to escape reality.

Autumn

On Friday I arrived at my desk to find more than post-its. Each desk in the department had been adorned with a little conker....made out of chocolate and marzipan! It was someone else's birthday, but we got given presents?! Maybe it is worth working after all...

Twice a day, between tram stop and destination I wade through an autumn detritus and have to restrain myself from arriving at work with a pocketful of acorns and berries. I found this little gift particularly exciting and touching. And delicious.

Having survived a tram ride home it was a little squished by the time it made it in front of the camera and into my tummy.

Understandably I spent little time on its photoshoot...by 5pm I was greatly regretting my decision to hold off eating it until after I'd shown it to my godmother.

2 weeks

My life here is equal parts Fairy Tale and Satire.

I have rather lost my taste for blogging, but I'm sure it'll boomerang back some time soon.

What transformation do you foresee for Halloween?

My inspiration:

Daily Painting: Titian

This one hangs in The Fitzwilliam Museum, a museum in Cambridge I grew up running around in (my dad considered it a good open space for toddlers to explore) so it seemed like the right choice for Titian. I really enjoy his work, but hardly any of his contemporaries'.

Rape of Lucretia (Titian and Lucretia) (1568-71) Oil on canvas

Daily Painting: Gustave Caillebotte

An obvious choice, but I had to stop agonising over which one to choose.

Les raboteurs de parquet (1875) Oil on canvas

Daily Painting: Odilon Redon

So hard to choose just one.

Muse auf Pegasus (1900) Oil on canvas