This morning, one of my best friends was coming around for a morning of long conversation, so I did what any respectful part-Scottish woman would do and whipped up a batch of scones. Scones are one of my favourite things to bake. I think they were probably one of the first things my mum taught…
Last week they had drained the fountain and delivered the cabin pieces. Today, they’ve erected the base of the ice rink and the light fixture for the middle of it, put up all the market cabins and are erecting the cafe… Only two weeks until the market open and it is officially declared Christmas!
Yesterday morning, I met up with three girlfriends and we drove out of the city to Vieux-Genappe, a village I’d never heard of in the Belgian countryside by Waterloo. Our destination was La Ferme du Hameau du Roy, a small farm with an amazing bakery and a small cafe. It was a grey, miserable day…
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…