Today I am cheating and linking to some existing posts because a) they are AWESOME and b) I am super busy right now. So without further ado, I give you the The 30 Best Places To Be If You Love Books, the Best Fictional Libraries in Pop Culture and the The 20 Most Beautiful Bookstores in the World. If I was … Continue reading
The Northern Lights are miraculously beautiful and horrifyingly difficult to do justice to in words. So, rather than suffering in the attempt, I am going to share some stunning photographs of them instead. Enjoy!
Mondays are commonly accepted as the most depressing day of the week – countless songs have sung of it*, countless tweets have moaned of it, the Queen has even officially declared it** – so I have decided to create a blog series to help sufferers deal with this dreaded day. Today I am sharing a video that will … Continue reading
Paper retreating before a flame, edges singed into dark ash, curling away in fear-filled flight.
Charity ~ “kindness and tolerance in judging others”. If I were a Medieval knight this would be emblazoned on my shield as my family creed and motto to live or die by. As this is not the case, I try to follow it in a more prosaic and less-sword-wielding way. Sometimes I fail. Of the … Continue reading
After starting this blog and hastily publishing my first post* (The hardest kind of charity), I noticed that there appeared to be another entry entitled “Hello World”. This is what it said: “Welcome to WordPress.com! This is your very first post. Click the Edit link to modify or delete it, or start a new post. If you … Continue reading
Eating across the North/South divide
Home Decorating & DIY Tutorials
Figuring out how to love life
Finding neat, sweet and unusual items in junk and charity shops, online and everywhere else inbetween
Books and nonsense...
How molecules make the world go round
Life in watercolour 