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…
Category: Lifestyle
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…
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,…
A few links for you to enjoy…
This week has been half term. Which means that although I’ve not been officially off work, I have done a lot of what I call ‘pottering’ (apologies there for the ‘what I call’ Miranda moment!). So… filing, browsing the Internet, housework, browsing the Internet, sorting, browsing the Internet, reading, admin, eating and drinking have very…
This week…
…Has been a very full week! There has been so much I wanted to post about, so I’m going to try to bring it all together in one post. I’ve been watching: The final episode of Educating Yorkshire, and if you haven’t seen it you HAVE to watch it! It tells the story of a…
Hello, my name is Amy.
Hello, my name is Amy. I am not a Superwoman. My house is a mess most of the time, except for when I have visitors in which case piles are hastily shut in cupboards and plates are shoved in the dishwasher. I am not fat, but I am on the wobblier end of a Size…
Home
For the final post in my series on *home*, I have two pieces that are incredibly similar, from two people who don’t know each other… First, Steve Painting (who happens to be my Dad!) writes on the importance of relationships and faith in a life of fairly temporary physical homes. 12 years ago a friend…
Home
As you’ve probably read, I’ve been collecting views on *home* lately (look out for the final post later this week!) It’s been so thought-provoking hearing what people think. Today, I discovered a beautiful blog called Searching for Tomorrow, and on it, a lovely post about a holiday in France. It caught my attention for obvious…
Life Lived 