on holiday

Hi friends, Sorry for the radio silence this week. Rasmus and I are in Denmark, visiting friends and celebrating Easter with family. I naively thought I’d be able to find time to blog but have been having far too much fun to get online for longer than two minutes. We’re driving back to Luxembourg on…

Mothering Sunday and Bretzelsonnden

Dear UK readers: please view this as your three day warning that this coming Sunday is Mothering Sunday! Arrange appropriate gift/card/flowers now. You can thank me later. Everyone else: relax. You’ve got a few weeks longer before worrying about being disinherited for forgetting… This Sunday is a double celebration day. Yes, for all British children,…

Happy Monday

It’s going to be a good week. I can feel it. Life here is picking up speed. There is more to do, more people to meet, more to tick off the to do list. It’s good, this getting speeding up, because I don’t think I was built for slow. I love to be doing, to…

the practise of lifelong parenting

When Sarah Bessey announced she was going to host a Practises of Parenting Blog Carnival on her blog I was excited and disappointed, because I love her posts on her practises of mothering that she does to help her enjoy being a mother now, but I’m not a mother, so none of my ideas have…

conquering babel: learning danish

  I’ve got a guest post up at my friend Claire’s language blog Conquering BabelĀ about my experience of learning Danish over the last two and half years. So if you’re interested in hearing about why I decided to tackle this language when Rasmus speaks fluent English and I’m not even living in Denmark, head over…