by Clarissa | Feb 9, 2018 | family, food |
The Dutch are very good at biscuits and pastries. And one of their specialities is called speculaas – this is often translated as gingerbread into English, but it’s more of a biscuit that gingerbread generally is. One of the features of speculaas is the...
by Clarissa | Feb 5, 2018 | personal, writing |
I’ve been thinking about getting my own domain for a while, and over the weekend I took the plunge. I’ve also been playing around a bit with settings and things. All old links should still work but now also have new urls. Hopefully it now represents, a bit...
by Clarissa | Feb 2, 2018 | writing |
I’ve finished my novel. It is over 69000 words long, includes nearly 5000 unique words, and took me 15 months to write. Though I’ve had the idea for much longer than that. I started writing it by hand, but then switched to computer. Partly when I realised...
by Clarissa | Jan 29, 2018 | family |
So I now have two children at school. Starry girl takes delight in telling me that I miss her. And I do. The house seems very empty. Very quiet. When it was only for a couple of mornings a week I always had a list of things to get done before I was on pick-up duty....
by Clarissa | Jan 26, 2018 | family, food
Almost a year ago I posted about a new method I was trying for meal planning. So I figured it was time to post an update! My meal list has stayed pretty much the same, though with a few additions (toad in the hole how could I have forgotten you?!?). But the main...
