About me

Right, so you clicked here and I suppose I’d better satisfy your unquenchable longing for knowledge about the fascinating person that I am by providing you with some information.

I live.

I knit.

I bake.

(The order of these three things changes depending on the availability or not of a proper kitchen in the vicinity.)

My worth is not in baking or cooking or knitting, my worth is as a child of God, saved by Jesus’ blood. Sometimes I need reminding of that.

But that doesn’t mean that I don’t love all three.

Originally created, and still maintained from time to time as a baking / cooking blog (see categories to the right if you fancy searching for a recipe!), at the moment this space is mostly serving for me to keep family, friends, future Erasmus students, and nosy folk that just happened to wander by, updated about the year which I’m currently spending in Strasbourg studying law.

I am trying to be a Christ-follower, I am a Weegie, I love speaking a bit of franglais, and I am really, really bad at attempting to stick envelopes down by licking them. I hate rudeness, people swearing all the time, being awake before your host when staying over, being expected to be coherent and sensitive mere minutes after waking up, and when you’ve guests over and you don’t want to be rude, but it’s 2.30am and you’re very tired.

If that’s not satisfied your curiosity, a quick list of my attributes, activities, and interests*:

• Acquaintances who use the word “whom” correctly
• Baking (duh)
• Cannes de Combat (fighting with sticks)
• Discussions conducted in a friendly manner yet with some degree of passion
• Earmuffs, fluffy ones (though I love knitting hats, I hate wearing them. They give me headaches. Yes, even swim caps. Yes, even helmets if worn for long enough. No, I’m not making this up.)
• Films
• Grammar Nazism
• Hillwalking (when my knee is not dislocated, nor my ankle ligament torn)
• Internet-Geekery
• Juggling
• Knitting (double duh)
• Ligretto
• Music-listening
• Nuts which have been caramelised
• Oranges
• Pandas, specifically my giant fluffy one named Raoul
• Q**
• Reading
• Scrapbooking
• Tea, not English breakfast, but various other varieties. Lady Grey’s a top fave at the moment, along with mint. Lipton’s Andalousie is another newbie but a goodie.
• Ukulele-playing
• Vintage-shopping (preferrably charity shops, I am a student…)
• Wearing new clothes hours after buying them
• Xkcd
• Yahtzee
• Zoos

Admittedly, the last two are slightly nebulous, but I was running with a theme.

I think that’s about all there is to know about me, I do congratulate you if you managed to  make it all the way down here without skipping anything.

*Please let me know if you think of another word for “interests” that begins with “a”, the asymmetricallity is annoying me.

**I’m flummoxed, I had nearly all the alphabet, admittedly with some very tenuous additions, but Q has evaded me. Any ideas?!