1. The next three weeks are going to be hairy. I have a short piece of assessed work, an essay and a report to write for my course. That is ...

Rose celebrated her 6th birthday on Friday. And then again on Sunday with a party for her school friends. We ended up with 13 small people a...

You see, I have been reading, just not blogging, so I'm going to shove all of the four books I have read recently into one catch up post...

We are having a cold, wet and miserable spring here, but it finally stopped raining at the weekend and Tevye, Rose and myself went on a tri...

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...