While my adult children are home over the summer, they've been perhaps inadvertently expanding my viewing selections. So I've apparently...

I freely admit that I'm a badge fiend - I like having badges on my camp blanket as a reminder of places I've been and things I've done....

Tove Jansson has long been an iconic author to me. I grew up with Moominvalley and its various inhabitants as near neighbours in my...

It's many years since I last watched Ghost, but as my daughter is working her way through a list of films she wants to watch, this was...

I have been practicing my Swedish somewhat sporadically through much of my adult life, but over the past 15 years or so have worked...

My daughter has recently set out a (long) list of films she wants to watch, and some are on my list, so that's encouraged me to make a...

I don't know about anyone else, but to me 'rebellion' has quite negative connotations. We talk about rebellious children, refusing to...

Ever since I was small, I've known of the Sami people in Sweden; I have a dim memory of visiting 'Lappstaden', the Sami village in...

I read the review on the BMJ blog as I thought it would be interesting to get a ’medical’ perspective on the book. Overall I wasn’t...

As I was looking at some of the 'Self-Aware Rebel' badges, the tagline for My Powers caught my eye: Be true to yourself. Anyone who has...

Having been put off camping by the one guide camp I attended in my youth (sorry!), I was eventually persuaded to try it again once our...

Having admitted my failure to look after my indoor plants as well as I should (and indeed to keep my little chilli alive!), I decided it...

I happily admit that although I enjoy gardens and having a nice outdoor space, I'm really not a keen gardener at all. I do like indoor...

Continuing the Detective badge (not one I'd originally thought I as likely to do!), I've read up about blood pattern analysis, blood...

...or, Detective badge part 1 (clauses 5, 7) Given the number of crime/detective books I've read in recent years, and my enjoyment of all...

Having grown up knowing a few essential phrases of Swedish for basic survival when meeting up with family, I've spent much of my adult...

Like many people, of my generation, I grew up with a few board games at home - Ludo, Monopoly, chess and draughts etc. We had a couple of...

Like so many others, my childhood imaginings about the freedom of adult life turned out to be far from the truth. Instead of indulging...

I've always enjoyed all sorts of puzzles - from jigsaws to crosswords, word searches, logic problems. When I was young, before family...

I’ve been a keen - albeit decidedly unskilled - photographer for many years, and developed a limited amount of knowledge when I bought my...