Karina

I have moved furniture around, tried and failed to repair my coffee maker (but impressed by how much I assembled and reassembled), met a friend for a drink, been out with Chris for coffee, done two washes … it’s now 5.25pm and neither my blog, my chapter or work for my job tomorrow have been […]

I stenoed chapter 18 more than 12 hours ago.  I got up and finished writing the chapter before I even had the time to congratulate myself on my brilliance.  Chapter 18’s subject matter, a restaurant, came to me this morning and wasn’t one of the original “patches”.  The pile of Indian cookery books being sorted

I have an ambitious To Do List to get through today, including this post and chapter 16.  Chapter 16 is about an old school science book that I used as a diary, “Karina’s Travel Escapades Around Europe with Ruth”.  With the exception of five empty pages, the exercise book is full of my fairly small

Mix tapes.  I think everyone who has ever made or received a mix tape will have happy memories of them.  Having both made and received mix tapes, however great and quick and easy a modern digital playlist is, the digital version will never hold the magic of a cassette tape with varied-quality recordings, the occasional