Just a note to say hello...

Hello, and thankyou for reading my blog! (even if you are just here for a passing visit/because you got lost/looking for something else/because I have harassed you into taking a look!) This blog really only exists because I love to write, and talking/writing is how I process and make sense of things…I have been writing stuff for years even though nobody has ever really read it, but I have set this blog up because 1) I have become slightly addicted to reading other peoples' blogs and wanted my own, and 2) because they have helped me see things differently, and I want to do the same! I hope at least some of what I've written does this for you.

From July 2015, this blog is taking a bit of a break from its usual state, and becoming a travel blog (something I never thought I, Katie Watson, would ever write, but there we go) as I embark on my adventures across the Channel, and go and study in Brittany, France as part of my degree. I hope it helps any of you who are reading it whilst planning your own year abroad, and that the rest of you reading just for the entertainment factor are suitably amused by my attempts to understand the French mode de vie!

My Favourite Quotes and Verses

When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water - Eleanor Roosevelt

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest - C S Lewis

When love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes heaven drowsy with the harmony - William Shakespeare, Love's Labours Lost

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 - W B Yeats, He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

(Sir Richard: "I'm leaving in the morning Lady Grantham I doubt we'll meet again.")
Do you promise? - Dowager Countess of Grantham, Downton Abbey

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else - C S Lewis

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams - Dr. Seuss

If music be the food of love play on - William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you - A A Milne, Winnie-The-Pooh

Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself…" - C S Lewis, The Four Loves

(Mrs Crawley: "I take that as a compliment.")
I must've said it wrong - Dowager Countess of Grantham, Downton Abbey

Anyone can tell a woman she’s beautiful; making her believe it, is where the genius lies - The Musketeers, TV series

("If you were my husband, I'd poison your coffee.")
If you were my wife, I'd drink it - Winston Churchill

Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady - Grace Kelly

If you don't like where you are, move. You are not a tree - Anon.

A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms - Anon.

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying 'I will try again tomorrow' - Anon.

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colours. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving - Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky


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