I was reviewing my Christmas presents and am especially pleased with the gifts for my beautiful brace of goddaughters: these for Evie
and these for Cecily.
(They are 3 and 1 respectively, and not very interested in reading blogs, so I think I’m quite safe in publishing these pics. There are other book-and-knitted-thing combos that I can’t [...]
Yesterday was World Book Night. It was one of those things that I was all enthusiastic about to start with. But the more I thought about it, and the more I read about it from people who’d given it more thought than me (especially The Guardian, Nicola Morgan, and The Guardian again), and the more I [...]
The Bah! Tuesday Book Review can’t come to the blog right now
At the weekend, we had some bookcases installed. (Not as easy as you’d think as there isn’t a right angle in this house and everything had to be scribed to fit.) The shelves themselves will arrive on Friday – they are being cut to [...]