A brief bookish moment

I have a basket in my bedside table that is filled with a stash of books I am in the process of reading, or planning on reading. It also has a stash of cards given to me by my beloved, together with ticket stubs from flights, cinema trips, theatrical events and the like that DH [...]

I am one!

Well, I’m thirty years past one, but my little blog is one, or was last week. I was going to have a party- you know, pass-the-parcel, little sandwiches, a cake with candles, a few sugar-crazed kids and a bunch of parents necking Champagne. But then I thought, what’s the point? One-year-olds never appreciate the [...]

I am one!

Well, I’m thirty years past one, but my little blog is one, or was last week. I was going to have a party- you know, pass-the-parcel, little sandwiches, a cake with candles, a few sugar-crazed kids and a bunch of parents necking Champagne. But then I thought, what’s the point? One-year-olds never appreciate the [...]

Mercy

I have always loved reading, have always been encouraged by my parents to read. I never really thought that there was a right and wrong thing to read until I was thirteen and had my books confiscated by Matron. She deemed Danielle Steel to be inappropriate (yet she left Judy Blume’s Forever, which to my [...]

Mercy

I have always loved reading, have always been encouraged by my parents to read. I never really thought that there was a right and wrong thing to read until I was thirteen and had my books confiscated by Matron. She deemed Danielle Steel to be inappropriate (yet she left Judy Blume’s Forever, which to my [...]

Shameless plug

By the way, for those of you still to go on your summer holiday, you can buy a copy of ‘Handbags and Hopscotch: the Essential Guide to Being a Girl’ here, written by my wonderfully talented friend, Lucy. It’s out in a couple of weeks. I’ve been invited to the Launch Party, though have [...]

Shameless plug

By the way, for those of you still to go on your summer holiday, you can buy a copy of ‘Handbags and Hopscotch: the Essential Guide to Being a Girl’ here, written by my wonderfully talented friend, Lucy. It’s out in a couple of weeks. I’ve been invited to the Launch Party, though have [...]