Eat Well Spend Less by Sarah Flower My rating: 2 of 5 stars I don't have much to say about this one. I got serious about eating mo...

A Darkly Hidden Truth by Fletcher Donna My rating: 3 of 5 stars The series title "Monastery Murders" and the promise of dash...

Tevye and I decided that this year we would try to go to the cinema once a month - really, we should take more advantage of our on-hand baby...

Haven't posted one of these for a while (apologies to those of you who have already read these on Facebook): Why is my life like a se...

The Tale of Oat Cake Crag by Susan Wittig Albert My rating: 4 of 5 stars I have been chugging gently through this series for a few year...

I started the Day Zero Project back in October 2010 and after six months of enthusiasm mostly forgot about it. In a fit of New Year-ish-nes...

I haven't been doing Jen's 7 Quick Takes for a while but always enjoy reading hers (and others). This week she celebrates her thirt...

Beasts in my Belfry by Gerald Durrell My rating: 3 of 5 stars I went through a phase of reading Gerald Durrell's books many years (...

I want to get back to posting here more regularly, so expect some random off-the-top-of-my-head rambling. I'm not sure what it says abou...

At Home by Bill Bryson My rating: 3 of 5 stars I rather stupidly chose a "chunker" of over 600 pages for the first of my 52 Bo...

To encourage myself to read more this year and get plenty of use out of my Kindle I am copying Faith and taking part in the 52 Books in 52...

I have been thinking for a while that Angel and Star are both outgrowing their blog names. I want to stick to pseudonyms for the sake of the...

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...