The Signficance of Insignificant Moments
How Ordinary Moments Matter Gratitude and Ordinary moments I’ve blogged before about how completing my ‘grateful list’ each day, even when I don’t feel like doing it, is important to me. I really do think that actively and consciously expressing gratitude creates positive emotions and increases personal well-being. I suppose it’s a kind of ‘you […]
Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments
Book Review of Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments The Testaments – Worth the Wait? I blogged earlier in the week about reading Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale in preparation of reviewing Atwood’s The Testaments. I wanted to thoroughly prepare for the new release and make sure that I could remember who was who, why they mattered and so on.. Was it […]
Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
Book Review of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale As far as I know, Margaret Atwood is a pretty ‘out there’ author, offering inspiration and online writing advice. This would be great for IB students to tap into. I even think I read or heard on a radio interview somewhere that Atwood has a scheme where she ‘pair […]
‘It’s Bin Day’ – Nostalgic Word Association
‘It’s Bin Day – Nostalgic Word Association I’m sitting in Humberside airport lounge (again) waiting for yet another Cityhopper plane to fly me to Amsterdam. I am then travelling onto Bangkok. Actually I’ve just discovered an excellent website about Bangkok called www.thatbangkoklife.com and definitely plan to do some of the tourist things suggested in it, Time is […]
Things My 21 Year Old Self Didn’t Know (but not wise things!)
Tips for my Younger Self Mick sent us a Whatsapp collage of some of the photos we’d seperately sent him whilst away. We sure did miss him. Things I’d tell my Younger Self Birthday Trip to SalamancaI’m writing this blog post sitting on the plane next to Betsy, returning home from a trip taken to […]
It’s a Cop Out to Blame Fate
Do you believe in fate? https://youtu.be/LkEX_EqBeq8 Do you believe in free choice or do you think everything is pre-determined?I watched and really enjoyed the film Sliding Doors last night starring Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah and co-starring John Lynch. It’s made me terribly confused though as I’ve always been a big believer in free choice and it suggests that everything is pre-determined. […]