Hook Was an Old Eton Man

I could hardly believe when I checked how much of the year has gone by since I last posted! Time flies by when you're having fun! We've had lots of adventures and shenanigans and, when I get a minute, I'll come back and tell some stories around the camp-fire, but I just wanted to mention …

Book Review: Dragonflight

Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey is the first novel written in the series relating to the planet of Pern, written in 1968, but I did not realise that it is quite far along in the Pern chronology. I chose to read it firstly because it was at the top of my fiction pile, secondly because I …

Pawn of Prophecy

The ME/cfs Book club challenged us to read a book we already read, so I just read this again after 20-ish years, and it's still good! I love David Eddings' style and the way he weaves all the strands together. But I'm surprised I didn't go on to read the rest of the series, as …

Searching the Scriptures: A Feminist Introduction

This doesn't quite qualify as a book review as it is a book that I read nearly 20 years ago, but I lent it to a friend some years ago and despite my best efforts, did not receive it back, so I decided to treat myself to a new copy. Searching the Scriptures: A Feminist …

Read 52: What week are we in?!

I am trying to catch up - I'm very naughty for tending to take on far too much and then finding that it is in fact too much which can lead to a complete crash and ending up achieving nothing! In addition to my Read52 commitment, I started the Bible in 90 Days on February …

Book Review: Dyslexia-friendly Teacher’s Toolkit

I had picked up the "The Dyslexia-Friendly Teacher's Toolkit: Strategies for Teaching Students 3-18" once or twice and skimmed through it in the bookshop and had concluded from that brief look that there wouldn't be much relevent for home educators and that most of the strategies are classroom-based. That is true, but I was pleasantly …