The Sunday Currently: Girl Next Shore vol 3

Last year, my buddy Alex convinced me to live below the line for five days with the aim of raising awareness for extreme hunger and poverty, as well as funds for our respective charities. You can read all about last year’s journey here. This year, I’ve signed up to live below the line again to raise funds for Child Hope – and I start tomorrow. Thankfully we don’t have any client events lined up so I won’t be Sorry Sally drinking water while everyone boozed and schmoozed. 

I managed to get decent stuff last year but this time around I had to recalibrate my shopping list ten times over. Because even with the rate of inflation being relatively flat this year, prices of basic commodities have still gone up… and so the underprivileged majority still have close to nothing. Such injustice.

On to this Sunday.

READING
Time 100 2015. I wanted to get the hard copy with Bradley Cooper or Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the cover, but could only find the one with Kanye. Boohoo, me.

WRITING
The first post for my Live Below The Line Challenge.

LISTENING
This version of my favourite MGMT track:

All along the eastern shore
Put your circuits in the sea
This is what the world is for
Making electricity
You can feel it in your mind
Oh you can do it all the time
Plug it in and change the world
You are my electric girl


THINKING
of how to spend the last six days of my holiday allocation for the year.

SMELLING
Kusmi Tea BB Detox brew. My loose leaf pot is made with green tea, maté, rooibos, guarana, dandelion, and grapefruit. Gutted I won’t be able to drink this next week.

WISHING
I had more holiday left. I’ve spent a month of my annual leave allocation this year already (mainly due to the wedding) so I’ve only got six days left to play with for the rest of the year.

HOPING
By doing this Live Below The Line challenge for the second time, to raise awareness for how the underprivileged majority live.

WEARING
A bright yellow tank top and a striped skirt. Some bruises have decided to pop around my legs and I hope they’d vanish when strip-season finally arrives in the UK.

LOVING
…the feeling of understanding the industry more, and the camaraderie between peers.
…my new FORLIFE TeaLeaf tea mug and infuser. Perfect for my Kusmi BB Detox.

WANTING
Kopapa‘s avocado, goat cheese and chilli on toast, followed by two helpings of their mango, banana, jicama dairy-free smoothie.

NEEDING
Kopapa‘s avocado, goat cheese and chilli on toast, followed by two helpings of their mango, banana, jicama dairy-free smoothie.

FEELING
Ready for the next five days.

CLICKING
Ten Thousandth Spoon and Sherose Ontimare, whose photos look so freakishly editorial all the time.
Give them a follow, interesting real people.