There is something so intrinsically friendly and happy about a summer field filled with buttercups.
Review: Europe on 5 Wrong Turns a Day: One Man, Eight Countries, One Vintage Travel Guide
Europe on 5 Wrong Turns a Day: One Man, Eight Countries, One Vintage Travel Guide by Doug Mack My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is a fun little read. How does the Europe on 5 dollars a day travel guide from way back translate to traveling in Europe today? Some of us (the author… Continue reading Review: Europe on 5 Wrong Turns a Day: One Man, Eight Countries, One Vintage Travel Guide
Adventures in royal history
If I had limitless holiday time, funding, and people who wanted to go with me, I would love to take a tour of European castles and palaces. There is just something about stepping through the history and looking at the architecture. And, let’s not forget, going to other countries.
Google Reader, again.
So, I’m still partially using GoogleReader and hanging on as long as possible. Wired had a post up on Google’s reasoning behind it, and what they want us to use instead… The answer is Google Now and Google+… but from what I read about those two – and know from experience with Google+, I am… Continue reading Google Reader, again.
Quotation Monday #17 – Good management
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. Paul Hawken
I am grateful for…
My sisters. They’re much nicer now than they were when we were growing up – and I am so grateful that I have all three of them. They’re truly my best friends – well, except when we’re tired and grumpy and know which buttons to push to annoy each other… Our parents. They believe we… Continue reading I am grateful for…
Rhubarb crumble
For years, I searched for the jam I had when I was on a language course in Vichy and staying in a private lodging. My French was not to the point where I could easily translate the fruit names, and my memory in the last four months of high school, was dedicated to remembering stuff… Continue reading Rhubarb crumble
One of my earliest memories
That I know is a memory and not just something I’ve been told, is picking my grandfather up at the hospital and bringing him home for a visit. I know it was the summer I turned four in 1987, as I had one sister, we had a blue Volvo station wagon and not the Renault,… Continue reading One of my earliest memories
Name dilemma? (100 things #11)
The Telegraph writes that Prince William and Kate Middleton in name dilemma.