“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”Phrynette Married by Marthe Troly After one year in lockdown, more and more people are proud of their incredibile achievements, using the time spent at home as an opportunity to do something that was always on their minds: learning a new language, writing a book, making bread. And obviously,…
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never…
“I still believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and true love. Don’t even try to tell me different.” – Dolly Parton When I was a kid, Easter was my favourite holiday of the year: no school for almost a week, I could spend days outdoors enjoying the sunshine and the flowers blooming,…
“If you can dream it, you can do it.”—Walt Disney “Where there is a will, there is a way”-Pauline Kael “Impossible is Nothing”-Muhammad Ali I have been thinking about writing this post for a while. As you might be aware, at the end of last year I decided to create my own advent calendar, to…
“And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.” The Beatles I have always considered myself a citizen of the world: I am Rome as, no matter how insignificant is what I am doing, I put all my heart and passion towards it; I am London with my dry…
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.” – J.K. Rowling At the end of the day, failure is part of the process. You didn’t get that job today, and maybe…
Twenty-twenty: it sounds like a comforting number, there is a 2 and then a 0, then again, and you think that you know what is coming your way. I am sure that for most of us it has been a very different year: the luckiest ones can only complain about getting bored to be stuck…
I can’t bake. This is something I already wrote many times here in the blog, and I have said it out loud so many times that I’ve lost count. It is a strange machine our brain, isn’t it? We store a piece of information and it just lives there, rent free, no questions asked. I…
Whitby is a special seaside town in Yorkshire, particularly famous for the majestic Abbey ruins at the top of the East Cliff, and for the presence of the mineraloid Jet, found in the cliffs and on the moors. Jet has been used since the Bronze Age to make beads, and became very popular in the 19th century…
‘Being from Yorkshire is as much a state of mind as a geographical fact.’ – Liam Allen If I only had a penny for every time I heard this sentence since I moved here, I would have paid off my mortgage! I love how proud are the Yorkshire people of being from God’s Own County – and…
