"Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it." – Mary Oliver

  • 101 Things in 1001 Days: 100-Day Check-in

    I started my 101 Things list on September 11th this year. It’s my way of making sure I’m not falling into rut and keep welcoming all the little (and big)…

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  • Good Things Friday

    G had a cold last weekend so he missed out on all the good things … and was not too happy about it. While I was out partying, he stayed…

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  • List #2: Highlights from our trip away

    As most of you probably know, I recently spent a month overseas. I thought it might be fun to gather all the best moments from our trip into one list.

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  • Tenderheart Cook #14 and #15

    Cooking my way through the Tenderheart Cookbook. Both these cooks happened before we went overseas. Celery Leaf Soup We got a half piece of celery in our veggie box and it…

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  • Good Things Friday

    MY birthday It was my birthday this week, and along with that came the obligatory eating. My Dad rang me up last Friday “I’m ringing for your Mum, she wants…

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  • List #1: My favourite ways to eat leftovers

    If you read my 101 list carefully (don’t worry if you didn’t) you may have noticed #5—50 lists blog project. This is the first entry. So leftovers, some people love…

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  • October’s Books

    I didn’t finish any books in November with all our travel but here’s the books I read in October The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays – Wendell Berry…

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  • Good Things Friday

    I know NaBloPoMo is finished but it’s Friday and I just had to do a good things post. TRAVEL … AND COMING HOME If you’ve been reading my blog, you’ll…

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  • Dachau – Sat Nov 26th

    We had to be in Munich to catch our flights home so we decided to arrive a day earlier to fit in a trip to Dachau. E was probably the…

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  • In The Garden – November 2023

    It’s now the 30th of November here, so the end of NaBloPoMo. I just checked my number of posts for November and there are twenty-seven, this post makes twenty-eight and…

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