by Clarissa | Mar 13, 2017 | Tech
I’ve had my activity tracking watch nearly six months now and I’ve been playing around with it a bit to see what it does, how it works and how I can use it. My first conclusion is that steps are useful but not the be all and end all of exercise. For...
by Clarissa | Mar 4, 2017 | family
I love cooking; though being able to do it on my own is a luxury I rarely have. As a child I only remember having to make crumble. (Now I make mean pastry.) I’m not sure why I didn’t do more? My sister did. I don’t like to ask for things, so maybe I...
by Clarissa | Feb 13, 2017 | writing
I keep saying every year how I want to write more: I could find posts saying this for 2017, 2016, 2015, 2012, & 2011. This year I have actually started as I mean to go on and have been writing, a little bit every day, as I can. Sometime last year I joined the 10...
by Clarissa | Feb 8, 2017 | family |
Meal planning is something I don’t particularly enjoy – I love cooking but often feel uninspired when faced with a blank piece of paper to sit down and decide what we should eat this week. And I don’t want to be eating new things every day, or eating...
by Clarissa | Jan 30, 2017 | dutch life |
Most of the time I forget I’m living in a foreign country. People are friendly and helpful and we just get on with our stuff. But there are a few things that bug me and remind me that this is a different place (in no particular order): They leave dog poo on the...
