Anyone who has ever learned a foreign language will find certain aspects of the learned language amusing. Perhaps it's the concept of gender applied to inanimate objects - why is a table feminine? But one of the weirdest things I've seen is that the French words for 70, 80 and 90 are sixty-ten, four-twenties and… Continue reading Four twenties ten (19.2021)
Author: michellekstone
Australian-born London-dweller. I love books, travel, my garden, my cat, my husband and sunshine but not necessarily in that order.
4am
It's 4am and I'm awake. I'm awake a lot at 4am these days. Is it my bladder, my hormones, my body digesting my dinner? (I knew that eating so late would have a bad effect.) I could use this time as thinking time, but my thoughts are racing around and around - not so much… Continue reading 4am
Hell in a tall hat (18.2021)
Any week I don't get my post out an a Sunday I feel disappointed in myself. Especially when I didn't spend Sunday engaged in anything else more important - unless jigsaw making and gardening and reading count as more important? Actually gardening felt quite important as the spring weeds have also sprung and are growing… Continue reading Hell in a tall hat (18.2021)
Local art work
I saw this art by Adam Jacobs in the window of a local gallery and loved it, so wanted to share. I am young I love being young I love Yungblud I am still young I love Angus Young I love Neil Young I love Paul Young I am young at ♡ I miss being… Continue reading Local art work
Long week, long weekend (17.2021)
I am starting Couch to 5K from the beginning again and I am surprised how difficult it is to run for only 60 seconds with 90 seconds of break in between I’m several days behind on my writing plan this week. Have I set myself too ambitious a target? Should I reduce my target to… Continue reading Long week, long weekend (17.2021)
16.2021
What is going on in that nursery rhyme, "As I was going to St Ives..." As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Each wife had seven sacks, Each sack had seven cats, Each cat had seven kits: Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were there going to… Continue reading 16.2021
The big reopening (15.2021)
While countries across Europe are looking like into lockdown again, here in the UK we have reached a milestone in reopening - pubs and shops and hairdressers and gyms are now open for customers. Except pubs (and restaurants and cafes) are only open for custom in outside spaces. And yoga studios can't open because that… Continue reading The big reopening (15.2021)
Locked in, Locked out, Lucked out (14.2021)
I start this week's post with a tale of locks on a bridge in Bakewell. Maybe I don't have a romantic soul (although I'm pretty sure I do) but I don't understand the point of putting locks on a bridge. Most bridges aren't particularly romantic places (industrial architecture, traffic just two things spoiling the ambiance… Continue reading Locked in, Locked out, Lucked out (14.2021)
Spring, sprung, Easter (13.21)
It’s been a good news week this week - I had a follow up blood test after the gloomy results from December and my results came back much improved - all my hard work with healthy eating has paid off - sugar level and cholesterol are both down just from increasing my fruit and vegetable… Continue reading Spring, sprung, Easter (13.21)
Travel A to Z – Z
Congratulations for anyone who's made it with me all the way to the end. It was fun when it started but now we're at Z, I can admit there have been times when this has felt like a hard slog. Zadar and Zagreb, Croatia: Yes I'm going to combine two cities from the one country… Continue reading Travel A to Z – Z
