Scottish Lunch

What do you do when you’re seven and a half months pregnant? Host a lunch for six of your favourite girlfriends and cook four courses… Hmm. I might not recommend it as normal practise but it was a lot of fun, even if I could have slept for three days afterwards! I have this wonderful…

right now – April 2014

April is probably my favourite month. There’s my birthday, Rasmus’ birthday, the trees are exploding, just exploding with blossom, and so often Easter falls in April too. Oh and this was a month to remember for so many reasons. And it was hard too, with my man away for long work trips (the deal is…

Coming out of Hiding

We sunk into the sofas in the lounge in the pause between evening prayers and dinner – the delicious smell already drifting down the hallway from the kitchen towards us – and watched the light fade from the sky outside, the darkness approaching steadily from the North Sea to the east. He was not who’d…

Learning to love this [pregnant] body

Ooh, will you take a picture of me here? I asked my sister, handing her my phone. We were on a girlie weekend away together and were in Bath for the day. It was gloriously sunny, just a little of that March nip in the air still, and we were wandering the romantic streets of…

What is Heard in the Silence

On the second night of my retreat, I freaked out. I was in a beautiful converted farm on the top of the hill, looking out over the North Sea five miles to the east. I joined in the community rhythm of Celtic prayer four times a day and sat down with them for meals together…