Day 10: Hay-on-Wye Today we are going to shop until we drop. And then shop some more. For booklovers, this is the ultimate shopping trip. On...

Day 11: Shrewsbury (Ellis Peters) I am not a big fan of mysteries and detective stories, although I enjoy them on occasions. One of several ...

Day 12: Hornby, Lancashire (John Lingard) As life gets back on an even keel it's time to venture on with our travels. Today we are headi...

Day 13: Ambleside and Lake Windermere (Charlotte Mason, Beatrix Potter, Arthur Ransome) A long day today with many places to visit. If we ar...

Day 14: Yorkshire Dales (James Herriot) For enjoyable light reading James Herriot's autobiographical books describing his life as a v et...

Day 15: North Yorkshire Moors (Evelyn Waugh, St.Ailred of Rievaulx) Today we are taking a short drive east from Thirsk - a short drive, but...

Day 16: Northamptonshire (Flora Thompson) A long drive south today, so only a short literary visit. We are headed for the county of Northamp...

My mother just phoned. She had been watching the local news on TV and rang to warn us that there is aggressive goose at large on the nearby ...

For those with a linguistic turn of mind, take a look at the Lord's Prayer in 1325 languages . To link in with my literary tour, here ...

Star will be making her First Confession next month and her First Communion in May. I'm mortified that I simply haven't done as much...

I'm finally hitting the right balance between action and inaction. I went for a swim on Sunday and again today, and have booked myself i...

Rather hopefully, when told it was bedtime ... "It's illegal to have to go to bed."

Angel is an unabashed techie. She likes gadgets. She likes computers. Fortunately she also likes boundaries. Once parameters are set she wil...

Thanks to MyCatholic.com I realised today is the feast of St. Gilbert of Sempringham, one of the most endearing of English medieval saints ...

Thanks to recommendations on the 4 Real Learning message board I took The Tale of Hill Top Farm by Susan Wittig Albert with me last weekend...

A couple of weeks ago I had a conversation with Angel about reading in the bath and the risk of dropping a book in the water. I reassured he...

On Saturday we decided to visit Ambleside and Lake Windermere. We arrived in Ambleside after a scenic drive around Ullswater and across the ...

We love this place! We discovered it when Angel was tiny and we saw it recommended as a family-friendly hotel. Over the ten years since then...

We are back from a wonderful, relaxing long weekend away at our all-time favourite hotel ... a weekend interspersed with a number of "I...