Rebecca E Brown

Rebecca E Brown

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Me, my life, and my family

Recontextualising Hamilton: a literary linguistic perspective

November 10, 2020

Unless you’ve been under a rock lately, or you’re Donald Trump, you are already aware that Joe Biden has won the 2020 US Presidential Election,

The year I turn forty

June 29, 2020

Ten years ago, I wrote a post about turning thirty. Ten years?! It seems like no time at all… in some ways. In others, I

Truth through denial

June 20, 2020

No secret, I’m pretty obsessed with musicals, and I’m not ashamed of it. A few years ago, I did a couple of posts (eg this

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Magical @pinchofnom: turned sweet potatoes into ri

Magical @pinchofnom: turned sweet potatoes into rich, fudgy brownies and the kids had no clue...

New uni reading arrived today. First time I've had

New uni reading arrived today. First time I've had something from the EU with a customs declaration.

Do you wanna build a snowman...

Do you wanna build a snowman...

Playing an escape room game Daniel got from Santa.

Playing an escape room game Daniel got from Santa. With a chocolate orange - as brain food, obvs...

Filo fish pie for tea (thank you @pinchofnom ). Fe

Filo fish pie for tea (thank you @pinchofnom ). Felt a little bad that because the kids don't like it they had fishfingers and chips. Not REALLY bad though...

TFW it's the first day of school but you still wan

TFW it's the first day of school but you still want to be surrounded by your Christmas presents...

Coffee in the mug Emily designed for me 😍

Coffee in the mug Emily designed for me 😍

Best of 2020 😀

Best of 2020 :D

Happy new year to everyone! Let's hope 2021 is ful

Happy new year to everyone! Let's hope 2021 is full of good things and happier times.

Lose yourself in the music, the moment, you own it

Lose yourself in the music, the moment, you own it...

Emily's project with her new Cricut Maker - decora

Emily's project with her new Cricut Maker - decorating glasses and cups!

The family getting stuck into their christmas pres

The family getting stuck into their christmas presents 🤩

My Christmas dinner prep. Every year I sit down an

My Christmas dinner prep. Every year I sit down and work all my timings out, then set a multitude of alarms on my phone and blu tack the written plans to kitchen cupboard doors. Here is my file that is slowly building up an archive of ten years of plans. One day my children will groan when I proudly hand it on to them, before they go on to ignore it and do it all their own way.

We usually have a night out on Christmas Eve Eve,

We usually have a night out on Christmas Eve Eve, but for obvious reasons that's on ice this year! So we've created our own - signage (and matching menus whipped up by Daniel), mixed starter, home made doner kebab, and chocolate & toffee opera cake. Now we're having a cosy night watching The Christmas Chronicles.

Ok this is too cute. Emily is getting mega excited

Ok this is too cute. Emily is getting mega excited... 😍

Wrapping presents for Beloved Husband ☺️🎄🌟🎅

Of all the tricks I've learned in wrapping present

Of all the tricks I've learned in wrapping presents, it took me till just a couple of years ago to work out that the hole on a sellotape dispenser lets you hold it securely on your thumb so you can press down the join and pull off a piece of tape in one movement. Wish I'd figured that one out thirty years ago! 😀

WOW. One year ago today... @uonenglish

WOW. One year ago today...
@uonenglish

While lots of the UK seems to be covered in snow,

While lots of the UK seems to be covered in snow, Durham seems to stuck in summer. I'm just working on my laptop on the bed, hear a flapping noise above me, and there's this large butterfly fluttering around the lightbulb. I have no idea where it's come from but surely this is worthy of the opening scene of a climate-change disaster movie?

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