What are the Values of School Trips
The students all take a moment to reflect at Kanchanburi War Cemetery The Benefits of School Residentials Residential Trips in Thailand School Residential Trips has featured high during this visit to Bangkok. As a ‘trailing spouse I’ve tagged along with Saint Mick of Thana whilst he has visited his school’s residential trips to Rayong, Khao Yai, Kanchanaburi, and Nakon Nayok. Tagging […]
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Cannery Row – Book Review and Book Club Discussion Questions Goodreads Challenge I am coming towards the end of my goodreads ‘reading challenge’. I pledged 50 books but have only read 42. Consequently I needed a slim book to read-how shallow I am! A dear friend and I had recently been chatting about John Steinbeck […]
The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya
The Girl Who Smiled by Clemantine Wamariya Autobiography, by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Wile, about Clemantine’s experience of the Rwandan Massacre.This is a powerful and well-written autobiography/biography sharing the story of Clemantine Wamariya. She and her sister Claire are adrift as refugees, fleeing the terror imposed during the Rwandan War. I hadn’t heard of Clemantine prior […]
Girl Woman Other by Bernadine Evaristo Book Review
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo Book Review I read Bernadine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other after she had already jointly won the Booker Prize with Margaret Atwood for The Testaments. I’d been intrigued to know what text would merit being considered equal to The Testaments as I had expected Atwood to be the lone winner […]
You Know You’re Middle-Aged When …
How you Know you’re Middle-Aged! A Steady Middle-Age I haven’t had much to blog about lately as October has been a fairly steady month. and I’ve felt pretty ordinary and dare I say, middle-aged. I’ve corrected myself when using middle-aged derogatively but … life has been pleasant but uneventful. I’ve been back in the UK […]
Jane Austen and Empty Nesters
Sleep Deprived Empty Nesters I’m lying here in bed at 3.35 a.m. listening to the rain outside wondering whether Annie got home ok from her night out yesterday. I’m not too worried as I know she was travelling with her friend Alfie, but I question whether it is raining over in Spain too and if […]