Helmsley is a small market town in North Yorkshire that has everything you need for the perfect day out or weekend trip. It has lovely restaurants, shops, a fabulous spa, as well as plenty of interesting things to go and visit including a castle and an art gallery. But be warned, Helmsley may wake upContinue reading “Helmsley: Something for Everyone”
Author Archives: luggageandscribble
Book Review: Unsettled Ground, by Claire Fuller
The morning sky lightens, and snow falls on the cottage. It falls on the thatch, concealing the moss and the mouse damage, smoothing out the undulations, filling in the hollows and slips, melting where it touches the bricks of the chimney…. The worries of seventy years – the money, the infidelity, the small deceits –Continue reading “Book Review: Unsettled Ground, by Claire Fuller”
Book Review: Silver Sparrow, by Tayari Jones
James sighed and bounced me on his lap a little bit. “What happens in my life, in my world, doesn’t have anything to do with you. You can’t tell your teacher that your daddy has another wife. You can’t tell your teacher that my name is James Witherspoon. Atlanta ain’t nothing but a country town,Continue reading “Book Review: Silver Sparrow, by Tayari Jones”
Book Review: Writers & Lovers, by Lily King
All problems with writing and performing come from fear. Fear of exposure, fear of weakness, fear of lack of talent, fear of looking like a fool for trying, for even thinking you could write in the first place. It’s all fear. If we didn’t have fear, imagine the creativity in the world. Fear holds usContinue reading “Book Review: Writers & Lovers, by Lily King”
Laos and Parts Unknown
As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life – and travel – leaves marks on you. Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown. Anthony Bourdain Like a lot of people, I imagine in this pandemic, IContinue reading “Laos and Parts Unknown”
Edinburgh: Fringe and Blossom
It was August 2013. The now disgraced ‘Blurred Lines’ had been number one in the charts for what felt like a decade and I was in the back of the car, stuffed in by my belongings, on the way to Edinburgh to start my Masters in American History. As I watched my parents drive away,Continue reading “Edinburgh: Fringe and Blossom”
Book Review: A Half-Baked Idea, by Olivia Potts
This is book is so special to me in ways that I can’t really describe. In it Olivia Potts describes the pain of losing her mother, but also finding hope through baking. It’s no surprise that death changes you. It happens in glaringly obvious ways, like weight change or ill health… For others, death bringsContinue reading “Book Review: A Half-Baked Idea, by Olivia Potts”
One Month Review
Please don’t let fear be the thing that stops you from pursuing your passions. Do you know what is even more scary than failure? Inaction. If you try and fail, you’ll survive, but if you never even dare to take that step, then you’ll never know what you could have achieved. Inaction is the biggestContinue reading “One Month Review”
Book Review: Ghosts, by Dolly Alderton
‘I got ghosted last week.’ ‘What does that mean?’ ‘It’s when a person just stops speaking to you instead of having a break-up conversation.’ ‘Why’s it called ghosting?’ ‘Number of schools of thought,’ she said, with the command of an academic. ‘Mostly commonly, it is thought to have come from the idea that you areContinue reading “Book Review: Ghosts, by Dolly Alderton”
Book Review: The Sound Mirror, by Heidi James
All the knowing and wisdom, the habits and curses. Superstitions and protections, charms and jinxes. The Sound Mirror “She is going to kill her mother today.” I’ll be honest, I read the opening sentence and considered putting the book straight back down again. I had just finished another book that focussed on complicated mother-daughter relationshipsContinue reading “Book Review: The Sound Mirror, by Heidi James”
Luggage & Scribble 