Since Marissa was doing all the cooking for thanksgiving, I took my “hostess” duties very seriously and spent a good hour making the table look pretty. We have so much purple from the wedding, in the form of leftover decorations and wedding gifts. So I decided the colour theme would be purple and white/cream. I…
Yesterday, 11th November, was a public holiday here in Belgium. Am I the only one who gets all the names of these holidays mixed up? I mean, I knew that yesterday was about remembering those who died in war. But all the public holidays seem to have long names beginning with “A” and I kept…
Last Friday we went to a Real Ones gig at the Ancienne Belgique venue here in Brussels. I’d not even heard of them until about a month ago but my friend Laura had a ticket and forwarded me the link and after spending half an hour on their myspace page clicking through the songs, we…
The shouts of complaint at my blogging silence are becoming louder and louder. This week is the first in about a month that I have had not been travelling somewhere… back to the UK for the wedding, to Stockholm for the European Development Days, to the UK again for the general assembly of the NGO…
We got home tonight and cooked a delicious dinner of pork medallions with courgette salsa and roasted celeriac. With a glass of wine from our “wine cellar” of course. And after a quick tutorial on public speaking (I am leading the call to worship at church tomorrow night) my handsome fiancee dressed up in his…
I know, I know, I am getting lazy again with this here blog. The honest truth is that my life is not full of interesting things to blog about. I mean there’s the wedding plans, but most of that is boring discussions about who still hasn’t rsvp-ed and where to buy purple napkins from. Actually,…