Monday 11 March 2013

Rumblings of the mind



 

As I mentioned before I have a problem with my leg, I am not going to go into details right now, but I sometimes get a little down hearted about the situation.

 

When I was younger, it came as a shock each time, I believed it will be cured and then I was slammed back every time, crying my eyes out, making my mom miserable. I hated it, not that I don’t hate it anymore.

 

With this last hospitalisation, I realised God has send the most wonderful people across my path. Wonderful friends who spend hours next to my bed, even one who came each morning and wrote her thesis there in the hospital.

 

This time even though I believed by losing weight and going to gym to build up the strength of the muscles in my legs, it would stay away and it didn’t I wasn’t so depressed. I took off the necessary time and started going back to the gym earlier this week.

 

Thank you to all my friends who supported me through this time, even to one special friend who came and visited me, even though she hates hospitals.

 

You are all loved





 

 

 

 

Friday 8 March 2013

The Lost Crown



Sarah Miller


This is a brilliant portrayal of the last years of the Russian royal family in the 1916-1918. It is written in the perspective of the grand duchesses (Tatiana, Olga, Maria and Anastasia); the writer, Sarah Miller, keeps your full attention the whole time, and builds up the anticipation. She knows how to capture the emotions of the princesses and pulling you into their world. Following them in their imprisonment, their insecurities, being separated from their parents and in the end their death.


I became interested in the Romanov family when seeing the 1997 Disney film Anastasia, I wanted to find out more about them and if it could be true that one of them escaped. When I read about this book, I knew I must find it and read it. Several searches later I finally found it on Amazon and couldn’t put it down. 




This is worth the read. A Brilliant book