Musings :: Moments :: Memories
The River Blavet in Morbihan, Brittany, France. Our family spent many holidays in this part of the world. We would often come for walks by the Blavet and enjoy crèpes in the picturesque village of Saint-Nicholas-des-Eaux. In 2018, my family enjoyed a boat ride on the river with my parents and brother during a holiday… Continue reading A Favourite Place
One of my 25 things for 2025 was to get myself a dressing table and organise the drawer. After a trip to Ikea, we set up this Malm dressing table which is perfect as it is quite shallow but it has a big drawer for all the makeup and skin care bits. Also not pictured… Continue reading My New Dressing Table
We were bracing ourselves for a terrible stormy day but, in fact, the storm missed us completely. So instead, we had a sunny day which was surprisingly calm. I spent the day trying to relax - doctor's orders - but I still found myself pottering about. After walking the dog, I managed to sit down… Continue reading Sleepy Saturday
Big Sur, California, USA Rich and I drove down the Pacific Highway from San Fransisco to Los Angeles in 2007. This was the view from the yurt we stayed in at the Treebones Resort which overlooked the Pacific, complete with nighttime sea lion serenades!
Here are just some of the books I want to read this year: Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros - the third in the Emypyrean series. Very excited about this one and I will be doing a buddy read which will mainly mean lots of texting while reading! Beloved by Toni Morrison - I know I… Continue reading Ten Books for 2025
Following on from my post yesterday about creating characters, I thought I would share the characters that I had listed for the weriting exercise. These are all favourites but I especially made my choices based on the charaacter I am creating for my new story. In other words, there are many more characters that I… Continue reading Ten Favourite Characters
As part of the writing course I am currently doing, we had to look at building well-rounded characters. The first task asked us to list 5-10 characters we loved with a few words explaining why. Then, we had to write for 15 minutes, looking at specific prompts, including an external provocation as well as an… Continue reading Writing characters
Invitation by Mary Oliver Oh do you have timeto lingerfor just a little whileout of your busy and very important dayfor the goldfinchesthat have gatheredin a field of thistles for a musical battle,to see who can singthe highest note,or the lowest, or the most expressive of mirth,or the most tender?Their strong, blunt beaksdrink the air… Continue reading Poem of the Month
Evelina chose her GCSE options today and submitted them online. She still has until 30 January to do this but I think she was keen to remove the weight of the decision. We had her parents's evening on Thursday and I think helped her make the final decision. When both her language teachers (French and… Continue reading Decisions
Yesterday Evelina got braces fitted. It has felt like years of waiting and then it came around all of a sudden. She was so brave. Austin's football team played so well together, passing brilliantly and really looking all round fantastic. Such a shame that they lost anyway - luck was certainly not on their side!… Continue reading Around here
Notes From My Day 