Ironically the bigger room was mostly because it had a larger shower room (which was quite a waste of space really) - if the actual bedroom was bigger, then it would've felt like more value for money! Sometimes it's nice to take a break from hobbies though, as otherwise you can just get bored / stuck on particular bits!

Young adult books are usually what I go for - they're not full of bad language (which always seems like poor writing.... can authors not think of anything else for their characters to say?!), and they aren't as gritty as a lot of adult books can be :D

That seems rather complicated having two different versions of Norwegian - is Bokmål more formal than nynorsk?

In German lessons we had a bit of Swedish (I think) to read, and it was quite surprising how much we could figure out, as it was so similar to German. I will admit that I pronounced most of the French words with an English accent, so they didn't ever end up sounding 'right'! A lot of English words aren't pronounced the way you'd expect them to be when you see them written down.... it must be quite challenging to learn English as a second language!

How are you doing? Things have been all iver the place here lol.

It's not cheap - about 1,600 pounds for a week (depending on the size of the room you have - this time I had a bigger room, so it was more expensive)! One of the staff members told me she'd found some more challenging jigsaw puzzles in the basement (where they store everything), so I was able to work through 4 of those laughs Those jigsaw puzzles are only 250 pieces, but there's straight-sided pieces that aren't an outside edge, so you have to work on it in a different way to normal ;)

There's so long between each book that it's easy to forget which character is which (or what happened in the first book) otherwise ;)

Yeah, Welsh is completely different to English - I started trying to learn it, then gave up 😊 even the pronunciation was hard, as there's sounds in Welsh that you don't really get in English ;) At one point there was a roadworks sign in the city centre here which (for some reason) also had the text in Welsh, even though we're not that close to the border!

I've forgotten the majority of the French and German I'd learnt - I never had a reason to use either language after I left school, so it's mostly disappeared from my head now :P but sometimes if I see a basic sentence in German I can figure out what it says ;)

That still seems strange to me, given how massive Amazon is (and how much they want to take over things, in having grocery stores as well as being online!), but maybe they do just look and think "too tiny" o.O

It was a good stay at the respite place, although I could've done with a longer break if I'm honest!

You’re welcome!! I had fun picking things out for you :D

Your snail mail birthday present hasn’t been forgotten about - I wasn’t able to get it in the post before I went on my respite break, so hopefully that will be able to be packaged up soon! 😊