This week’s ‘Small Things’ post comprises a thank you list… Thank you for… *Cocktails in a Teapot* Meeting for cocktails on a Monday night is a very civilised, relaxing affair. A relatively uncrowded bar; a friendly, unburdened ‘moment’ before the demands of the week. We started our Monday evening at All Bar One in Leicester…
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This week…
Pictures from this week… Christmas Baubles made by our youth group Ready to go out for a Christmas party As usual, a Jamie picture 🙂 Audrey Hepburn, who’s been inspiring my sister and I this week. Image found via google images. Links from this week… Book recommendations from 2013 Views on women’s body image Pretty snow…
A few words on Christmas…
This week I deleted my draft Christmas posts, which I promised a week or two ago. I found that I just couldn’t bring myself to add to the plethora of Christmas ideas that are surrounding us at every corner – TV, magazines, online, in the shops… To be honest I find it all rather dizzying….
Refreshers
I was reading the book of Philemon in the Bible today. It’s a letter sent by a preacher called Paul to his friends, and the personal first few sentences are brimming with warmth and inspiration. Some of the ways he addresses his friends include: *’dear friend’ *’fellow worker’ *’brother’ *’sister’ *’fellow soldier’ *’partners in the…
Small Things :-)
My ‘Small Things’ posts are about those little things that have brightened my week 🙂 This week, I’ve been: Listening to: Melaena Cadiz, who I heard about through Tomboy Style. Amazing voice! Watching: Monsters University – sooo funny 🙂 Also, a little randomly, I caught a programme on brown bears in Alaska. There was stunning…
Like living in a desert
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…
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…
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