(This is my weekly wrap up, taken from my Newsletter (#50). You can read the full newsletter here, and subscribe above).
Hi! Welcome back. When people show you who they are, listen. This week I am thinking (and writing) about judging others, living authentically, open relationships, male friends, seductive women and ..just for laughs…Meghan Markle . – Eve D.❣️
Week in review…
🌍️ I’ve worked it out. The world is going mad. We thought it might be, in the past, but now I know for sure that it is. Little sense in crying about it. My friends and I have discussed this, and we realise: best we can do is take a deep breath, and look after our tiny village, and ourselves. Even that is not easy, but it is what it is. Gratitude helps.
😡 If you want to know what kind of week it was, know this: On Monday Laura and I were bitching about general stuff, by Wednesday, we were exploring the idea of escaping to a 4-month-long hike through New Zealand, away from everything and everyone, and by Thursday we were exchanging TikToks on how we were going to make impromptu pillows while camping during the hike.
❤️ I’m grateful for my friends. I have great friends, near and far. In times of strife, they listen to me, and they give me a clear perspective and support. I leaned on them heavily this week, and they delivered. Muchos gracias.
🔢 I’m helping a friend’s son with his maths, and I am loving it. I have tutored friends’ kids and my own family members in the past, and it is truly one of the most enjoyable things ever. (I don’t charge anyone, I do it for fun). I have a good understanding of maths (at least at the high school level) and I enjoy helping kids who are “terrible at maths” realise they are actually more than capable of excelling. On the down side, I am in slight horror at how maths is (not) taught in schools these days.
✏️ I am writing. A lot. I resurrected my “work” blog! I say “resurrected”, but what I actually mean is I erased everything that was there, and started from scratch. And I say “work”, but it’s really just stuff I want to write that doesn’t quite fit into this Sneakers and Heels vibe. And I resurrected my actual other-work newsletter too. I put it on hiatus a while back, but now I have it figured out and this week it’s going out to 10,000 people. I’m excited. And I wrote more of my book. The more I write, the more I know myself. I love it. (And yes, I know it seems like a silly time to write more, with AI taking over everything etc, but I will go down kicking and screaming).
👩🍳 There’s a new Kenwood Chef mixer in the family, so to speak, and I am now super inspired to cook/bake. Or maybe just inspired to page through cooking books. My mother was an avid (and excellent) cook, and she had hundreds of cook books. (She rarely used them, though. Cooked mostly impromptu). I spent the week going through Little Kitchen Paris, which is a beautiful collection of accessible French food. Here is a quick recipe I want to try: take a potato, slice it thinly (1.5mm); on a baking sheet, arrange slices into a small square and sprinkle with diced up pear and blue cheese. Put in oven, roast until potatoes are crispy at edges and cheese has melted. Makes one portion. I’d never think of mixing potato, pear and blue cheese but it’s worth a shot!
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