We’ve celebrated Volya’s 7th birthday yesterday. We don’t know when is her real birthday, but this is what the doctor wrote in her pet passport. What we know is that she is 7. The doctor from the animal shelter, the Polish doctor who gave her the tablet so she can travel to the UK, and […]
I just realised that I haven’t made one of these posts – my TRB list – since 2022. So, this is a new and short list for 2026. I highlighted the name of the books so they are easier to spot. This is an unusual mix, with comic books and non-fiction. I will see if […]
This is one of 2 blog posts I will write about Volya this month. The second one, on her birthday celebrations, was planned, this one just happened after I saw a tweet. Volya is enjoying her cardboard cake scratching – bed thingy. I will write about this in another post. I will just say that […]
Despite me wanting to go to Ukraine for a week, I was too busy to be able to do so. The fact that the russians struck Lviv with an oreshnik [intermediate-range ballistic missile] only annoyed me and I looked again at flights and my schedule for the month. This IRBM has a range of up […]
I have American friends online and offline and I was debating if I should write this post or not. I feel loss when it comes to the US, so this is why I have decided to write this. In 2023 I nearly went to the US. If the visa procedure would have taken less, I […]
These mid-month updates started last year, when I was doing loads and wanted to split the month in 2 otherwise a monthly post would have been too long. This year I am thinking that I will do these mid-month and end-of-month posts by default. Let’s see. Now I am in London, getting ready for a […]
I am doing pretty well with these goals, with a exception – sewing – which is proving to be impossible to do year after year. Despite this, I like to set up some goals and keep a track of them throughout the year, making me more inclined to complete more things from the list than […]
Is crunch-time for my 2025 goals, before setting new ones for 2026. All the reviews and so on are on the blog, so do search if you fancy reading about anything in particular. I didn’t add links as there are so many. Goals for 2025: Blogs 1. Post regularly. I wanted to continue to post […]
I picked only 4 photos for each month, meaning a lot of important things were “ignored”. To see what’s in the photos, the descriptions for photos starts with the top row, left to right. January: Bucharest, Romania – Pug Cafe in Manchester – Event in London with authors I like and follow – Theatre in […]
Happy New Year! This is another short round-up, as I already blogged about the first half of the month in the mid-December update. Not a lot has happened after that, we met some friends and, of course was Christmas, which I blogged about a few days ago. The conservatory is almost done, so we’ve spent […]
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