Spoils From My Trip

Additions to my CD collection

Whenever I go back to the UK, I always have a 'mental shopping 

list' - things we either can't get here or are too expensive

to buy in Italy. Last week's trip was no exception, but

I had the added bonus of having belated Christmas & 

birthday pressies to pack in my suitcase for my return home.

Apart from my Boots No 7 moisturiser, Efalex tablets &

Brabantia bin bags - essentials I find it hard to live without -

the things I love to buy most are books & CDs.

Luckily, I had a pile of books sitting at Dad's

that had been too heavy for me to bring back with

all the other Christmas pressies last December, so 

I only bought one book & that wasn't until I

was at Stansted awaiting my return flight.

Most of my spending was on CDs: 5 of

them, all at once, something I've never 

done before. And I played all of them on

my first day back home - ALL of them.

A day without music is a day without sunshine

as far as I'm concerned.

And my choices? Birdy - Fire Within;

Goldfrapp - Tales of Us; Ellie Goulding - Halcyon Days;

Kodaline - In A Perfect World; 

UB40 - Getting Over The Storm.

Yes, I know there's a Lykke Li 2 CD set in the photo -

that's my belated birthday pressie from my Dad &

I'm playing Youth Novels as I type this blog post.

I haven't been disappointed with any of them - I LOVE

great music.

More for the bookcase

And the pile of books? A couple of 'chick lit' novels from

my favourites, Adele Parks & Marian Keyes; Hilary Mantel's 

Bring Up The Bodies and Emma Donoghue's The Sealed Letter.

I am currently reading my airport buy - Jane Green's

Tempting Fate - 150 pages read in just a couple of hours

on the beach yesterday afternoon, so I'll probably finish it

this afternoon.