Whew! Life is whizzing past at quite a rate! I am settling into working pretty much full time (I get Friday afternoons off at the moment) an...

I meant to do this neatly and post yesterday to coincide with St. George's day, but it didn't happen. Rather bizarrely for a co...

This pretty much sums up all you need to know about marmite.

Fashion is not a topic that comes up often on this blog, but I went on a major clothes shopping expedition last Saturday and can't resis...

Marmite on hot buttered toast ... Marmite sandwiches ... Marmite flavoured crisps (potato chips) ... Marmite flavoured cashew nuts .....

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: A Novel by Deborah Moggach My rating: 3 of 5 stars One advantage of a long weekend suffering from a col...

One of the pieces I played in my orchestra concert a couple of weeks ago was Elgar's Enigma Variations , which is one of the best loved...

Letters From the Trenches: A Soldier of the Great War by Bill Lamin My rating: 4 of 5 stars A quick and easy read, this book is a spin ...

Linds suggested in the comments to my England post that I set this series up with a Mister Linky so that other people can join in. I have n...

Knitting Around the World: A Multistranded History of a Time-Honored Tradition by Lela Nargi My rating: 2 of 5 stars I bought this book...

A combination of spring and the upcoming Diamond Jubilee made me think it would be nice to do a series of England themed posts about things...

Jilted Generation: How Britain Has Bankrupted Its Youth by Ed Howker My rating: 2 of 5 stars I felt like a break from my A to Z reading...

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson My rating: 4 of 5 stars I am an Apple geek - Windows makes me shudder! - and have been wanting to read th...

Another week that whizzed by at 100 miles per hour! The good news ... after my interview on Thursday I was offered a part-time job as an a...

Today is Mother's Day in the UK, or "Muthers Day" as Rose spells it. (If you are Catholic, note the liturgical connection - Mo...

It has been a while since I did one of these ... 1. Yesterday was Helen's 17th birthday. In the UK that is the magic age for DRIVIN...

I have had to do quite a bit of research on the Poor Laws lately, first for my archive course and then to give a talk at work, and have foun...

Updates on the various medical matters ... the hospital discharged Mum on Tuesday, only six days after her op which is a record for her, and...

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot My rating: 4 of 5 stars It was coincidental that I read this after  The Help , b...

The Help by Kathryn Stockett My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book tells the story of life in a Mississippi town in the early 1960s in the ...