things I like

ten books I will never ever get rid of

July 6, 2012

Sarah Bessey is doing a fun “ten books a day for a week” series, sharing her favourite books in seven different categories. I thought I’d join in the fun, being a big reader myself, but slimming my list down to just ten. So here it is: ten books I will never ever get rid of. [...]

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giving my full attention

April 27, 2012

I’m re-reading the book Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. It is one of the most beautiful books I have ever read. I inherited it from a friend who could not get into it, didn’t like it. I say that so you won’t run out and get it based on my recommendation and then wonder what the [...]

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book give away…

March 27, 2012

This amazing print is from Sara Seal of Candy Coated Universe. Yesterday, our new bookshelf finally arrived (three weeks longer than estimated delivery time) and the piles of books that were hiding humongous dust balls in the corner now have a new home where we can actually SEE them. We’ve already discovered books we forgot [...]

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friday favourites

February 3, 2012

A few of my current favourites… Listening to Florence and the Machine Watching Forbydelsen, or The Killing as anyone with BBC will know it is. This Danish crime series has me hooked, and pleading with great panic to watch another episode if the one we’re on finishes on too great a cliffhanger for my fragile [...]

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The girl’s guide to web design

January 25, 2012

I just had to take a moment to shout my praise for the course I took last year that made the possibility of me coding my own website possible… The Girl’s Guide to Web Design is an eight week course by Amanda from Better than Chocolate Web Design. The course provides you all the knowledge [...]

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Friday favourites: things to send in the post

January 6, 2012

I have an immense love of handwritten letters, cards and postcards. As grateful as I am, especially now, for all the many instant ways I have to connect with friends and family, there is just nothing quite like the feeling of opening the postbox and discovering between the bills and flyers for pizza delivery, a [...]

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Ben and the Sea

November 15, 2011

Today’s post is a little plug for my friend Ben. He just released the first part of his debut album A Life Outside. I may be biased but I do think his songs are some of the best I have heard in a long long time. The sound is beautiful, the lyrics are thoughtful… they’re [...]

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Pilates

November 8, 2011

I do not particularly look forward to exercising. I try to make myself do it semi-regularly because I know it’s good for me, I like feeling healthy rather than lethargic, and it can, occassionally –  like that run in Denmark last month when the sun was coming up over mist-laden fields – be quite enjoyable. [...]

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How to be a Woman

November 6, 2011

In the same weekend as Caitlin Moran took home the prize for “Non-Fiction” at the Galaxy National Book Awards, APW organised a book club meet-up for its readers across the globe on her fantastic book How to be a Woman. A Practical Wedding is the only “wedding blog” I still read daily. It’s a group [...]

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friday favourites # 7 – baby baptism gifts

October 28, 2011

We gave my niece a very traditional baptism present at the weekend: a book of bible stories for children. Oh and a Donald Duck soft toy because everyone needs Donald Duck in their life from an early age. (Did you know his name is Anders And in Danish?) Her farmor and farfar (paternal grandparents) gave her a beautiful art print of [...]

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