Here are five things I’m hoping to do before the stroke of midnight. Dance to the song of 2015 that made my heart skip a beat when I first heard it. Cook the naughtiest thing I drooled over on the internet this year. Choose a favourite photo taken in 2015, print it out and put it in a frame. Drop off those things I’ve been meaning to give away at the local charity shop. Pick a new muse for 2016. As a new year awaits just around the corner, I thought I’d round up some stories I posted in 2015 to help you find some inspiration for a new year’s resolution…
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For smashing stereotypes
The Surfing Girls of Iran
The Queen that Worked at Macy’s
The Grandmothers Graffiti Gang
Going Back to Basics
Two Strangers, One Year of Postcards sharing the Hidden Patterns of their Lives
The Lost French Castle that’s taking 25 Years to Re-Build
The Floating Straw Islands of Uros: An Ancient Tribe Surviving in a Tourist Hub
Finding Paradise Lost
The Forgotten Houseboat Hotels of Kashmir
The Moonhole Mansion: An Abandoned Crusoe Dream
The Hippie Caves of Matala that housed Joni Mitchell
A reason to meet your quirky neighbour in 2016
There’s an Incredible Collection of Classic Cars Hiding Away in a Brooklyn Garage
A Hidden Island Treasure of Lost Antique Machines
Keeping up with a Time-Travelling Victorian Couple
Fitness & Health inspiration
The Grandma who went for a Walk Alone through 14 States
The Chinese Village of Long-Haired Rapunzels
The Reindeer Riders
Doing Something Crazy you can tell the Grandkids
The Victorian Daredevil Dame who threw herself off the Niagara Falls in a Barrel
Elvis Presley’s Legendary Midnight Sandwich Run on his Private Jet
Surfing in Munich
Living like an Icon
Summering in the Seventies with Andy Warhol
20 People Not giving a Damn about the Red Carpet at Cannes
Inside Ernest Hemingway’s Private Photo Album & Scrapbook
Lessons on being a Badass
Hollywood’s Original “Bad Girl”: The Tragic Muse of Kurt Cobain
The Forgotten Bohemian Queen of the Paris Art World: Leonor Fini
Meet Brad Pitt’s Tattooist and Lana Del Rey’s Muse
Giving something old a second chance
Helping Nature Re-decorate the Abandoned Homes of Detroit
Documenting Africa’s Old Cinemas
Won’t Someone Save this Scandalously Forgotten Chateau?
Never stop dancing to the beat of your own drum
The Anti-Nazi Teen Gang that Beat Up Hitler Youth and Danced to Jazz.
Tango on the Seine, for Strangers in Paris
The Lost Broadway Musical Starring Muhammad Ali
See in 2016 dear reader!
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