The little white attic

After the work event, I explored a bit of Washington, DC and saw a bit of Northern California. A bit of the east and a bit of the west.  In ...

Me wearing a Thai traditional dress.  Literature  In terms of reading, this has been a fantastic year. The main highlight was my discovery o...

  Me doing the Mahanakhon skywalk.  I have just returned from my work trips to Jakarta and Bangkok.  It was strange, in a way, to be back in...

Over the past few months, I’ve been getting more properly into coffee, with my French press. As suggested by the title, I was writing down m...

Lâu lâu viết tiếng Việt trên blog, mặc dù mỳnh chắc có khoảng 2 độc giả người Việt (đặc biệt nhé!).  Mời bà con xem video mỳnh edit về York,...

There was a time when Facebook was fun. You and your friends posted things, you had conversations. Then slowly it became worse, became a pla...

Today is meaningful for two reasons. One, it’s Shakespeare Day. Two, it’s 16 years since my mum and I moved to Norway (which means that I ha...

There was a time when I, whenever ill, wondered if it’s some sort of divine punishment. Now that I’m sick the third time this winter, I see ...

 Some photos of me at Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire, England. 

The loveliest person in the world gave me this present for my birthday! Look!  (I am at this moment reading Vladimir Nabokov's Lectures ...

As Blogger would make you sign in to verify your age, I have decided to publish the list on Google Docs.  Enjoy! 

1/ As other sufferers would understand, once you have caught the Shakespeare bug, it’s incurable—you read the plays and listen to audio reco...

It was actually 13/2/2022 that marked 10 years of The little white attic , but I’ve been so busy that I forgot (silly, that’s me).  Lots of ...

1/ The Book Shopper: Buys more than reads. Tweets photos of book posts and book hauls, but doesn’t say much about books. Loves book sales, e...

After the Patreon experiment, I have decided to go on blogging as usual.  I have deactivated my Twitter account (which is set to be permanen...

My video of this year's Light Night in Leeds, the largest annual arts and light festival in the UK.  Set the quality to 1080p and enjoy!...

This is one of those days when I’m asking myself: why do I blog? I’ve had this blog for about 8 years now, and been in the blog world for ov...

I’m going to start by saying that, because of my upbringing, I have a rather strong dislike of people, especially women, who make stupid dec...

Happy New Year, everyone! New decade (go away pedants) so it's time to dig out my favourite New Year song:  (In Vietnam, at least t...