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 …

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 …

Book Review: The Guernsey Literary Society and Potato Peel Pie Society

The Guernsey Literary Society and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows “That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive …

Which Jane Austen Heroine Are You?

I do have some more serious posts that I'm working on (or rather, in fact which are just rumbling about my brain) but in the meantime, I found this fun quiz on one of my old blogs and thought I would share 🙂 I am Elizabeth Bennet! Take the Jane Austen Character Quiz here! I …

Plans for September

After going to and fro in my mind over what to do - follow the national curriculum more closely with a view to doing GCSEs? Concede defeat over the severe dyslexia and put them all in school (it was a serious consideration, but none of us want to go that route), or go back to …

Picture Book Reading Challenge

I've just heard about this lovely challenge: to read 300 picture books to your children, in a year. Since we are starting in February, our allocation is reduced to 275. It's only '11 books per fortnight', so that seems fairly manageable. http://childledchaos.me.uk/2013/12/31/picture-book-reading-challenge-2014/ I used to have pages on Goodreads, Shelfari, and Library Thing (back when …