Tag: books

Cancer Free Friday: full circle

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 [...]

Offsetting World Book Night

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 [...]

After the beep

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 [...]