So since I spoiled you all (read: really tuckered out the ol' brain box) by writing two posts last month, I'm taking this month off, so this is just going to be a quick little language-learning update. It's been quite a busy month as it happens - I took a trip into Northumberland to my … Continue reading Taking the month off – a short update
Well, where do I even start to describe last night? It's taken me a large portion of the day to get over the shock (and the not inconsiderable amount of whiskey involved in our Eurovision party's traditional bingo game), but I'm finally ready to put pen to parchment, as it were. It was our first … Continue reading Eurovision Song Contest 2022
You know, I was looking back on my blog over the past year, and I noticed something. Last April, I posted a selection of short book reviews, with some of my favourites from the previous year. I realised that this might be something I'd like to continue - a sort of tradition - so, here … Continue reading Starting a tradition
So, cards on the table here... this isn't the post I'd had planned for this month, but it seemed kind of in bad taste to post that, given everything that's going on in the world. So I've relegated that until next month, and instead, I wanted to share a little impromptu check-in about my language-learning … Continue reading A short update
Well! It feels like I've been teasing this post for a while, so it feels strange to actually sit down and write it. As many of you who are regular readers of my blog, I mentioned (somewhat obliquely) towards the end of last year that I had been taking language classes online - but I … Continue reading Latgalian, a journey into the unknown
You know, it feels like only yesterday people were talking about the summer solstice, and how the nights were soon going to be drawing in… and now, bloody hell, we’ve had Christmas and New Year, and it's time to be off on another collective journey around the sun. I know I won't be alone in … Continue reading Record of achievement
Well, here we are once again. Another Polyglot NaNoWriMo, another chance to drop out half way and feel bad about it. But you know what? This time, I refuse to let myself feel bad about it. November has been a busy month for me; I work full time, which I juggled with an online course … Continue reading Focusing on the positives
I'm no stranger to putting a little too much on my plate, and I'm not just talking about at Lao's Chinese buffet. Mainly because it closed down during the pandemic. Last year, when the time came to do Polyglot NaNoWriMo, it coincided with me moving into my new flat, so I was fighting to find … Continue reading Another slice of Polyglot NaNoWriMo
So, I’ve got to be honest with you guys. Trying to balance the reemergence of my social life with trying to do as much overtime as humanly possible without reducing my brain to sludge has proven a little trickier than I had anticipated, and as such the advent of October has taken me completely by … Continue reading Running to keep up
So, as a quick disclaimer - I'm not American, so I don't really know what the true summer camp experience is like, much less the feeling of returning home after a month in a cabin by a lake, but I've seen the Lindsay Lohan version of The Parent Trap upwards of twenty times, and I've … Continue reading Coming home from camp
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