The extraordinary happens every day… One night, George Duncan — decent man, a good man — is woken by a noise in his garden. Impossibly, a great white crane has tumbled to earth, shot through its wing by an arrow. Unexpectedly moved, George helps the bird, and from the moment he watches it fly off, […]
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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is top ten characters I would want with me on a deserted island, and it took me a looong time to come up with ten characters. You see, I think ten people is quite a lot to have with you in such […]
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In a dark vision of the near future, twelve boys and twelve girls are forces to appear in a live TV show called The Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed. When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps forward to take her sister’s place in the games, she sees it as a death […]
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I just got home from my grandparents, where we had a lovely barbecue with some family. Now I’m just in time to post week 10 of my happy days challenge! This week had some very hot days, so I didn’t do all that much, except hang out with friends and trying to stay cool (which wasn’t […]
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I’m a nervous person. Always have been, and probably always will. If I have to do something I have never done before — something new and unknown — I’ll get myself all worked up about it. I think of all the things that could go wrong and lose the ability to look beyond that worst case […]
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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Wow, this is the second time in a row that I’m a day late with my Top Ten Tuesday post. I could bore you with all kinds of (valid) excuses, but let’s just get on with the show! When I saw this week’s topic […]
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Another week has passed, and this week held an “event” I was quite dreading, to be honest. I had to have my wisdom tooth removed and was extremely nervous (but more and that tomorrow — probably). Right now, my jaw is still hurting quite a bit, but there were some happy moments this week nonetheless. […]
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When Deborah St James seeks refuge from the rain and her own sadness in the National Gallery, she does not expect to find herself confessing to an Anglican priest, Robin Sage. Still less to be doing so as they contemplate Leonardo’s cartoon of the Virgin and Child with St Anne, wondering why — yet again […]
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I was ill for a considerable part of this week, but there were still a lot of happy moments! And this week I passed the 50 days, so we’re already half way done. Wow, time really does fly… Day 49: Banana pancakes for breakfast! Day 50: I’ve fallen quite ill with a nasty cold, but my dear […]
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I’ve talked about John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars (way too) many times since I started this blog in October, so you can probably imagine how much I was looking forward to the film. While the early posters said it was coming out on June 6 in the Netherlands, just like in the United States, […]
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Books Baking and Blogging 