Don’t they say travelling helps to get a fresh perspective on things? We came back yesterday from the most perfect bank holiday weekend trip to Norwich, the higher purpose of which was to look at my future alma mater, but the result of the experience was that real enjoyment awaited for us at every corner, […]
Not usually a fan of New Year Resolutions, I nevertheless made some promises to myself, amongst them – blogging more. A few things have happened in my life since I last posted reviews and updates on my running (which is just not happening at the moment, but I’ve accepted that’s fine). One of them is […]
When I woke up to the news of war in Ukraine on the 24th of February, the sun was shining here in London, or it seems like it was. We were just past another storm, and it took time to understand. Has it been just four days? It feels like so much longer. Every piece […]
I guess I should consider myself lucky for catching Covid only now, December 2021. There are many factors that speak for luck: it’s not the first variant and we know much more about the virus now; I have received two shots of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, so this breakthrough Covid has good chances of being mild; I […]
I swear this wasn’t on purpose. Not the set up – obviously I arranged the bananas to form a little musaceous mountain around the book, but the number of bananas present has creeped up on me over the last few weeks, in no way inspired by Pirate’s Banana Breakfasts, but merely related to the Vegetable […]
I am running again. It feels different. I am more respectful of my body, trying to be in tune, to listen. I follow the rules and ask people who know better for advice. But the biggest change is that instead of feeling proud of myself for getting out there to run, I am grateful for […]
As Zadie Smith admits in the part of this book named That Crafty Feeling where she shares her writing experiences and advice, she was never a macro planner
What to do if your books get infested by insects sharing your tastes in literature?