Author: Hannah

3-a-Day: Day 1

I saw this idea on Yulia’s blog. Since switching back to an iPhone rather than being on my HTC Desire Z it’s a whole bunch easier to take and blog photos. So here is my day in three pictures. Continue reading →

Jane Austen and My Friend Jade

One of my favourite books is The Jane Austen Book Club – when Jade approached me and wanted to write a guest post about Jane Austen and Bath I was so excited. (As a child I remember visiting Bath with... Continue reading →

The Friday Read: No 11

A Book You’ve Been Told You Should Read But Never Will I love reading – I’ll try anything once so within reason I’d read anything once. I guess there are books out there that I refuse point blankly to read... Continue reading →

Friends

This might sound slightly crazy or even silly but I’m hoping you keep up with my thought line. So a few weeks back I went to see the film Bridesmaids. I’d seen the trailer, it looked okay and so I... Continue reading →

100 Word Challenge: Week 11

100 Word Challenge: Week 11 “I’m sorry I know you wanted to hang out but I gotta look after my little sister, Mum got called into work” Eli said “You can still come over but we might have to play... Continue reading →

The Friday Read: No 10

Your Favourite Classic I’m not sure I really have one to be honest. I keep trying to read Austen as if it would make me brainier or something lol. Then again Austen is the 1700/1800s answer to the modern day... Continue reading →

Comments on Katie’s Blog Post

Katie from Katie Anderson Blogs wrote about meeting online friends offline and how it’s become almost more socially acceptable rather than having a stigma attached to it like it might have had 5 or 10 years ago. I wrote an... Continue reading →

Review: Smart Touch

Two or three months back my Mum was looking at getting a new phone. She was deterred at first from getting an iPhone or another phone with a touch screen as she struggles to use it – mainly due to... Continue reading →

Travel Thursday: No 15

Your Favourite City You Have Visited Seriously just one city – that’s going to be a very tough choice. Well Amsterdam, Paris and Barcelona are most definitely somewhere up there in the top ones and if we went back to... Continue reading →

Happy Birthday!!

Today the lovely Ruby from Sew, Cook, Create celebrates her 24th Birthday!! Woot Woot Please wish her Happy Birthday on Twitter or leave her a comment on her blog 🙂 Continue reading →

100 Word Challenge: Week 10

100 Word Challenge: Week 10 Clearly being in a field works better for the inspiration because I’ve got killer writers block lol. The picture above is the prompt for this week’s 100 Word Challenge from Julia. “Are you honestly sure... Continue reading →

30 Days of Lists: Day 13

List Thirteen: Things I Do To Procrastinate I’m like an overachiever when it comes to procrastinating – oh look the washing needs to be done – I know I’ll reclassify all those posts that are under “Stuff To Sort” rather... Continue reading →

Chris’s LE2JOG Challenge: Day Ten

At the beginning of September, Chris set out on his birthday challenge to cycle from Land’s End in Cornwall to John O’Groats in Scotland (aka LE2JOG). This is my attempt to blog along the route. I came home on Sunday... Continue reading →

Chris’s LE2JOG Challenge: Day Eight

At the beginning of September, Chris set out on his birthday challenge to cycle from Land’s End in Cornwall to John O’Groats in Scotland (aka LE2JOG). This is my attempt to blog along the route. So it’s Saturday. This time... Continue reading →

Chris’s LE2JOG Challenge: Day Seven

At the beginning of September, Chris set out on his birthday challenge to cycle from Land’s End in Cornwall to John O’Groats in Scotland (aka LE2JOG). This is my attempt to blog along the route. It’s Friday today which means... Continue reading →

The Friday Read: No 9

Books I Am Currently Reading This is seriously a bad question. At present I have the following in progress: For Women Only by Shaunti Feldhahn (Chris suggested it after one of the talks at Grapevine this year), My Life in... Continue reading →

Travel Thursday: No 14

The place you’ve visited that had the friendliest people I think it would have be Amsterdam, I had a phrase book and kept trying to speak Dutch but a lot of the people I met were too excited to practice... Continue reading →

100 Word Challenge: Week 9

Oops! I missed a few weeks – where did the time go? Mary thought “If I sneaked out now while Dad was at the store, I could be back in time before he noticed.” Mary knew that if she kept... Continue reading →

His Pledge To Her……..

His pledge to her: “i will kill the spiders. i will share my fries with you when you’ve finished all yours and are still hungry. i won’t ever pop my collar. i will never be rude to your tummy- when... Continue reading →

What I Wore Today

Today my best friend from school married her boyfriend. They’ve been together over 6 years ish (maybe – actually it could be closer to 7 or even 8). I rarely do WIW posts because I usually don’t have anyone to... Continue reading →

The Friday Read: No 8

Your Favourite Non-Fiction Book I’m going to say that The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom is my favourite non-fiction book – it’s not a happy story in what happens but at the same time it’s inspiring and somehow that... Continue reading →

30 Days of Lists – Day 1

List 1: Goals for This Month. I had a whole plan about how I was going to design my book and what I was going to do but August flew by and then next thing I know I’m leaving for... Continue reading →

Review – August

August Chris’s birthday was at the beginning of the month – as two of our friends celebrated their birthday’s at the beginning of the month we had a group get together which was fun. We met at the new Pastor’s... Continue reading →
Travel Thursday

Travel Thursday: No 13

The most unusual place you’ve spent a night while travelling I went camping up in Scotland just outside Inverurie and I napped in the back seat of my Fiat Seicento. For most of the night, we stayed in the house... Continue reading →

Movies – One Day

Before you get to the bottom and go “Han, you plonker you told me the ending!” you might not want to read past the “Read More” bit in case I spoil the story for you. A while back I picked... Continue reading →

Thoughts and Giveaways

Usually when I write blog posts I do spend some time puzzling over what I’m going to write and I’ll go back and tweak it beyond believe sometimes to make sure that the pictures line up or that the headers look nice... Continue reading →

The Friday Read: No 7

Your Favourite Fictional Hero In my eyes the person I am going to pick isn’t fictional – she’s actually non-fictional but there are atheists out there who would disagree with me and would say that she is fictional and that... Continue reading →

Friday Finds: No 4

Today’s Friday Finds is about Bicycles For the last 4 years – I’ve borrowed Chris’s or The Kiwi’s bike if I’ve needed to cycle somewhere. Last week I finally got my own bike home and this week I cycled to... Continue reading →

A Bad Day

I try to be positive and appreciate what I have but I do really need to rant. Now I get that there are people out there without jobs or with huge money worries – especially given the economic climate so... Continue reading →

Travel Thursday: No 12

Your most frightening travel experience Turkey again – one night there was a power cut – which probably would have been fine with but I was in a foreign country, sharing a room with my cousin (who at the time... Continue reading →

A Ramble

Well I tried to write a normal post but this was all that came out – hence why it’s a bit jumbled and doesn’t make sense lol.   How to start this post – I keep looking at the blank... Continue reading →

Cooking: Apple Crumble

Chris tends to do most of the cooking in our house, so for me to cook it’s a bit of a blog-able event. A few weeks back Chris was given an epic bag of apples – I don’t know if... Continue reading →

20th August

I know a very unoriginal post title but you’ll see why soon. As I write this, I’m sat in my bed it’s 20 to 11 on a Saturday night and my throat is hurting even more than it was yesterday.... Continue reading →

Mission Rescue: Day 4

This week, I’ve been helping at Mission Rescue holiday club at Howard Memorial Church in Cardington. I used to go with my brother as a kid and my Mum was helping and now, my Mum is still helping I help... Continue reading →

Plotting and Planning

My friend Nathan aka Wez (I know him as Wez as that’s his Twitter name – it feels weird calling him Nathan even though that’s his name lol) is planning a hypothetical adventure. His idea behind it is to blog... Continue reading →

The Friday Read: No 6

Your Favourite Genre of Books I don’t think I have a favourite one. I read alot of Crime/Mystery and Fantasy books so I guess those two would become my favourites. I think the main reason I like the Crime/Mystery ones... Continue reading →

Travel Thursday: No 11

Your saddest/most upsetting travel experience I don’t think I have one – I guess being injured on holiday was quite upsetting but that was like an hour in tears and then move onto the next thing. I guess Turkey might... Continue reading →

100 Word Challenge: Week 6

You can find this week’s prompt here. The sun shone but there was a chill in the air as Sooz headed for the tube stop, it was August but she needed her woolies. It was 5:30am and it was the... Continue reading →

Our Talk: Me and Mum

This evening at holiday club, Mum interviewed me, we are looking at the story of Moses this week and how God protected him, so Mum interviewed me about an occasion when God has protected me. So here is the interview.... Continue reading →

100 Word Challenge: Week 5

So I’ve seen this challenge posted both on Ian‘s and Sally‘s blogs but never got round to doing it – but this time I did. It took me a few attempts as the first attempt was about 160 words and... Continue reading →

101 in 1001 Days: No 20

When I was at Middle School I used to cycle to and from school quite alot. Then when I moved to upper school I would cycle some of the time and then gradually after learning to drive I pretty much... Continue reading →

Friday Finds: No 3

Today’s Friday Finds is about Typography – because I love it so much lol. I decided after reading this article on the Moo blog that that’s today’s theme needed to be. I wish I could use an actual Letter Press... Continue reading →

The Friday Read: No 5

The Last Book You Read I am the worst person for reading 2 or 3 books at once – I think the most I got to was 4 and then decided it was taking the mickey so I needed to... Continue reading →

Travel Thursday: No 10

A travel experience involving illness or injury Growing up I was a bit accident prone. One year we went camping near Dover – we’d been to visit a castle (Castle trips were like a staple of our holidays!) I was... Continue reading →

Randoms – Prayer Time

I’m on of those people who pray in funny places – so on the loo or in the car on the way to and from work. (The loo is a random place I know but there’s like zero distraction –... Continue reading →

FuelMyBlog: Joe Delucci’s

I’d starting writing a whole post and was almost finished then I changed app on my phone which should have been okay but when I came back to the WordPress app and my post was gone – even the draft... Continue reading →

Blog Love

This evening (well at least it’s evening in Australia), my lovely friend Ruby posted her first blog post today (then again with the coming soon it’s really a second post – but that’s not the point!). She’s started blogging and... Continue reading →

#BeautifulLiesUK

I’ve seen offers of tickets to events pop up on Twitter in the past but often they have clashed with things I’ve already had in my diary like band practice or church meetings. I saw one pop up yesterday afternoon... Continue reading →

The Friday Read: No 4

The Book You Have Re-Read The Most Often Okay so here I’m going to quote a film and it’s because it always springs to mind whenever someone asks me about re-reading the same book. (Then again I couldn’t decide which... Continue reading →

July

There goes another month lol. Why does it feel like the whole of July just sprinted past when I wasn’t looking?! So highlights of July (They didn’t necessarily happen in this order) • My cousin got married to his lovely... Continue reading →

The Friday Read: No 3

Your Favourite Book From Childhood I briefly touched on my favourite childhood books last week when I was talking about The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom. I was trying to think if there were any particular books I remember... Continue reading →

{Wedding}

  I can’t show you actual pictures of the Bride and Groom as there were special requests but I took some pictures of the decorations and things like that (hopefully that’s okay right?). The cake was created by Putnoe Cakes... Continue reading →

{100 Word Challenge: Wk 3}

You can find this week’s prompt here. I spent about an hour writing this (on the 15th August) only to realise that it’s the wrong prompt so I’ve posted it back where it should have been! Doh!  The crowd had... Continue reading →

The Friday Read: No 2

The Most Inspiring Book You’ve Ever Read I would say that one of the most inspiring books I’ve read is The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom. I’m pretty sure that I’ve written about the book in the past either... Continue reading →

{Musings and Rambles}

Have you ever had that feeling that there is so much going on around you that you’re bound to miss something. That’s what I feel like right about now. Yesterday I had the day off work because I woke up... Continue reading →

{Friday Finds: No 2}

Having seen Larry Crowne last week (or was it the week before I can’t remember now!) I re-realised my love for scooters – in particular Vespa.     Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Continue reading →

The Friday Read: No 1

Your favourite author I’m going to start this post with this – it’s kinda strange writing at my Mum’s Computer rather than my own. It’s almost 11pm on Thursday 14th July and I’m in the process of setting up my... Continue reading →

Travel Thursday: No 9

The Best Business Trip You Have Been On Short post today. I’ve actually not been on that many – I’ve been on three for the company that I currently work for – two were in Bedford (or surrounding area). The... Continue reading →

Travel Thursday: No 8

Your Funniest Travel Experience Anything with a youth group I think lol. In 2002 I went to Festival Manchester with the youth group I was part of, on the first day one of the lads in the tent next door... Continue reading →

{Well Hello There}

So I had this whole plan to get back into normal blogging this weekend but it didn’t seem to happen – Saturday was good to a certain point then I had the mother of all headaches and had to retreat... Continue reading →