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Norway Diaries 2: Goodbye, Sandefjord

Today, for Thursday doors,a challenge hosted by Dan, I figured I’d share the last of my door pictures taken in Sandefjord, Norway. I’m also going to participate in Jo’s Monday walk since this is also a post about my walk to Gokstad mound, where the 9th century Gokstad viking ship was found buried. Last but […]

Book Reviews: Poetry, Fiction, and Memoir…

Originally posted on Baydreamer ~ Lauren Scott:
I’m inches away from the finish line for my book. It’s a s-l-o-w process because this poetry collection is larger, which calls for more editing and formatting. Anyway, I still managed to get some good, relaxing reading in, and I thoroughly enjoyed the following books. I hope you enjoy…

Norway Diaries: Warming up

You know how it feels when there’s so much you want to say or write about but have no idea where to begin. That’s how I feel currently. I’ve spent the last 18 days soaking up the Norwegian summer, and I couldn’t be more grateful than I am for the opportunity. Hubby had a training […]

Smorgasbord Book Promotions – Summer Book Fair 2023 – #Mystery Anne R. Allen, #Selfdiscovery #Love Smitha Vishwanath, #PostApocalyptic #SciFi C.S. Boyack

Originally posted on Smorgasbord Blog Magazine:
This year in the first part of the Summer Book Fair, I will be revisiting some of the new books on the shelves promotions for the last six months. It offers not just an opportunity to boost the book but also to share a follow up review. Later on…

FOTD 8/6/2023: Dent de lion

It’s kind of difficult to choose which flower you want to share when you’re in a country filled with flowers. I’m in Norway currently and the fun thing is that I’m not on holiday (I’m accompanying my husband who’s here on work). This means I get to be here and do things at my pace […]

If I couldn’t write, what would I do?

This post is for Alex Cavanaugh’s Insecure Writers Support Group (click the link for details on what that means and how to join. You will also find a list of bloggers signed up to the challenge that are worth checking out. The first Wednesday of every month, we all post our thoughts, fears or words […]

FOTD 070623: Lilacs & Weekly poetry challenge No. 323, 6/6/23

I’m participating in the Flower of the Day challenge and in Wordcraft poetry. The wordcraft poetry challenge requires us to choose a colour and write a syllabic poetry on the color and use one of the words associated with the color provided in the chart below by Colleen. My flower for today is lilacs. And […]

Book Review: Re-Create & Celebrate by Cindy Georgakas

I’m generally apprehensive about buying self-help books. Experience, I feel, is the best teacher. But then I saw Robbie Cheadle’s review of the book. And her line, ‘I am not a frequent reader of self-help books, but I have been following Cindy Georgakas’s lovely blog for some time now, and I knew she had some […]

FOTD 060623 : Giant Ornamental Onion

I hadn’t been able to post the last few days as my laptop died, and the charger from India didn’t fit into the Scandinavian plug point. I tried getting an adapter yesterday, but they didn’t have any that was suitable for my charger. The hotel lent me a Dell charger. The pin fit in the […]

Thursday Doors 02.06.23- an open and a closed one

This is the door to the salon I went to yesterday. It was open, and I managed to do whatever I wanted to. Housed in a villa, a km and a half away from home, it was my first time there. I accompanied a friend, who happens to have lived in Dhaka for a long […]