Earth from the Air

I stumbled across this exhibition outside the Forum today, which stretches down past City Hall as well. Our earth is so impressve and beautiful. Well worth a visit I think, it's there until 29 April.

Book bag bargain

Norfolk Libraries are selling these excellent book bags for £1 each, made out of biodegradable material. Proper bargain and strong enough and big enough to carry home books and groceries!

Sharing faith

As we make an effort to spend time discussing our marriage book, another thing Ben and I have been thinking about is how we can share our spirituality with each other. At the moment we're trying to pray together every so often which is nice, but I don't think we do it often enough to build up any kind of intimacy between us. If we leave it too long I begin to get a complex about praying aloud and it makes it such a huge chore rather than being anything meaningful that brings us together.

A question mainly for couples, but anyone can comment - how do you share your faith with each other? Is it something important in a relationship and what works for you?

Work

I've applied for a job as Communications Consultant at Norwich Union. After several months of half-heartedly job hunting for something that isn't as formulaic and process based as my current job, I've stumbled across this amazing opportunity to move up a level and get into a job that will teach me skills in tone of voice, 'group writing standards' (which make everything NU produces look the same), designing communications to go out to customers and may give me a chance to use my proofreading skills. (And how cool does the job title sound compared to Customer Services Representative?!!)

I'm not sure if I'm aiming too high but it's the first job I've come across that excites me, so Im hoping I get through to interview stage at least. The closing deadline has just been extended to the beginning of April though, so a while to wait yet.

More chick lit

I know one of my resolutions this year was to read more quality books and less chick lit, but it's not really happening.

I read the first quarter or so of On Beauty by Zadie Smith and liked it, but it seemed too engrossed in a realm of academia to be a proper story so I didn't read the rest. I've also started and stopped I Know why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, which was recommended to me in sixth form while reading Beloved by Toni Morrison. Maybe I just don't get on with black fiction - their history as a people and the colour of their culture (colour as in the sights, sounds, tastes) is enticing, interesting, admirable but it's so hard to read!

I just wizzed through Love Rules by Freya North and loved it. It did make me think, but I realised I've gone straight back in to chick lit because it's easy. Grr.

I think I'll start my quest again in some middle ground, maybe a few books in the realms of Memoirs of a Geisha... or maybe just back to chick lit from the 18th century, I haven't read Sense and Sensibility yet...

I'm living...

... in a constant state of excitement these days, I love it!

Wedding update

Our plans are finally starting to take shape for the big day. We've also booked our honeymoon, a lot closer to home than originally planned but hopefully a tenth of the stress of travelling. A few days in the middle of the countryside with absolutely nothing to do will be just what we need.

The invitations have been designed and are in the middle of production - at the dining room table!

A jazz band has been sourced, the flower arrangements made (does anyone know where I can get about 150 roses from for a reasonable price?) And another poem discovered - I'm looking forward to finalising ceremony details.


HAD I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

WB Yeats

I stumbled across the last two lines in a book I'm reading and thought how beautifully it captures the vulnerability of loving someone.

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It's inexcusable to not post for so long, but the longer I leave it the more I think no one reads anyway! But I like writing, so there!