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…
Category: Lifestyle
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…
A few ideas for the Inevitable New Year Healthy Eating Stint…
Like many people, I will be trying to follow up the feasting of Christmas time with a healthier January. Here are some of my go-to healthier recipes that will hopefully keep me on the straight and narrow. (I’m not a nutrition expert – these are just the things that I’ll be doing, as a food…
New Year’s Resolutions when you really don’t know what the year will hold
My sister and I love the ‘what’re your New Year’s Resolutions?’ discussions on New Year’s Eve, and as I wrote here, I’ve tended to be a big fan of looking ahead and giving ourselves goals and hopes. I really buy into it. This year, though, I have found it hard to come up with anything…
2014
How would you describe 2014? For me, it was a year of two halves, one of change and growth. During the first 6 months, I finished my job in Buckinghamshire without really reducing the pace of life and work at all, had a lot of fun with friends and family with dog walks and trips to London and meals…
Small Things
After a week of festivities, there is no better time to share a Small Things post. Here are some of the things I’m thankful for this week… *Walks in the crisp air and bright blue sky, when the frost stayed on the ground all morning and crunched under our feet. *Spotting wildlife, like deer leaping…
Life Lived 