Wisdom and fish

Yesterday John taught me what is probably the best thing I have ever learned in my life.
Say “beer can” out loud.
Go on, say it: “beer can”.
There, that’s how you say “bacon” with a Jamaican accent.
And now, with that wisdom imparted, here are some photos from my trip to London Aquarium a month ago.

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5 questions

Mindy-licious Mindy of Beautiful Mess is very nosey indeed and has posed me the following questions as an interview meme:
1. we all know that you’re a world traveler, but have you ever made it across the pond to the good old U.S.? if so, where did you visit? and, if not, what would [...]

A good start

We have liftoff! There are green things poking through the ground in my vegetable patch. Yes, some of them are weeds, but 23 of them are sunflower seedlings – from the sunflower seeds that I just picked out of the bird food and shoved into the ground. The first seedling took just 6 days to [...]

So, erm, yeah … the lederhosen

There I was, minding my own business (read: doing my best to listen in on a conversation in German), when a pair of lederhosen were thrust upon me. “Try them on!” … ok. I disappeared into the bathroom and fought my way into the odd garment. They were heavy and fairly unforgiving, so for a [...]

Vienna

I thought that when I went to Austria, I was just going to Salzburg, but H had other ideas and packed me off to Vienna on my second day to meet with some Powerfrauen. I’d not been to Vienna before, nor had I ever travelled on the Austrian railway, so travelling across the country for [...]

Like a bird in the sky

The amount of travelling I’ve done in the past year is somewhat unusual – especially the fact that I’ve already made two trips so far this year and we’re only into April. There will be more cosmopolitan gallavanting to the continent at some point in the summer, but I don’t know quite where or when [...]

7 Days

I can’t believe how well the 7 Days project went. It was incredible. Thank you so much to all who participated! What most impressed (and delighted) me was the way in which everyone joined in with the comment love – whether it was bonding over measuring one’s feet, commiserating over illness, or the fact that [...]