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Love reading, travel, musicals and cooking. Talk about mental health, faith (sometimes), plodding on.
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I have so many books waiting to be read and seem to be slowing down in my rate of reading. I can’t keep up with the amount of books I want to read 📚

Obligatory pancakes for breakfast

Pancake day! Whoop! youtu.be/gj_aHCpZl4k?...

View from the top Of lift 109 at Battersea

This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II. Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.

Exploring somewhere new

I have zero knowledge about rugby but lots of swearing and now laughter coming from the boy

I also had a wander through some of the galleries at the V&A yesterday before meeting up with everyone. Was so interesting

Met up with some cousins in London yesterday who were visiting from Boston, had lunch at dishoom and a walk though Hyde park, was fun!

Sunday strolls @nationaltrust.bsky.social Bateman’s

I don’t know anything about Bobby Fischer

Seeing Bridget Jones mad about the boy tonight at the cinema. Really looking forward to it.

Valentines 2025 💘💝💖💕

Changing over from Goodreads to @thestorygraph.com for all my book tracking, do follow em there if you are on storygraph: app.thestorygraph.com/profile/rand...

Taking solace in books and pretty prints.

Turned 40 at the weekend. It feels really old and there have been times where I didn’t believe I’d get to this age…. Adjusting to this reality has been tricky but it’s going to be ok.

So today is literally the last days of my 30s…….. here we go 😩😳

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Just finished this Book ‘Four Seasons in Japan’ thanks for the recommendation @biggreenbooks.bsky.social I’d not heard of that book before but spot in with the suggestion

Back from a lovely few days at Center Parcs with the family…. First time the boy came away with the family and we all survived in one piece

This is the only flag I’m flying today. For Janey. #Trumpisacunt Let’s make it trend.

Got this recipe book before Christmas, done several recipes from it now all of which have come out really well, bbq chicken burgers came out nicely for dinner on Friday and just made hunters chicken for tea tonight also delicious (but didn’t take a pic)a

My body really doesn’t seem to get that in my days off I don’t need to be awake at 6am. Early morning reading it is with the cinnamon bun I bought yesterday got this exact eventuality