by Clarissa | Jul 24, 2017 | personal, Tech
So I’m still using with my garmin activity tracker. The amount of running has decreased recently though. Maybe after the summer holidays I’ll get back into that. And having used it for ten months now I’ve found a few issues with it. As it’s on...
by Clarissa | Jul 19, 2017 | family |
The more I read about bringing up children the more important I think it is to maintain a connection with them. In fact I made it one of my New Year’s Resolutions. I am trying to be more conscious about where my focus is – to either be actively doing...
by Clarissa | Jul 5, 2017 | dutch life, personal
So in my aims for this year I included taking the NT2 Dutch exams, and last week I sat the exams for program 2. I’m still waiting for the results – they should be out over the summer. Fingers well and truly crossed here! The exam was an experience unlike...
by Clarissa | Jun 8, 2017 | Tech |
Towards the end of last summer I realised that I was drifting through my days and wanted to change that. I was waiting for other people to do things first, before I did what I wanted to do. Which meant I didn’t get to do them. So I had a rethink of my daily...
by Clarissa | May 30, 2017 | dutch life, family
I’m reading Harry Potter in Dutch at the moment. (I may have mentioned this before!) And I keep noticing places where the translation is not just the words, but also the cultural expectation. I’ve mainly noticed it with the food they eat. The story of...
by Clarissa | May 27, 2017 | writing
I have a few times contributed to the 10 minute novelists drabble competitions. This is a challenge to write a 100 word story using three set words or phrases. And each story has to have a start, middle and end – so it is a whole story, which is surprisingly...
by Clarissa | May 23, 2017 | family |
I have done running before – some at university and some before I got married. This culminated in a 10km run with my husband a few months after our wedding. After which I swore I’d never run so far again and I stopped completely. And now, partly thanks to...
by Clarissa | May 16, 2017 | family
I love Paris, it’s a beautiful city with so many things to do and see. We went there for our honeymoon. During that trip we bought a painting of Paris, which hangs on the wall by our dining table. So everyday the children see the Eiffel Tower. And now...
by Clarissa | May 11, 2017 | dutch life, family
We have taken the plunge and got rocket boy a friend’s book. And of course as he had one starry girl needed one too. These are books that you ask your friends to fill out with information about themselves, along with a photo or drawing. So you end up with a book...
by Clarissa | May 8, 2017 | family
It’s weird wearing glasses for the first time. I was actually first given glasses some years ago, but I never really wore them much. Only really for driving (I need them for distance) and, as we don’t have a car, that’s not very frequent. Recently I...
