We’re not intending to do an account of lots of TV, music, film etc that we like. Honest. But we can’t go without mentioning Stephen Fry’s QI – quite interesting – quiz show on a Friday night. For any lovers of trivia, it’s a must. And for those who just feel tired and consider going …
Category archives: Reading
What number are you?
You may have heard of various schemes of personality types: Myers-Briggs and others. One we’ve been reading about for a while is the Enneagram. You can find more about it on http://www.enneagraminstitute.com This year, they ran a day course on it at church for the first time. We found a few more people like each …
My First Amazon Review
September may have been the month for the trip to Graz, but before going – in fact while Alison was in Germany – I read Robert Harris’ novel Imperium. After finishing it, I wrote a review on Amazon. It didn’t appear for a few days, but I looked it up recently and it’s proved useful …
The delights of charity shops
You know you are joining a bandwagon when you realise the City of Edinburgh Council has published a map of its charity shops. There were even articles about the map in the papers during the summer. Evidently theatre companies like to go around the charity shops to collect props for the productions that are then …
Little…and not very often
So, we’ve been in our own home for over two years now. How is it coming along? Rather slowly is the answer. Having helped other friends with their decorating over a few years, we roped in all the help we could get when we first moved in, and got both bedrooms painted. We also then …