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One of the surprising things I have discovered on Twitter is the range of writing challenges that are hosted there. It’s been refreshing to be forced to think within the very restricting confines of 140 characters, and it has been a lot of fun to join in with some of these exercises. In particular I
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“Hey, I hear you’ll be joining us on Bornholm!” The winter had just ended and summer still seemed like a very long way off. Helle, however, was already organised and full of enthusiastic plans. “You should join Lars and I for the island run” she enthused. “Island run?” “Yes, it’s a five day event. Around
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We arrived when summer was in full bloom, stepping into the garden of the old farmhouse mid-afternoon, to find it abundant and ripe with life. Two enormous cherry trees greeted us as they swayed in the breeze, the weight of the fruit on the branches, causing them to bow and bend and sometimes snap. A
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I am lucky enough to live by a river. From my window, a wide expanse of water, some five hundred metres wide, stretches from shore to shore. It’s a working river, busy with barges laden with goods heading out towards the Rhine. Sailboats pass through here on their way to the small havens that lie
