Category Archives: this & that

Eyes of Faith: Renewed

Posted on June 30, 2019 by Lorna

I’ve reached a milestone of sorts… continue to journey with me over at Eyes of Faith Renewed

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Packing for Pilgrims

Posted on June 22, 2019 by Lorna

It feels only yesterday I was packing for the Camino. (In reality it’s almost ten months ago!) … So what have I learned since then? 1. I travelled light then. I’ll travel light now. ✅ 2. Packing for a short … Continue reading →

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A peregrine adventure in Finland

Posted on May 20, 2019 by Lorna

After midsummer I’m going to be walking the first part of the soon-to-be opened St Olav Waterway, joining Finland to the St Olav Pilgrimage to Trondheim via Sweden. Yesterday, I had the brilliant idea to test out the first half … Continue reading →

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Penutimate Day in Sweden: Glorious Stockholm

Posted on February 26, 2019 by Lorna

I don’t usually go away for the winter ski week (half term) or more accurately we stopped going away on skiing holidays when our kids no longer wanted to go with us! This year though I decided I wanted to … Continue reading →

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Snow moon …

Posted on February 22, 2019 by Lorna

I will probably never view a full moon in the same way again. Being on the Camino and walking by the light of the full moon in the Meseta area of Spain was one of the most amazing things I’ve … Continue reading →

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Refusal of Time

Posted on February 22, 2019 by Lorna

I love the title of this exhibition (at the Bild Museet / museum of arts and design at Umeå University) and the book that accompanied the exhibition was amazing too! The exhibition itself was far too busy for me – … Continue reading →

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Making room

Posted on January 3, 2019 by Lorna

At the end of last year I read a fabulous little book called THE GENTLE ART OF SWEDISH DEATH CLEANING and I’ll get to discuss it at book club next week … What I have been doing (and which I … Continue reading →

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Reflections on a year

Posted on December 28, 2018 by Lorna

I like doing what my friend calls ‘making bookends’ of the year, and inspired by another friend -from whom I borrowed the title of this post – I wanted to take stock of 2018. In November 2017 in an attempt … Continue reading →

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Cherishing “icebugs”

Posted on November 22, 2018 by Lorna

We can’t change the weather conditions but we can do our best to equip ourselves to ‘weather the storms’. For me, at this time of year, that means wrapping up well and dealing with icy conditions. I walk a lot … Continue reading →

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Then and Now and other stories

Posted on November 17, 2018 by Lorna

I went to the Tampere Art Gallery today. The main focus of many of the current exhibitions in Finland at the moment is the Finnish Civil War (1918, the centenary is this year). It’s not something I know much about, … Continue reading →

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