on danish pastries and good deeds

This rambly thought started when I was walking past a local café a few weeks ago, a café that does the most amazing, mouth-watering home made danish pastries ever. I was on my way home from a place where I’d … Continue reading →

my hero

The fairy tales don’t begin to… They tell of a great hero rescuing the damsel in distress, but not in the way my real rescue happened. My true hero – my true hero did the unimaginable for me. To most … Continue reading →

I love the written word. Here’s why I also <3💜💙💕 emoji ☺

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I’m a middle-aged woman who loves writing and who takes great pedantic joy in proofreading. I cringe badly when I see a misplaced apostrophe, or a your instead of you’re. But when I hear some of my fellow pedantic word … Continue reading →

Ok, so about that manifesto

So, this whole Google manifesto thing – my thoughts, for what they’re worth, not expecting to change anyone’s mind but just to state my own point of view, as a woman, and as, well, me… So, let’s start with making … Continue reading →

It’s not about the victims

Thinking aloud about murder, adultery, and victimless crimes I was reading about the capture of Mosul and how one Iraqi soldier took revenge against the Isis guy who’d been behind the murder of his family. Once captured and identified, the … Continue reading →

We now come to the part of the programme where Meirav yells at fictional characters

I’ve been watching Land Girls on Netflix and wow… (Spoiler alert, obviously) We’ve got a married man having an affair with one of the land girls, and they’re feeling oh so sorry for themselves because they – gasp – can’t … Continue reading →

“Your motivation and reward are God’s mercy and love”

I’m reading a book about living the Christian life, and this sentence just leapt out at me. It’s so exactly how it is, it’s the beautiful balance of living as a person saved by grace – I know I don’t have to … Continue reading →

Yes, I’m gifted…

…at some things. Obviously, just like all other human beings, there are some things I’m really bad at, some things I’m neither good nor bad at, and some things I’m really good at. Ask me to cut along a straight … Continue reading →

God can’t let you down? – well, actually…

I’ve heard people say this, and they mean well, but… They mean well – they say it as an encouragement, they say it to people who are struggling and they want to give them hope. But here’s the problem: if … Continue reading →

Let me tell you about the love of my life

I’m happily married but no, I didn’t mean my husband – and he knows that there’s someone I love more, he’s perfectly ok with it, in fact he encourages me to love this other guy more than I love him. … Continue reading →