It had been ages since I’d gone actual, physical shopping. You know, the kind where you leave the house, walk into shops, touch clothes, look at price tags. You like something but you don’t buy it (because something better is always waiting around the corner), so you walk some more, look at more clothes, decide that the first shop was indeed the best, and then go back only to discover that you can’t remember exactly which shop it was. So you begin all over again.
Continue reading “Shopping: The Dandiya edit”Ted Lasso, empty nest and the F word syndrome
One morning last weekend, the husband, N and I finished our morning tea and, as I was clearing the table, trying to balance multiple cups and the biscuit bowl on one tiny tray, predictably enough, I upturned one of the cups and leftover tea dribbled down my T-shirt.
Continue reading “Ted Lasso, empty nest and the F word syndrome”Of morality and the choices we make: Reading East of Eden
Ever since I finished reading East of Eden by John Steinbeck (re-reading it, actually) I have been struggling to put my thoughts down. This book is so rich with food for thought, that I feel I haven’t even begun to digest everything it has to offer, despite reading it twice.
Continue reading “Of morality and the choices we make: Reading East of Eden”Piranesi by Susanna Clarke – Review and some thoughts
This is by far one of the most unusual and unexpectedly rewarding books I’ve read.
First up, let me confess: It took me three attempts to read it. The first two ended in DNFs. I simply couldn’t get into it. And that is why I am so glad I went back a third time.
Continue reading “Piranesi by Susanna Clarke – Review and some thoughts”My Kind of Weird
I am an easy going person. I make space for a lot of people in my life, people who are entirely different from me, younger, older, working professionals, stay-at-home moms, readers, artists, runners – all kinds.
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