A normal childhood requires a great many stories, and demands that at least some of those stories have a little bit of magic thrown into them. For my sister and I, led by my sister’s obsession with all things Ancient, and with our young imaginations rather firmly captured by a particularly wonderful book, this childhood magic filtered in through the escapades of the Greek Gods.
Happy New Year Friends! I thought that this year I’d share my four general aims for 2016, as they pretty much manage to cover the myriad of smaller intentions I have for improvement this year. Because it turns out that the start of the year is quite a convenient time to think about change. So here we go: make, think, join, give.
So, it’s the end of the year as we know it, which is absolutely terrifying to me. We’ve spent the last year running around like crazy, getting our science on, moving house (and city, kind of), moving job and generally practicing being grownups (ok, not trying so hard- but some of us turned OLD 30 this year). Here’s a quick run-down of what we’ve been up to in the last year or so.
This year’s Christmas tree was a bit of a rush compared to the ‘homemade pastels’ of last year, the ‘grey and red knit‘, or even the ‘guesthouse miniature’ of our very first family Northern Hemisphere Christmas. And so, ok, I went back to my default setting of ‘RED!’
This year, I became obsessed with the idea of making things for Christmas. You’ve seen the traditional cookies, but it extended beyond that.
I’m pretty excited that this year I finally managed to get together the ingredients and equipment to make my family’s traditional Christmas cookies.
Today is Andy’s Birthday, so it seems fitting to let him regale you of another tale of Poland. We were fortunate to enjoy one of the last really great sunny weekends of the year during our visit to Warsaw.
So, I know that Halloween is well and truly over. I know that some among us are well on their way to embracing Thanksgiving, that some more of us are getting slightly nervous about the rapidly approaching Christmas season, and that almost all of us are feeling particularly concerned about the fact that another year has whizzed on by. But because of that whizzing, I still didn’t get a chance to show you how pretty we were on halloween. So here goes.
Hi there, and thanks for stopping by the new and improved moved Fishwithwhiskey.
Hi all, I finally managed to convince Andy- the mostly silent partner of FishwithWhiskey- to do a guest post. I just feel like he is more in touch with the Fatherland/Poland than me- given that it is actually the land of his forfathers. Here goes: