my left arm feels like someone punched me reeeeeally hard. I got my typhoid jab this morning from my lovely English doctor and have had that weird sensation ever since that I’ve been lying on my arm. You know that sinking feeling when you wake up lying on your front with both your arms underneath…
As much as I love to cook and bake, I find it really hard to motivate myself to get out the pans and bowls if it’s just for me. Partly because I detest washing up with a passion. Partly because I do not want to eat a whole tray full of brownies. Ok, maybe I…
Yesterday i bought flights to Dhaka, Bangladesh I am going on a work trip for nine days to visit health, education and development projects that work with people with disabilities and people living with leprosy I am very excited and nervous my first time in Asia!! I leave two weeks tomorrow…
My former flatmate (for three years she put up with me in the same building) and knitter-extroadinaire, Ellie, wrote one of those lists of 25 things about yourself, which are currently the craze all over facebook and the blogosphere. (I’m not writing one because I want to remain mysterious…) This is what she wrote… 9….
I had big plans tonight for pancakes – something fun and full of chatter and laughter like last year – and it didn’t really come to fruition. Most of my girlfriends here were busy or decided not to come. Which is fine (gosh I hate that word). In the end, just one good friend came…
In the flower shop clutching two pots of just-sprouting bulbs… Shop assistant: Are these a gift? Me: No Shop assistant: Aah, you need a little corner of spring in your home! Me: Desperately! (photo from here)