Three Things for Your Weekend
#19: November 22nd, 2024
After a couple of wonky weeks with regards to the schedule, I’m back in the room. I missed you!
📖 Rewitched* - Lucy Jane Wood. (*ad - Amazon affiliate link). I’m reading a lot of fiction following women around the age of 30 as they re-evaluate what’s important to them and what they’d expected their lives to look like. No further comment on that…
This novel is fabulous - our heroine Bella Blackthorn suddenly finds herself going through witch trials and training while trying to stay in her best friend’s good books and keep up with what’s happening at the bookshop she works at. I finished it and immediately pre-ordered the sequel*.
❓ Competitive Quizzing. Last weekend I competed in my first inter-university quiz tournament and had an absolute ball of a time. A personal highlight was getting the fastest correct buzz-in of the entire tournament, in a British Literature question that was similar to one I’d messed up in practice the previous week. I’ve got another tournament coming up next weekend - I’ll let you know how it goes.
🍴 Pastina. It’s been super cold this week, so I’ve been loving making cosy comforting bowls of this Italian pasta goodness. I’m using the linked recipe from A Cozy Kitchen, scaled down to a single serving, and - as you can see - with peas mixed in for some brightness. It’s so good - when can I have it again?
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The pretty snow has turned to frozen ice and T's activities got cancelled and it is a DELIGHT! I've made the 36 hour foccacia, have a loaf of banana bread, T has done some gorgeous artwork. I've got a bunch of little tasks that it feels like I've never got time to do, and my plan is to work on them today, and then spend tomorrow on the sofa with books. We've finished our current read-aloud and are currently debating strategy - do we start the next Percy Jackson or save it for our long Christmas holiday?