Hello.

My name is Cassie and I am seventeen.

I collect love heart sweets: you can change the messages if you scratch them, you just need a pin. I like foreign packaging on snack foods. And Japanese toys. When I was little I used to make sculptures out of my mashed potato, like, a snowman with peas for eyes. I don't think I've grown up. I think some biscuits are like lego blocks. Rich teas have to be stacked in fours. I like symmetry.

I like holding my baby brother, Reuben. He has this way of looking at me and I know he understands exactly what's going on. He's a baby genius. A chubby baby genius. I reckon Reuben will be very successful when he grows up. Possibly even Prime Minister. And he'll have a really gorgeous Scandanavian wife. And I'll be jealous of their children because they'll be bilingual.

I like David Bowie - space odditty, wow. The Cure. Bright Eyes, Death Cab for Cutie, Emmy The Great, Joanna Newsom (she sounds like an elf, she plays the harp. She's the closest to magical a human can be). Hot Chip (for dancing dancing dancing!)

My favourite book is Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto. It's beautiful. It's about being lost but it's not all bleak. It makes me cry.