It is an age since I posted any knitting pictures, so here is an update on recent projects. I finally finished the aran cardigan that I s...

Ghosts of Spain by Giles Tremlett My rating: 4 of 5 stars This one just squeaked up to four stars. Written by a British author who live...

I meant to post last week to comment on the 60th anniversary of the Queen succeeding to the throne. It was a royal-ish sort of week. Rose...

Rose ... is as good as gold at school, bless her. (Actually she is pretty good at home too!) She is very proud of the fact that she has neve...

Life here is busy! On that edge between very busy and crazy busy. My mum is waiting to have her second hip replaced, which will probably hap...

Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett My rating: 5 of 5 stars The suggested theme for 52 Books in 52 Weeks  for this week is Dickens...

After a bitterly cold week we finally got our first (and only?) real snow of the winter, with three inches or so falling overnight. Rose and...

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....