moments in my day

Letter to the young girl at the gym

January 28, 2013

Dear young girl at the gym last week, It’s been a month since I joined our gym, after my doctor had looked at me sternly when I’d confessed to not getting much more exercise than the twenty minute walk into town (sometimes, when it’s not raining or snowing or far too cold – so rarely [...]

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2012 on the blog

December 27, 2012

A year is a long time and a lot of words… In January I chose BRAVE as my one word for the year. Then I started as I meant to go on, buying a red dress. I committed to a year of simple hospitality and I launched the new design for my blog. In February, [...]

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on a forgotten winter solstice

December 23, 2012

Yesterday was Winter Solstice, a fact I only remembered late in the day, over dinner, when my mother-in-law mentioned it to someone and my intermediate Danish caught the comment. I had half-thought I would “celebrate” the Solstice this year, in my own way. So my intitial feeling was one of disappointment. I’d missed it. It [...]

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liebster blog

November 29, 2012

The lovely Amanda has tagged me in the Liebster Blog awards. The idea is to award great blogs with smaller readerships so that we can spread the word about our little spaces on the webs. Yey for small! Small is beautiful! Amanda gave me four questions to answer, so here goes… 1. What is your [...]

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Stay

November 16, 2012

Stay calm. I know you are out of touch, dear woman, with this busy-ness and it’s taken you a bit by surprise after the many months of waiting and pushing and wondering. Just stay calm. Being busy does not need to mean being stressed. And you can find joy in this rush and bustle. Stay [...]

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weekend snapshot

September 24, 2012

We celebrated the Autumn Equinox with a feast of curry on Friday night at our local Indian restaurant, an early morning train ride to Germany, a 32km ride along the river to Trier for an all-you-can eat breakfast (complete with German beer) and then home for a gentle afternoon preparing food our second equinox feast [...]

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thankful tuesday

September 4, 2012

“Counting one thousand gifts means counting the hard things as gifts — otherwise I’ve miscounted.” – Ann Voskamp I read this line back in February, and it has stuck with me since then. There’s been so many weeks that it’s been easy to be thankful, easy to find words of gratitude, easy to count the [...]

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keep me from self-pity

September 3, 2012

I’m in a sad mood as I gather the bowls, tie the flour-stained apron behind my back. There’s no obvious reason to be. I slept in blissfully long this morning, woke to sunshine and my husband’s kisses. We made eggs for breakfast, cycled to the second hand store to check their stock, stopped at the [...]

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sleeping under the stars

August 21, 2012

I have a lot of ideas. I have new ideas every minute. New plans of what to do, what to eat, where to go. Rasmus jokes that I only need to see or hear a place name and I’m all “oooh we should go to Egypt/Thailand/Norway”. But, maybe like many of you, most of my [...]

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stretch

August 17, 2012

This little piece of rubber doesn’t look like much to begin with, a dark indistinguishable colour, odd shape. It’s been lying by itself in the drawer for a long time, dropped in there alongside a few rubber bands, a spare button to a piece of clothing that wore out years ago already, a nearly dried [...]

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