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17. ‘The Christmas Banquet’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne
GIFT & PRIZE DAY! Santa Express arrived with gifts from home and left with gifts for home. I am alone at the time of writing and haven’t...

Bea Konyves
Dec 17, 20211 min read


16. ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas’ by Clement Clarke Moore
Not the night before Christmas (yet), but the day before we send the gifts to our friends and family far, far away. This means some...

Bea Konyves
Dec 16, 20211 min read


15. ‘Where Love Is, There God Is Also’ by Leo Tolstoi
I find it fascinating how some days your batteries are simply low and whatever you do, your charging cable isn’t in the right place. I...

Bea Konyves
Dec 15, 20211 min read


14. ‘The Beggar Boy at Christ’s Christmas Tree’ by Fyodor Dostoevsky
From webinars to coffee, to reading funding guides and poetry, to uni - I have all sorts of things to do. It’s the week before Christmas...

Bea Konyves
Dec 14, 20211 min read


13. ‘The Dead’ by James Joyce
What a beautiful Monday! Yes, I have lots of work to do, but I woke up full of energy and one by one all sorts of tasks on my to-do list...

Bea Konyves
Dec 13, 20211 min read


12. ‘Christmas Eve’ by Washington Irving
Christmas is less than two weeks away. Santa Express will be picking up gifts from our place by the end of next week, so as part of...

Bea Konyves
Dec 12, 20211 min read


11. ‘Nutcracker and Mouse King’ by E.T.A. Hoffmann
Christmas may be near, but I still have to work on my dissertation so today I finally went back to the British Library. It was a very...

Bea Konyves
Dec 11, 20211 min read


10. ‘What Christmas is as We Grow Older’ by Charles Dickens
Four years ago I was awarded ‘Volunteer of the Year’ in my county (Maramureș). I made myself a promise then, and I’m pretty sure past-me...

Bea Konyves
Dec 10, 20211 min read


9. ‘A Letter from Santa Claus' by Mark Twain
I finished the previous book on Tuesday on the bus and started Eimear McBride’s ‘A Girl is a Half-formed Thing’ right away. It’s a...

Bea Konyves
Dec 9, 20211 min read


CoNLucraTin - The FIRST National Youth Work Convention in Romania
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Bea Konyves
Dec 9, 20211 min read


8. ‘The Little Match Girl’ by Hans Christian Andersen
Today was a very nice day, but this is exactly why I won’t tell you much about it. Instead, I would like you to think about today’s...

Bea Konyves
Dec 8, 20211 min read


7. ‘The Tailor of Gloucester’ by Beatrix Potter
It was a long day today. I’ll leave you with a fun story. ‘The Tailor of Gloucester’ by Beatrix Potter I always wanted to read something...

Bea Konyves
Dec 7, 20211 min read


6.‘The Burglar’s Christmas’ by Willa Cather
A rainy Monday. Yesterday we went for a Festive evening walk through Maryon Park at Sparkle in the Park. My overthinking self has been...

Bea Konyves
Dec 6, 20211 min read


5. ‘The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle’ by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The 5th of December is International Volunteer Day and also in Romanian tradition, tonight Saint Nicholas will visit you and brings...

Bea Konyves
Dec 5, 20211 min read


4. “The Other Wise Man” by Henry van Dyke
I present to you… Rain-Duck in the role of The Other Wise Man. As well as a collection of short stories I started reading last night and...

Bea Konyves
Dec 4, 20211 min read


3. ‘A Christmas Tree’ by Charles Dickens
I got to uni a little earlier today and went on a Christmas Tree hunt for today’s Muddy Shoes. I found this pretty conifer right outside...

Bea Konyves
Dec 3, 20211 min read


2. ‘The Elves and the Shoemaker’ by The Brothers Grimm
It is a busy Thursday, as most Thursdays are for me. I stayed inside all day and worked on all sorts of things, listening to my 2021...

Bea Konyves
Dec 2, 20211 min read


1. ‘The Gift of the Magi’ by O. Henry
artFix Woolwich is quite Christmassy today as I start the December special posts. Until the 25th, my daily #MuddyShoes will be all...

Bea Konyves
Dec 1, 20211 min read


S.O.S. Romanian Literature
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Bea Konyves
Dec 1, 20211 min read


Sometimes all you need to get started with work is a hot beverage and a piece of cake
I had many random things to do today. Work, uni, a bit of blogging, and also more prep to apply for the MA. I needed fuel to get through...

Bea Konyves
Nov 30, 20211 min read
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