This week has been a mini holiday for us, so it has been filled with Small Things to make us grateful. Here are a few of them: Going out for coffee with Andrew: we don’t do it nearly enough! We found a sweet little coffee shop in Dorking where they served us little bits of…
Author: Amy T
I am a writer, reader, adopter and teacher. I have started a new project called Feel Good Education and also write at Life Lived blog.
Arms of Grace
Did you ever have those moments as a child when you would get so upset about something that you would be inconsolable for a while? Refusing to be hugged, refusing to be talked out of your tantrum, refusing to calm down? I did, but like most children, I would always eventually ‘break’. Whether someone made…
Believe there is good in the world
Lately I’ve heard some pretty sad stories and seen some pretty sad things. People are living with real emotional pain and all the effects of trauma and loss; children are neglected and bearing loads they should not have to carry; illness steals people from our lives and injustice is rife. We want to patch up…
Small Things
It’s holiday time 🙂 Andrew and I share the same birthday week so we often book it off work. In the past we’ve been away for a bit and last year we celebrated with a great charity event run with the help of my youth group. This year, we’re off to see my Grandma later in…
Recipe: Spanish Martini
Last weekend my brother, Andy, made me one of the best cocktails I’ve had, so naturally I thought it a good idea to share the recipe with you 🙂 It was the perfect prelude to our Tapas evening, the recipes for which will probably also turn up on this blog at some point! For each…
Life Lately/Small Things
This week was my first week in my new job, and has been full of other goings on too, hence the lack of posts. I hope to get back to more regular posting as I settle in, so thank you for your patience with me 🙂 In the meantime, here are some of the Small…
How to Savour Winter not Suffer it
Winter is my least favourite season. I really struggle with the cold weather and the dark mornings and evenings (and quite often in England, afternoons too!). It can feel like a time to just shut down or hibernate, or just to ‘get through’. Lately though, I’ve been making lots of resolutions to be grateful and…
This World We Live In
On my next day off, I’m spending the day in Paris. I’m going to dress like a French girl. Maybe some flats, maybe a simple but sweet necklace, a scarf perhaps, and a spritz of the Chanel perfume Andrew’s mum gave me. Breakfast will be hot chocolate and fresh bread, followed by a stroll in the fresh…
Life Lately/Writing in Pencil/Small Things
The last few weeks have been full of uncertainty in terms of my future, which I think, on balance, has been good for me. I’m getting stuck in to the process of exploring what I might do, taking initiative and being proactive, whilst accepting that anything could happen. I’m reading a great book at the…
Small Things
What are your Small Things this week? I’ve had a tough one, but sometimes tough times can, rather mind-bogglingly, bring a fuller experience of the joys of day to day life, and that is what has happened to me this week. In days when the darkness is strong – and globally we’ve seen a lot…
Small Things/ My week so far…
My week started badly. I was in the wrong frame of mind on Monday morning, so negativity swept across my day like a hurricane. It’s destructive, letting yourself travel down the road of despondency. My New Year’s Resolutions – things like ‘see God’s goodness’, ‘keep hopeful’, ‘be thankful’ – seemed to be slipping away as I…
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