February

• Going to London Edge trade show and meeting all the brands that I use to wear when I was a teen.
• Snow day – building snowmen, snowball fights with the neighbours and having the most magical day ever.
• Going to the Album Chart Show and seeing Lilly Allen.
• Winning a tea party for four at Betty Blythe tearoom.
• Tom’s parents coming to visit in funny hats.
• Breakfasts at Jaime Oliver’s Fifteen.
• Valentine’s day on Hampstead Heath.
• Having had the best Grandad in the world.
• Making funnel cakes with my Nana for pancake day.
• Being in Scotland with my family.

March

• CO+K on BritneySpears.com
• Walking along Regents Canal and discovering the wonders of Primrose Hill.
• Miss Lecroc painting my handbag.
• Watching Pushing Daisies, such an awesome show.
• Getting a 24″ iMac.
• Andrew & Laura coming to visit from Dundee.
• Hot sake bubble baths.
• Eating and making macaroons.
• Discovering Mr Warwick Avenue and his wonderful positive thinking signs at the tube station.
• Pretending to be tourists and travelling around LDN on a Routemaster.
• Meeting real life Texan Hawlie at DIS’s not-going-to-SXSW-party.
• Being interviewed for Strawberry Anarchy.
• Phil’s crossstitch night at the Make Lounge.
• Blue Mondays at Yo Sushi! with Tony.
• Hanging out in Holland Park.
• Making tequila cupcakes and legal party drugs for Venus Zine.
• Collaborating with the Stitch & Craft show.
• Snippets 14 & interviewing Brini Maxwell, Frightened Rabbit, Miss Lecroc & professional organizer, Jennifer Ford Berry.

• Purikura at Finchley Road.
• Avoiding the London riots by sitting on top of Hampstead Heath.
• New haircut from new favorite hairdressers, Taylor Taylor.
• Previewing the new collection and being given pearly queen earrings at the Tatty Devine press day.
• Going to see Hundred Reasons (which made me feel like a teenager again) and giving Colin a hug.
• Discovering amazing views of North London from the Peter Jones cafe.
• Starbucks paying Tom to keep a coffee diary for the month.
• Louise coming to visit before flying off to Korea.
• Getting a Tatty Devine lollipop necklace as an Easter present from Tom.
• Interviewing Princess Superstar.
• Discovering how lovely Highgate is – the cemetery and teashop High Tea.
• Going to see PJ Harvey at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire.
• Learning how to do 1950′s hair, makeup and make fascinators at PinUp girl bootcamp and meeting the lovely Lena & Beau.
• Tom making me my dream starlet mirror using bits from Ikea.

May

• My Canadian uncle Bruce coming to stay.
• Getting a pair of Vivienne Westwood Melissa shoes.
• My parents coming to visit and having adventures.
• Joining the Camden Pirate Club & boating in Hyde Park.
• Cute baby animals everywhere.
• The canal boat light parade at Little Venice.
• Working with ThreadBanger.
• Getting to go to BBC Television centre.
• Sitting in the audience for You Have Been Watching.
• Being sent a box full of tools to play with from Fiskars.
• Dim Sum in Chinatown.
• Seeing our neighbour King Charles play a gig and interviewing him for CO+K.
• Going to Great Escape festival in Brighton as delegates for DiS.
• Gambling and winning big in the coin machines.
• Hanging out with and being bought milkshakes by Ben Kweller.
• Lynsey moving down to London.
• Going to see a read-through of a new sitcom with Adam Buxton & Iain Lee.
• Hanging out with Clare & Jo.
• Going to see the Manics at the Roundhouse in Camden.
• Going to Legoland.
• Bumping in to our old Edinburgh friends and going to see their new band, The Mars Patrol.
• Grant & Hannah visiting.
• Going to see The Yeah You’s with Dermot O’Leary at the BBC Maida Vale studios.
• Taking my parents to Brighton and treating them to a birthday dinner at Jamie’s Italian.

June

• My F***** Up, Naturally article for Venus Zine.
• Eating mussels in Belgo.
• Smoking shisha pipes with my uncle in Camden.
• Furnishing the Mews with tube line fabric furniture.
• Going to see Spunky’s band Jesus H Foxx at The Fly bar.
• Sitting in the audience for 8 Out Of 10 Cats & meeting James from The Apprentice.
• Vinnie’s Tampon Cases making a special CO+K period chart.
• Eating sweets and getting drunk in the shoe shop for the Irregular Choice party & chatting to Polly Scattergood.
• Working with Sublime Stitching.
• Snippets 15, the Summer Holiday issue with Princess Superstar, Betty Blythe, Vinnie’s Tampon Cases & Mystic Medusa.
• Treating Tom to his sparkly blue Squire Supersonic Guitar.
• Meeting the bully from The Inbetweeners, who’s friends with our neighbours.
• Hanging out & star spotting at the Hawley Arms.
• Being a Crafty Superstar on CO+K.
• Stopping a thieving carny from stealing Tom’s iPhone at a steam fairground.
• Eating macaroons from Laduree.
• Standing at the front of a tube train.
• Hanging out with Lynsey and co. flatmates in Ealing.
• Going to see The Thermals at Cargo.
• My Front Room Festival Guide for Drowned In Sound.
• Picnicking in the park with Clare.
• Sitting in the audience for the radio program the Now Show.
• Getting sent a gorgeous cigar box bag from Ori-Janel.
• Seeing Peaches at Tatty Devine.
• Going to a dragon festival with Lynsey.
• Meeting the best neighbours in the world, Raven & Emma.

July

• Girly nights in with Raven & Emma.
• Going to see Charlie Brooker’s TV show You Have Been Watching and Tony getting picked on for looking like an “emo Hitler”.
• Alice Dellal screaming “bed wetting” while recording a song at the neighbours.
• Sale shopping at Vivienne Westwood.
• Vegetarian BBQ’s at the Mews.
• Giving Clare her personalised wax seal for her birthday.
• Nights out at blues bars with the gang.
• Discovering Hummingbird Bakery and them posting a recipe on CO+K.
• Beating Tom bowling at Bloomsbury Lanes.
• CO+K sponsoring Roll Britannia, rollerderby tournament at Earls Court.
• Interviewing the awesome Gala Darling.
• Taking a boat trip up the canals with Tom’s parents.
• Lynsey’s gin party in Ealing.
• Awesome Vietnamese food at Raven’s favorite restaurant.
• The Ballad Of... magazine launch party.
• Snippets 16, The Vintage & Retro issue with Gala, Polly Scattergood and Irregular Choice.
• Getting awesome costume photographs from our costume designer neighbour.
• Growing chilli plants.

August

• Cupcakes, Cocktails & Crossstitch with Phil.
• DIS Field Day after party.
• Start a patchwork quilt for the bed.
• Winning tickets to Sonsisphere festival and laughing at Fred Durst.
• Awesome breakfasts at Plan 9.
• My awesome personalised stamper & logo that Tom designed.
• Picnics with friends on Primrose Hill.
• Hanging around London town with Martyn.
• Tom’s amazing piano skills.
• Our family day out to Battersea Park with Emma.
• Having CO+K illustrator Jess Smiley do a portrait of Tom and I for his birthday.
• Treating Tom to dinner at Belgo on his birthday.
• Going to the zoo, Laduree, Hummingbird and the cinema for my birthday.
• Jenny sending lots of yummy and odd snacks from Japan.
• Getting a makeover at MAC.
• Having a super fun birthday party in the Mews.
• Going to see Ash play at the Good Ship.
• Getting awesome jewellery in the sale at Tatty Devine.

September

• Tom’s brother Jack coming to visit.
• Notting Hill Carnival with Emma & Raven and meeting the awesome novel writer Bernard Gallate in the queue for the portaloos.
• My parents and Canadian grandparents coming to visit and having a second birthday party with them.
• Getting my amazing new sewing & embroidery machine.
• Finding 0 longitude in Greenwich.
• Drinking tube line inspired smoothies at the London Transport Museum.
• Wendy coming to visit and showing her the sites.
• Vogue’s Fashion Night Out and getting drunk in Chanel, Burberry & Alexander McQueen (and falling in love with my dream mac).
• Going to see the Plastiscines at Proud in Camden.
• Clare & Jo’s leaving London party
• Having a feast of Southwark Bridge.
• Going to see Amanda Palmer and her burning piano (and also Polly Scattergood) with Snippets writer Nny, who had interviewed Amanda for us beforehand.
• Designing moquettes for the TFL competition.
• Finding BrewDog beers in Sainsbury’s.
• Going to London Fashion Week and going to see catwalk shows.
• Photographers continually asking Tom for photos in his Joey D jacket.
• Spotting Geri Halliwell, the ginger one from Girls Aloud and Joss Stone outside Vivienne Westwood’s catwalk show.
• Watching the entire two seasons of True Blood within a couple of weeks.
• Going up a skyscraper and enjoying the view on Doors Open Day.
• Going to see Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs in 3D at the iMax.
• Eating free ice cream from The Icecreamists.
• Feeding the squirrels in Holland Park.
• Going to the premier of the Craft Scotland ad campaign and having our face put on beer.
• Going to a catwalk show at Westfield.
• Creating a virtual wardrobe of all of my clothes.

October

• Getting some amazing Raven designed shoes.
• Spending a lot of time among the autumn leaves and squirrels in Holland Park.
• Snippets 17, The Horror Issue with Amanda Palmer, Girl In A Coma & Gypsy Hoops.
• Getting awesome new Snippets Moo cards.
• Meeting the lovely Andrew and failing to grab coffee at Friends cafe, Central Perk.
• Having more free ice cream from The Icecreamists.
• Meeting the lovely Sarah & Bruno at a DIS board meetup.
• Spotting two foxes playing at Little Venice.
• Having delicious curry from the Bombay Bicycle Club.
• Saving up cocktail vouchers from TimeOut and having a free expensive cocktail night out.
• Meeting the lovely Kitty La Roar and Lucky Victims at the Basement bar.
• Having drunken fun in the Trocadero.
• Raven’s awesome leaving party.
• Raven’s last night on town.
• Getting up super early to wave Raven bye at the airport
• Andrews lollipop and puppet show to cheer up Emma.
• Meeting the lovely Ben & Dave at Sarah’s housewarming party and arranging to meet up for brunch the next day.
• Having a wholesome day at the park with friends followed up with a piano singalong at the pub until closing time.
• My new CatMorley Moo postcard business cards.
• Drinking at a free BrewDog bar.
• Pancake Tuesday’s at Plan 9.
• Late birthday presents from Miquette.
• Mum coming to visit.
• Going to Kew gardens with my Mum.
• Halloween party at the Mews.

November

• Working with Cath Kidston and having her projects on CO+K.
• Bonfire night with the gang.
• Awesome cocktails at Ben & Dave’s flat.
• Hiring a lovely new publicist called Sally.
• Crossing Piccadilly Circus diagonally.
• Andrew’s birthday party in Camden.
• Coming 2nd in a pub quiz.
• CO+K signing an advertising deal with IndieClick.
• Esthetica press day at the Dorchester Hotel.
• Doily rings from Tatty Devine’s press day.
• An educational trip around the Science Museum with Emma.
• CO+K reaching 30,000 members.
• Free drinks from shops on Carnaby Street with Emma & Lyns.
• Hanging out with Jason while he was down in LDN.
• Our first CO+K press release.
• Going to see Conor Oberst’s new band Monsters Of Folk at the Troxy and him playing Bright Eyes songs.
• Meals at the Diner.
• CO+K in Bust Magazine.
• Sewing Louis Vuitton style rabbit ears for Sew Hip magazine.
• Getting drunk in the posh shops on Bond Street again with fake snow and reindeers.
• Tom getting an awesome new job at Leap Anywhere!
• CO+K in the Daily Mirror.
• Tom giving me Vivienne Westwood horns for Christmas.
• Nana & Mum coming to visit.
• London Ghost Bus tour – so awesome.
• Getting a new Macbook Pro laptop.
• Got a huge box of Green & Black chocolate bars from Tom’s office.
• Alex’s birthday night out.

December

• Tom’s Lego advent calendar complete with mermaid and pirate figurines.
• Being interviewed for Amelia’s magazine.
• The CO+K crafty advent calendar.
• Picking a massive xmas tree from Clifton nurseries and taking it home on the bus.
• Booking our flights to New York & New Orleans.
• Going to an 11.30pm of Twilight 2 and walking home from the cinema.
• Playing Jenga and eating chocolate in Tom’s new office.
• Snippets 18, the Christmas mini issue with Twinkie Chan, Plasticines, Lucky Victims and Carasan.
• Re-watching Josie & The Pussycat Dolls and remembering how awesome it was.
• Finding Tom’s wallet after he lost it in the cinema.
• The huge Santa Claus meetup at Trafalgar Square.
• Cupcakes and candy from Tiffany.
• Going to see a movie for free in the expensive premier seats at Leicester Square.
• Breakfast at Fifteen.
• Christmas haircuts from Taylor Taylor.
• Finishing my patchwork quilt.
• Tom’s boss having his moustache shaved off by Hugh Grant.
• Getting crafty and making xmas presents.
• Getting loads of clothes from Forever 21.
• Presents that come wrapped in Vivienne Westwood ribbons.
• Christmas party at the Mews, complete with homemade eggnog and ginger beer.
• Snow in the Mews.
• Emma’s plans to get us goldfish in the new year.
• Sewing social-networking and RSS cushions for Tom.
• Working on a Christmas song, although we didn’t finish it
• Christmas dinner and Winter Wonderland for Emma & Lynz.
• Tom completing his 2009 challenge of travelling to the end of every tube line in a year.
• Travelling home for Christmas to see my family.
• Playing in the snow in Scotland.
• Hanging out with Joey D in his shop, giving him mince pies and Tom getting an awesome jacket.
• Awesome Christmas presents.
• Xmas dinner 1 at Tom’s and xmas dinner 2 at my house.
• Hanging out with old friends in Dundee.
• Spending a super fun day with Jenny in Edinburgh, meeting up with more old friends and eating weird Japanese candy.
• Watching what my cat Noodles gets up to with her pet eye camera.
• New Year’s Eve with our buddies in Ealing.

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