Did you watch the news today? I caught half of a report on Syria. I saw empty streets, with deserted homes – a ghost town. Almost all the people were gone. A woman stayed because her son had died there. She said ‘I’ll stay here ’till I die, too’. A man said there is ‘no…
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.
Saturday
Saturday was a good day. Walking Jamie and next door dog Nelly under very moody, sun-and-thunder kind of skies, shopping, Pizza Express, a warm fire, a magazine, Castle, and Dr Who. It doesn’t really get much better 🙂 OK, so there was also a fair amount of stressiness (on my part), work (largely racking my…
Small Things
I realised this week that I’ve inadvertently* copied someone with my Small Things lists of verbs. Turns out Tania at Joy Felicity Jane has been doing the verb lists for ages! But as her blog is so lovely, and Freya and Rosie at my two favourite blogs have also done verb lists recently, I figure…
Things I found in my desk…
*LOTS of hair clips and hair bands, lip glosses and lipsticks *Various broken/run out/no-lidded pens *A selection of prayers written by members of my school club (7-8 year olds) and youth group (11-14 year olds). So honest and sweet, and sometimes a little heart-wrenching. *Various postcards, including this one, which is my personal favourite: *Photos…
On Learning to Play the Violin
I am learning to play the violin. When I was younger, I started to learn it at school. The main things I remember about this are: *Being really excited to play ‘Greensleeves’ because I was a geeky little thing and obsessed with the Tudors. *Having to play the song from the Hovis advert with the…
Blue Sky, Autumn Colours and a Happy Dog
I managed to slot in a muddy mid-morning dog walk today and Jamie and I both appreciated the blue sky and bright Autumn golds we found, especially in contrast to the rain, rain, rain of yesterday! Since then, I’ve been working hard, so it was really nice to take a break just now and read…
Home
Last month I posted a series of pieces on ‘Home’ by various people around the UK. Everyone had different views but one thing was abundantly clear – it is important to have a place to call home among people you can be at home with. Today, there are thousands of people who have had their…
A Box of Goodness
I mentioned last week that we’ve been getting the Abel & Cole veg boxes. It’s always interesting to see what we get in these and figure out what to do with the various vegetables. It’s amazing the range of meals you can get from one box. This week we had an appropriately seasonal combination of…
Small Things :-)
In busy weeks, it can be easy to miss the ‘small things’ that cheer us up – so it’s great to have the opportunity to think back and record them here! * There being fewer leaves on the trees has one advantage – you can spot all the birds better 🙂 I’ve been enjoying watching…
On my mind this week…
War. And the fact that in our country, it won’t be long before those who can tell us about the World Wars first-hand are gone. Tomorrow I am interviewing someone for a video we are making to use on Sunday, and in our preparation chat today I was so struck by the fact that it…
Flying away
Feeling a bit low is a tricky thing to navigate. It’s easy to feel guilty and to fill your mind with ‘I should’s. I should feel happy. I should appreciate more. I should be thankful. Today, I feel a bit low. I went on wordlive.org to read a bit of the Bible, thinking it would…
Small Things
My ‘Small Things’ posts are about the little things that have made me smile during the week. This week, I’ve been: Listening to: Robbie Williams’ Swing When You’re Winning – I’m waiting for his next Swing album which is out this month! I really like the orchestral accompaniment to I Will Talk and Hollywood will Listen,…
Life Lived 