Finding the new in the everyday
I've only got a few days left of my new thing challenge, and although the world looks a little different than it did 12 months ago when I was getting ready to start, I still feel very fortunate and happy that I was able to continue this challenge right throughout the year. I'll be honest,… Continue reading The Future
I've enjoyed many new skills I've learned this year, but some of the biggest surprise hits have been my new circus abilities: not only can I juggle, I can also spin plates, and make balloon animals too. Today, in my continued efforts to try clown school from the comfort of my living room, I learned… Continue reading Day 337 – Learned to Mime
Throughout the summer, Clean FFM has been running regular events for the community to help pick-up litter in different rubbish hot-spots around the city. Since March, I've definitely noticed an increase in bottles and picnic remains everywhere. It got so bad in the city in July that Clean FFM made a point by providing a… Continue reading Day 263 – Clean-up Frankfurt
I think it's probably no surprise that food is a big passion of mine. I love reading recipes, planning out what I'll eat for the week (bonus - this helps reduce food waste and the shopping bill too!) and getting creative in the kitchen. If I'm going out to eat I also like to have… Continue reading Day 259 – Let Someone Else Order
I'd only heard of Mikado in relation to long thin biscuit sticks, coated in chocolate, based on the Japanese Pocky – I'd no idea it was a game until I came upon a cheap set in a local shop. Intrigued, I decided to pick it up and try it out for today's new thing. I… Continue reading Day 179 – Played Mikado
This could be the quickest new thing I've done so far! I saw a video a while ago showing somebody doing this and it looked so cool. https://youtu.be/uz6rjbw0ZA0 I took one of my husband's t-shirts and gave it a go. The first time I ended up a bit tangled up, but after that I had… Continue reading Day 172 – Folded a t-shirt in 2 seconds
Normally I am quite well organised with my new things, I usually plan out two weeks at a time, and rearrange as and when spontaneous things come up, but today, I don’t know what happened - it was the closest I’d come to not completing anything new at all. I had a full and busy… Continue reading Day 171 – Hand Shadow Puppets
Before normal life started to shut down, I tried to stay away from having anything food-related as one of my new things. As someone who already actively looked for new foods to eat and make, it felt a little too easy. That's changed over the past four months. My new adventures had to be limited… Continue reading Day 166 – Trifle
I'm very lucky to have family and friends support my challenge, suggesting new things here and there that I wouldn't have thought of. Sometimes, however, somebody suggests something that I've never even heard of. The kalimba, sometimes called a thumb piano, is an African instrument consisting of a wooden block with steel keys on the… Continue reading Day 155 – Kalimba
Like millions of others around the world, I was glued to the screen watching the launch of the SpaceX rocket and the beginning of its journey towards the International Space Station. There's something about space travel that creates a childlike excitement in us: so fascinating and unknown that it feels almost unreal that these astronauts… Continue reading Day 152 – SpaceX Simulation
New Day, New Thing 