How has everyone's Easter been? I got two Easter Eggs- one amazing Hotel Chocolat one and one HUGE Cadbury's one so we have quality & quantity covered ( Read more... )

I am finding September challenging in many ways. The whole back into termtime activities coupled with work continuing to be crazy busy with the prospect of it only really getting MORE busy steadily over the next... well I was going to say few months but probably the better part of a year ( Read more... )

Spent all afternoon clearing out our Girlguiding cupboard and desperately trying to squeeze as much as possible into a space about a quarter of the size... quite a lot had to go and a fair amount has ended up split between houses but we got everything out. I then went and covered evensong (greeting tourists in a welcoming but shushing kind of a way ( Read more... )

This week is not being a great week. I mean the Rainbows were lovely and sanity saving as always (don't tell them that) and choir was good but basically this week has involved both a wake up call as to exactly how much work I have to do... well last week ideally and then added some more work on top of it and yesterday I actually reached that point ( Read more... )

Just in time for the first of October (it's been a bit of a day... though it finished with coming 6th in a quiz where our stated aim was the top half of the quiz and there were 22 teams!) ANYWAY reading this month has largely been Chinese... but also my introduction to the incredible Italo Calvino.

• A Dream of Red Mansions (volume 2) - Cao Xueqin & ( Read more... )