Feel Good Friday – 30 November 2012

Three things that have put a big smile on my face this week: The look on my kids' faces when our number was drawn during a school raffle...one whole kilo of delicious Danish marcipan chocolates for us to feast on with the whole family come Christmas Eve! Guess who gets to pick first?  DS12! After… Continue reading Feel Good Friday – 30 November 2012

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

Feel Good Friday – 2 November 2012

Three things that have put a smile on my face this week: Getting ready - the Flylady way, 15 minutes at a time - for visitors.  A dear friend (and former colleague from the EC Court of Justice in Luxembourg) from the Basque country and his wife.  Can't wait to see them!  Table is almost set… Continue reading Feel Good Friday – 2 November 2012

Feel Good Friday – 27 April 2012

Three things that have put a big smile on my face this week: Finding a duck sitting in our front garden on Sunday evening!  DD10 gave it bread and water (which it gobbled up) but the next day the duck was gone.  We're wondering if it was the same one who came to visit us two years ago with her ducklings...… Continue reading Feel Good Friday – 27 April 2012

Feel Good Friday – 20 April 2012

Three things that have put a big smile on my face this week: I still have WhoMadeWho playing at full volume inside my head, six days after the concert! Read all about the concert over at my 'crazy Danes' blog dailydenmark.com 'Surfing' at our local science museum Experimentarium with my brother and his family of five.  Everyone fell of their… Continue reading Feel Good Friday – 20 April 2012

Feel Good Friday – 13 April 2012

. Ooooooooo, it's Friday the 13th!  Not to worry - I'm not superstitious... [she typed, throwing salt over her left shoulder] Let's get on and find three things that made me smile this week: Getting ready to welcome my brother and his family of five. Thanks to my Flylady routines the house is clean and clutter… Continue reading Feel Good Friday – 13 April 2012

Feel Good Friday – 23 March 2012

Three things that brought a smile to my face this week: DD10's face when she opened her birthday presents and spied the Enid Blyton "St Clares" boxset that was on her wishlist... Taking DS12 to the gala première of The Hunger Games film.  He's read the books from front to back and back to front (first in English,… Continue reading Feel Good Friday – 23 March 2012

Feel Good Friday – 9 March 2012

Three things that have put a big smile on my face this week: Spotting this educational journal at the Danish library.  I know I shouldn't laugh.  But I can't help it.  (By the way, 'BUM' or Børne- og ungdoms-litteratur magasinet stands for Child and Youth Literature Magazine) Baking a spur of the moment batch of… Continue reading Feel Good Friday – 9 March 2012