I haven't blogged enough to look back at posts over the past years, so I am doing a little family stock taking  instead. Littlest first....

Look what Father Christmas - or maybe it would be more accurate to say the Hannukah Elf - brought me. I have been coveting a Kindle for a...

All tumbling over each other this year, which is why I have not posted for a while. Hannukah started on the Tuesday evening before Christmas...

Late, but posting this anyway for the record, our final batch of books for Advent. There were a couple of others I wanted that I ordered fro...

I wrote this on the train during the week, but needed to tweak the pictures and only just remembered! This week's books: Christmas ...

The books for advent have been a huge hit so far (with the exception of Saint Andrew which she took against). This weeks selection is: Sun...

... finally makes sense! It probably always made sense to listen to, but until last night too many bits were just a jumble of notes when I t...

The weather ... A nasty, wet morning, after a frosty start yesterday. It still feels more like autumn than winter. I am wearing ... blac...

Back in August I bought a (very cheap!) set of 42 Rainbow Magic books for Cherub and complained that it was madness . Quite how the publishe...

Last year I wrapped a book a day for Cherub during Advent. Some she loved, others she refused to have anything to do with. This year I think...

The weather  ... more of the same, mostly grey and damp, though still warmer than usual for November. It is supposed to be getting colder as...

The weather  ... still very, very Novemberish. Grey and damp, occasional sun peaking through, not particularly cold. I am wearing  ... bla...

Sorry, can't mention parrots without thinking Monty Python. A recent conversation with Star: Star (all excited): I know what I want ...

I keep thinking of things I want to blog about, then never get around to writing. Maybe if I post a list here as a place marker it will give...

The weather  ... November. Ugh. Yesterday was so grey it felt as though it never got properly light. I am wearing  ... black and white py...

For a long time I have been ambivalent about Halloween. When I was a child, Halloween was a very minor date on the calendar. I remember bobb...

The weather  ... an autumnal mix of sun, cloud, wind and rain, but warmer than average for late October. I am wearing  ... black and white...

I did a nice photo blog from our day in Chichester last week, which caused my phone to blow a 3G (mobile data) gasket when I tried to upload...

1. Too late for 7 Quick Takes this week, and I'm not sure I can come up with seven things to say, so this is just a random number of qui...

The weather ... all over the place - sun, wind and rain in quick succession. I am wearing ... pyjamas and fluffy dressing gown. I am r...