Last Wednesday night, I spoke about my … well, I’d say ‘nerves’ about the digital age of books. I wondered aloud about what might happen to our bookshops and libraries; how they might be affected; on a business level, certainly, but my concern was on a cultural, even personal, level. For me, nothing compares to…
“If you overcook crème brûlée does it turn into fudge?” Now I’m pretty sure if you overcook crème brûlée it could turn into a number of things – but fudge wouldn’t be one of them. Then again, I’ve been wrong before!
Adam cleaned our bathroom yesterday. And if that’s all the present I get on this day celebrating spending and commercialism special occasion, I’ll be happy. More than happy. (Although if you want to cook dinner, dear, you won’t hear any objections on my part…) Happy Valentine’s Day everybody.
Riley sees little point in those balance bikes for children. Have you seen them? The ones without pedals? We borrowed one from the toy library this week so he could try it, but the borrowing was done with less than a want on his part, and more by coercion on ours. I daresay I was…
Sorry, I didn’t take any more once I got inside. I was planning to, but the time got away.
It’s a shave off 10pm, and I’ve just walked through the door from my big afternoon of blog-workshopping and then the panel talk with Angela Meyer and Louise Swinn from Sleepers Publishing. Then I’ve come here to do this: see, that’s proof of commitment if ever there was one, don’t you think?! I had a…
He LOVES your child-sized trolleys.
This ‘what am I reading?’ post ought to have been easy enough. I’ve done many, many before. The difference on this occasion was that our ginger-haired cat wanted to be the star. So, I give you Whiskers… and some books. This looks interesting Oh, I think I like these There appears to be more in…
I was standing in the kitchen when Riley called my attention to this picture he’d made in Windows Paint . Mum! he said. I made a city all on my own. When I looked up, from a distance, I thought he’d somehow googled a satellite image from some cityscape from somewhere in the world. It…
