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A Tale of Tonsillitis Gone Rogue!

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  Friday morning, woke up. Sore throat, oh, it’s tonsillitis! But nothing unknown, this type of throat disease would descend upon me once a year, or every two; and somehow the nostalgia of drinking Lucozade and lying on the sofa as a child in recovery would come back… I booked a doctor’s appointment, but honestly exhaustion came over me and my new place is now 40 mins away from my GP with 3 changes on public transport. I hoped that it was viral, decided I didn’t have it in me to go the doctor’s and instead tried to sleep it off. Oh and in the afternoon, sent Philipp off to the pharmacy across the road to try and manage the situation, 40 euros (eek) on throat spray, kind to the stomach throat lozenges, ibuprofen etc. Friday night, immense pain. I consulted an NHS website to figure out how many paracetamol and ibuprofen I could take in combination to cover the pain. Six AM was the relief time, as I could finally take an anti-inflammatory again alongside eating. I looked at my ton...
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Hope (in the year 2021/22)

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I’ve been thinking a lot about ‘hope’ recently… ‘Faith shows the reality of what we hope for; it is the evidence of things we cannot see. (Hebrews 11:1 NLT)                During the days of the turn of the New Year, it’s become a tradition for myself, and several uni friends, to get together and go away somewhere for a few days; whether it be Norfolk, Vienna, Edinburgh, Lincoln usw… but this year, only a few of the crew were able to make it in the end, but we still connected via Zoom on New Year’s eve to still “gather” and have a little catch-up. Of course, reflections on the current pandemic came into conversation and at one point someone mentioned the word, “hope”. One friend retorted, “I don’t know if I like/trust the word ‘hope’ anymore!’ Off the cuff, I found myself saying, “Well it depends what you put your hope in doesn’t it…” We all took a moment to ponder this thought. ‘Hope anchors the soul…’ (Hebrews 6:19). We are not living in a...
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Push to Reset the World: a Solo Day Trip to Traunsee

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  Reset button. *pressed* My local pedestrian crossing contains the sticker, as pictured: “PUSH TO RESET THE WORLD”. The first time I saw it, it really made me smile, especially after pressing the button to cross the world… I mean road! ;) Then corona and lockdown happened, and upon noticing this sticker again, I thought, wow, no truer statement…! We can do what we can do, social distancing, following government guidelines, measures etc… But what do we do with the world inside us, when it’s struggling. When your “new normal” is constantly changing and you need to press that reset button continuously.  It’s a good thing to think about what helps our souls be well. What do we need? What is helpful right now, within our limitations? Each summer, I usually spend a few weeks back in the motherland, the UK: resting, recuperating from the end of another academic year (I work in a school), seeing family and enjoying the relief of cooler weather and the sea air.  We decided conjoi...
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