#adelearcherwrites

[adelearcherwrites]

Gym Virgin

The guy at the back wants to kill me…

I don’t know what it is about 2019 and trying out new things. First there was the choir, and that was stressful enough. Because, as you are by now fully aware, I really hate trying new things. But this week, I joined a gym! I’m always banging on about how I consider myself to be physically fit – still a work in progress – but the fittest I’ve ever been in my…

[rjnello]

How that book you love was quite likely also created.💝📚Glamorous, isn't it? A coffee, Adele (the musician, not @adelearcherwrites) singing from the iPhone, and a banana.💻📸😂 . I'm working on a travel short story. No way you're getting a selfie right now. Yes, I am dressed and could answer the front door; but I haven't shaved yet and only just about ran a comb through my hair once - I think - earlier.😜 . Have a good day, wherever you are in the world.😊🇬🇧 . #goodmorning #writing #writers #writersoninstagram #authorsofinstagram #authors #expats #expatlife #photo #photography #coffee #homeoffice #desk #music #humor #humour #fiction #romance #travel #Herts #Hertfordshire #England #books #bookstagram (at Welwyn, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom)

[adelearcherwrites]

Pass the Passport

Heartening news… It’s my own stupid fault, I know. But my husband took it upon himself to book some flights to Slovenia next month (like one does), so on hearing this cheering news, I languidly ambled upstairs to double-check my passport would cover the period of travel – plus six months. And low and behold, it did not – it expires in August 2022. Even then, I was still fairly chilled about it;…

[adelearcherwrites]

Gym Don'ts

Gym Don’ts

Now, there’s nothing worse than a regular gym-goer telling the novice what to do and what not to do. And let me tell you right off the bat that this isn’t going to be a post about clueless newbies starting out at the gym with improper form, or lifting too light, or being one of those who will only run on a treadmill for an hour without touching the weights. We know NOTHING about strangers at the…

[adelearcherwrites]

The High-Functioning Introvert

Happy Easter!

As good an excuse as any I’m sitting here in a Work from Home Café (is that a thing? I was going to say Internet Café but we’re not in the 90s, so I think I’ll stick with WFH Café). I mean, a lot of people her are working from home…in a cafe, but you can also just sit and drink coffee and eat cake if you want to (and I am). But I thought I’d bring my laptop along and force myself to write a…

[adelearcherwrites]

What I Eat in a Day 😳

*sigh*

Protein shake *Trigger warning – diet discussion* I’m sorry. I’ve knowingly lured you in under false pretenses. Because this isn’t really about what I eat in a day – well it is a bit. But it’s more about how I’ve changed my perspective on (and my general annoyance over) diet culture. I’m sure you’ve seen the trend on Insta and TikTok (I don’t have ‘TikTok’, I’m fifty). Some twenty-something…

[adelearcherwrites]

Namaste Yogis

Child’s Pose: My shoulder stops me getting any flatter. In passing, I mentioned the other week that I’ve recently got into yoga and have practiced nearly every day since the beginning of October. So I think it’s a keeper even for a person like me who tends to go through ‘phases’. It’s a practice that I’d attempted off and on over the years but never really got on board with as there was always…

[adelearcherwrites]

Age Appropriate

I was going to write this blog when I turned fifty (just before Christmas), but you know me. I struggle to do anything to a timetable lately, and I’ve proven time and time again that I’m hardly consistent when it comes to writing. But I’m a captive audience today (aptly, sitting in a hairdresser’s chair having my [in reality] salt and pepper-coloured hair dyed blonde for the umpteenth time). And…

[adelearcherwrites]

Three Lions

Ima’ just leave this here… This wasn’t the blog I was planning to write. ‘TWO blogs in mind?’, I hear you cry. Well, it’s like buses with me. You wait forever and three come along at once. And then an entire year passes by with absolutely nuffink. Or perhaps you were hoping I’d go away again. Who knows? Either way, this blog post seemed a little more pressing. Last Wednesday night was a special…

[adelearcherwrites]

REACH for the Stars (if only)! 💫

Look, this photo doesn’t do the flood justice… Hey! How’ve you been? Personally, I’ve been better, but we’ll get onto that in the next paragraph. My husband, with his intimate knowledge of blog-writing, insists one mustn’t start a post apologising for not writing a post for so long, but when you’ve been AWOL for 329 days (God, that’s nearly a year), I feel you need to at least give a passing nod…

[adelearcherwrites]

Things that make me go ('this is intensely irritating') boom II

Things that make me go (‘this is intensely irritating’) boom II

This is a follow up to a post I did in 2015 – ‘Things that Make Me Go Boom’. And since this is me we’re talking about, there are too many things that drive me up the wall to be crammed into one blog, so I felt it time to do another. I hadhoped to be a calmer and more chilled-out person now that three years have elapsed. But I am afraid that hasn’t happened. I expect I’ll be that same easily…

[adelearcherwrites]

I Ain't Missing You at All

I Ain’t Missing You at All

Well, things are undoubtedly easier: I can go out for a meal if I want to, I can go to the pub (I could, but I can’t be arsed), I can go back to the gym, panic-buying is over, and (fingers crossed) my choir will recommence in September and delay-ridden Zoom meetings will be a distant memory. Hoorah! Life truly has regained some of its normality. Things really have relaxed a fair bit since…

[adelearcherwrites]

Back to Bath: Walking in the Footsteps of Jane

I’m not from around these parts. The West Country, I mean. As you may know, I originate from East London – that’s where I spent the first twenty years of my life. But for the last twenty-five, Bath and its surrounds have been my spiritual (and actual) home. London got too much for me. Even when I was young I knew I was a city girl with a country girl screaming to get out. Not that Bath is the…

[adelearcherwrites]

The Great Outdoors

Roots manoeuvre

There aren’t many positives to this COVID19 outbreak. But if I were to look for one, I guess I would have to admit that the pandemic has forced me to pay attention to my garden. Yes, yes, we are currently allowed to go out for our one daily walk, but since lockdown began, we (and every other person on the planet who possesses a garden) has realised that since none of us are going…

[adelearcherwrites]

Surviving The C-Word

When I originally wrote this blog midweek, I was feeling a little more chipper than I am this morning. But day by day, the C-Word is becoming more destructive. More people are falling sick, more businesses are being forced to close, more people are becoming isolated, more plans are ruined, more people are worrying about their financial future. But you already know this, and since I’m rather too…

[adelearcherwrites]

Change is as Good as a Rest...

Change is as Good as a Rest…

Oddly enough, I’ve just logged into my blog for the first time in ages(we won’t talk about that), and today – on the day of writing this blog – 13th February – is the apparently the fifth anniversary of this blog’s existence. So, yeah…that’s…a thing, I guess. I tried updating the look of the site to mark the occasion, but I just ended up losing all of the menus and widgets (if you know anything…