I know I've been a bit absent but ahead of the first Christmas Day I won't be having lunch at home (because my sister & her husband are hosting) here are a few of the silly, small things that always make me smile on Christmas Eve ( Read more... )

I'm sorry I've been entirely absent this Advent. Life has been a little hectic (though that's not exactly new) and in between work & running about like crazy I've been hibernating a little. I'm much more active on twitter (something about the shortness makes it feel less pressured) so if you are on twitter & not friends with me I'm @especiallysarah ( Read more... )

Hmmm I hoped to post my review of last year's theatre tonight so it was before my first theatre of 2017 (Saint Joan tomorrow <3) but life (tiredness and one last opportunity to light all the candles and Christmas lights and read some GK Chesterton) intervened ( Read more... )

Happy New Year everyone :-)

Full look back at my year in books to come but December was a pretty good month for reading even if some of the books were really quite short *g*

• League of Dragons - Naomi Novik
  
• Drowned Worlds - Jonathan Strahan (ed)
  
• The Circle - Dave Eggers
  
• Little Book of Advent - Canon Arthur Howells
  
• The Secret Christmas: An Anthology ( Read more... )

So we're nearly at the end of 2016 which is obviously an arbitrary marker in an indifferent universe BUT...

( Cut for sadness )

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Two evenings of Lessons and Carols done, one as a server and the other in the congregation. They were glorious as always, last night J (aged 8) did one of the readings so perfectly I got quite choked up ♥

Tonight after the service my sister, seiyaharris & I went to a nearby pub and drank Pear & Plum Mulled Cider which was delicious AND as an added bonus ( Read more... )

Well posting every day rather fell apart didn't it? This weekend + has been incredibly busy so let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up...

On Friday I worked a half day (in my Christmas jumper which is a reindeer complete with antlers on the hood <3) and then headed into London for the National Theatre Quiz which was marvellous as ( Read more... )

The problem with lovely weekends away is that you come back and suddenly it's Monday tomorrow /o ( Read more... )

A story of my descent into the depths in three pictures...


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