My First Newsletter
To get to know each other I thought I would send out newsletters.
I am reading
Lessons in Chemistry – not enjoying it – sorry, I do not relate to the main character at all. I am just finding the book quite gruelling and lonely. I have not finished it yet but I am bored by it I am afraid, really annoyingly though, it is good enough to make me want to keep going and finish it.
To me the main thrust of the book is Elizabeth’s desire to be independent: independence = freedom.
Important I know and maybe true joy is being independent and feeling supported? Randomly, I do believe we all need a Universal Basic Income. As a life long needy people-pleaser I just do not chime in with this woman at all.
Anyway, am I getting it or am I barking up the wrong tree?
I am at the point where she is presenting the TV programme, can anyone else please explain to me what is so great about this book? It has had so many good reviews… I would love to know.
I am watching
Marcella Series 3 and LOVING it. I do relate to mad Marcella funnily enough: she is very independent but does not really want to be – much more sane in my opinion. Anna Friel is looking very good – she seems to get more beautiful every time I see her. In case you have not seen this programme it is available on ITVX and it is about a young lady detective who is married with two gorgeous children, but heartbreakingly loses a child and unravels very badly. She becomes a workaholic and in the end, things really do fall apart, she loses the plot completely at the end of series 2 but miraculously pulls herself back together and comes back to life for series 3 - thank goodness!
Bonus – wonderful interiors! Series 3 is set in Northern Ireland and we have done loads of shoots over there – such a vibrant place! A bit like Marcella, the whole country is being rejuvenated and has literally come back to life!
I am listening to Stolen Hearts, a true crime podcast set between Wales and Essex, a fun, feisty cop, Jill, a glam single parent, finds herself involved with a dashing bloke she meets online, who turns out to be a criminal – just listened to first episode and I am gripped!!
I am enjoying
Autumn walks and designing my kitchen…
Above is a kitchen moodpboard I created a few months ago, below is a kitchen moodboard I created this morning after a weekend of bashing out my plans with my husband.
I seem to be on a journey from Japandi/Rustic to much more seriously Japandi… tbc
I am writing
My latest blog post about a Lovely Autumnal Shoot in Monmouthshire
Hi Alison, I loved this book. I think you have to get your head around the period it is set in. It made me think of my mother’s generation and how it was expected that she wouldn’t work but would automatically be the one to stay at home and bring up the children. She didn’t enter business until her fifties. Whereas I was able to state ‘this is the career I want and I’m going away to study for it!’, and when we had children my husband stayed at home to look after them while I carried on working. Big changes over a generation. That’s what I see this book as being about, and I loved the humour. I’m now enjoying watching it on Apple TV.
Love the Japandi look!