I was going to write this post yesterday, but I’d reached a point in an essay draft where I could see the end was closer than I realised and not some far off wish. With some crafty paragraph rearranging and a few stitch-together sentences, maybe I could get it finished. (And I did. Yay!) Also,…
I tipped the last of my day moisturiser onto the palm of my hand yesterday morning. Smearing this SPF 15 cream into my face has been routine for almost two decades, part of whatever you could say constitutes a brief ‘beauty regime’. I thought to myself, oh no, as my skin was still quite dry. Then I…
Read / February 28th, 2020
I blink and another month is over. I was planning on writing a separate, longer post to explain this absence, but also there’s no time like now. It’s also related to my reading (I feel like everything about me feeds back into that point!). While I’m only featuring three titles on this list, I’ve barely…
Read / January 31st, 2020
Hello and welcome back for 2020! Earlier I waved my children back to school and then I got to thinking about the day and date and realised – oh! I’d better do my reading check-in here on the blog! There is a fair bit to cover – and these titles are just a selection of…
Hoi An Another year (almost) over, can you believe it? Nope, me either. Which means, among other things, it’s time for my annual ‘year that was’ recap – full of the good, bad and in-between. Let’s get started and I’ll go into more detail. As ever, I’ll break this down into categories. Work This is…
Read / December 12th, 2019
Previous posts in this Christmas recommendation series include picture books, junior books, middle-grade books, cookbooks and fiction. Home Work – A Memoir of My Hollywood Years by Julie Andrews “With this second memoir, Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years, Andrews picks up the story with her arrival in Hollywood and her phenomenal rise to fame in her earliest films–Mary…
Read / December 10th, 2019
Previous posts in this Christmas recommendation series include picture books, junior books, middle-grade books and cookbooks. Love is Strong as Death – Poems chosen by Paul Kelly by Paul Kelly You should’ve seen me sit up in my chair when I first heard word about this book coming out. Yes, I said. Take my money. Then when I went to…
Read / December 5th, 2019
Previous posts in this Christmas book recommendation series include picture books, junior and middle-grade books (as well as cookbooks). As ever, these recommendations are fluid, meaning they could suit older or younger readers depending on their tastes or capabilities. Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo Here is the synopsis from the publisher’s website: “Alex Stern is the…
Read / December 3rd, 2019
Previous posts in this Christmas recommendation series include picture books, junior books, and middle-grade books. We have one 100% vegetarian, one most-of-the-time vegetarian (me) and two whatever’s-on-offer-within-reason eaters in the household. This means our home-cooked meals are mostly vegetarian and have been for some time now. So I’m always on the lookout for new cookbooks because…
