Hello, everyone! Summer has been - and is still pretty much still here weatherwise (yes, sir - thanks to the Danish weather gods, this seems to have been the best summer since I arrived here in 1998!) - but the school holidays have zipped past and my kids started back yesterday. Which means that a)… Continue reading And we're baaaack! To school!
Tag: books
Feel Good Friday – 9 November 2012
Three things that have put a big smile on my face this week: Switching off my telephone and going to bed before 10 o'clock in my nice clean, cosy bedroom (thank you, Flylady!) and reading a chapter or two of Martin Beck (a series of Swedish crime novels that I'm reading in Danish) before I… Continue reading Feel Good Friday – 9 November 2012
Impossible (Coconut) Pie
Here's a recipe which I found in the unlikeliest of places...a crime novel! (The one I mentioned in last week's Feel Good Friday post.) I'm loving Kerry Greenwood's novels and am racing through them at a speed of knots... You'll need: ½ cup plain flour 1 cup sugar 3/4 cup dessicated coconut 4 eggs vanilla (I… Continue reading Impossible (Coconut) Pie
Judging a book by its (swell, just swell) cover
I was at our local Danish library on Sunday afternoon, browsing through the English crime novels (British English before American English, according to Danish cataloging systems...). I like toread before I go to bed and I love crime novels. But not ones filled with death and despair. A bit of death is fine - it's the bleak,… Continue reading Judging a book by its (swell, just swell) cover
Oh, Jeeves!
I don't often write book reviews. Unlike Ms. Caboo. Who has set herself the herculean task of reading and reviewing 100 books this year! And shares her experiences good and bad - for your reading pleasure - on her blog,Bookalicious Babe Book Reviews :)But I have - alas - now run out of Montalbano (my swarthy, Italian… Continue reading Oh, Jeeves!
Writers block(head)
I got a book for Christmas and finished it at the weekend. A fairly run-of-the-mill 'Da Vinci Code' type of thing (which, to be honest, read more like a filmscript than a novel). Now, I know it's a work of fiction, but that doesn't mean it should contain glaring mistakes. Right? Write? ;D For the record, this photo… Continue reading Writers block(head)
Tea with your Tolstoy? :)
I've already shown you the terribly high-tech, all singing, all dancing Danish libraries where you're (literally - boom boom!) allowed to climb on the bookshelves, haven't I? If you missed that post, it's here...'Where are we?' Wednesday But the other week I popped in to another local library as they were the only branch who had a book that DS10 needed the… Continue reading Tea with your Tolstoy? 🙂
Menu plan Thursday – Letting the kids loose!
Did you have a favourite cookbook as a child? This is my one, "A Young Cook's Calendar" by Katie Stewart. It's from 1978 and cost 45p at the time! There aren't any photos in it (only drawings) but I loved reading about "walks at the weekend and tea by the fire" and "picnic food to carry to… Continue reading Menu plan Thursday – Letting the kids loose!
Five go to the cinema!
Don't know quite how I ended up with 'fives' of things I like on Fridays. Could be something to do with the Enid Blyton books? Not the infamous "Famous Five", didn't like those kids. I preferred the Enid Blyton series "The Five Finder-Outers" who were more sleuthlike. But, as usual, I digress! I'm all excited about the #FlyBabyMovieParty… Continue reading Five go to the cinema!
Don’t try this at home
I often share a recipe with you on a Saturday. Because that's the day I often try out something new. Today is no exception...though I have NO intention of making this one! 😉 As you may already know (or have read...), I looooove cookbooks. You can see a list of my favourite cookbooks in an earlier post… Continue reading Don’t try this at home
These are a few of my favourite things (Cookbooks)
Decided to make Friday a day for sharing a few of my favourite things. And - as regular readers of this blog are already aware - my mind is full of our kitchen remodel at the moment - so today's post is going to be about cookbooks 😉 I've got a shelf full of them… Continue reading These are a few of my favourite things (Cookbooks)
Love that accent!
OK, so I have a slight Scottish accent. I speak pretty fluent Danish but, of course, there's no running away from the accent - even if I wanted to... 😉 Most Danes presume I'm American - partly because I have a certain twang or lilt when I speak - but mainly because I don't speak… Continue reading Love that accent!
Don’t believe the hype
Unbeknown to me, DS9 has been reading Tolkien's "The Hobbit" at school. (To be precise, he actually read the book "Hobbitten", because he read it in Danish.) I've never read any Tolkien myself - that was something the clever, nerdy boys in my class did. So when the "Lord of the Rings" films were made,… Continue reading Don’t believe the hype
Lazy days and holidays
The school holidays are fast coming to an end - eek! The weather is still hot and balmy and today we had another trip to Bellevue (our local beach). Only 5 minutes drive from our house, but feel like I've been away for the weekend when we go there. One of the things I associate… Continue reading Lazy days and holidays