Bonjour, Just a quick post to say I am in fact not dead, only on holiday. The WiFi connection here is notoriously iffy, as well as being extremely unreliable, so I'm posting this on my phone as it seems to have a better signal than my laptop. I haven't been up to all that much, just sun, sand and sea - with the occasional frozen yogurt for...

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Bonjour, I've decided that every Sunday I'm going to do a 'spotlight' post, where I present one of my favourite YouTubers or bloggers, and explain my thoughts about them. First up is Nadia Esra, a blogger from the Netherlands. I discovered her blog They Call Me Redhead through Polyvore quite a while ago, and I fell in love with her gorgeous style and...

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Bonjour, I've spent a lot of these past few days looking at the photo albums, watching home videos of my brother and I when we were little and generally wallowing in nostalgia. All this inspired me to compile a list of things which remind me of my childhood, some of which are great to fill the endless days stretching out in front of...

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Bonjour, I finished the novel Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein almost a week ago, but it's taken me about that long to get my head organised enough to write this review. Which may I remind you is my first one here on this blog, so it might be a little rough. This is one of those books which it's almost impossible to...

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Bonjour, One hot, sunny afternoon when I was in the UK, I wandered down to the church of the little village where my grandparents live. Even after my trip to find and photograph the graveyards where my ancestors rest, I had by no means had enough of churches - I'm not in the least religious, but I find it so peaceful walking through...

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Bonjour, When I got my typewriter a week ago, my little brother was immediately obsessed with it, and I could hardly get near it on that first day. Since then, he's jumped on the retro bandwagon and ordered himself a record player off Amazon, which prompted my mum to dig out her enormous record collection and spend hours reminiscing over 80s classics. My...

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Bonjour, While I was in the UK I did a fair bit of shopping, so now I'm back home with more time on my hands, I decided to do a haul post showing what I bought. As usual I went to Forever 21, Primark and New Look, since the first two of those we don't have over here and I always go a...

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Bonjour, I'm rather pleased with the title of this post, I thought it was marginally droll - it's a quote by Jarod Kintz from Who Moved My Choose?: An Amazing Way to Deal With Change by Deciding to Let Indecision Into Your Life. Apparently. Anyway, a couple of days ago I went with my mum and grandad to visit a few towns where...

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Bonjour, We're well into July, and for most countries in the northern hemisphere summer is well and truly underway! If you're planning on going away during the summer holidays, or just lazing around the house, what better way to entertain yourself than read a book? It's ideal for the beach, as unlike any electronics you don't have to worry about keeping it charged...

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