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….
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…
My Grandpa is going in to hospital for a hip operation on Monday. All of his twelve grandchildren live far away from him (he lives up in the middle of the Scottish Highlands!) but we’re planning to bombard him with cards and letters and small gifts to remind him that we love him and are…
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…
Now that I spend most of my day at home studying (aside from all the coffees and lunches and brunches with my girlfriends of course) I am wishing for a lovely new desk. We have a beautiful dining table that I could work on but it’s the furthest point in the flat from any heating…
Oddly, I have found myself thinking about Christmas already this week. I think it’s because when we said goodbye to my family on Sunday afternoon, it was “see you at Christmas!” Our families live a long way apart so we’ve been alternating Christmasses and Easters with them, and this Christmas we’ll be in Oxfordshire with…