Category: Archive
Making sure I'm in the picture
It occurs to me that as it’s usually me holding the camera, I’m not very often in the picture. My children could grow up without any pictures of me, I could just not be a part of their pictorial memories. I don’t want that to be the case, so I’ve decided that little as I…
Moving on to chapter books readalouds
Smallest loves picture books, and I think it’s going to be a few more years before she moves away from them. But she’s ready for a little more too, and we’ve started reading chapter books at bedtime. We tried Paddington a while ago, it didn’t really work out. I don’t know why, I tried it…
Bird by Crystal Chan
buy on Kindle There are some books I’m sent to review that I desperately want to read but I’m scared to, for one reason or another. Bird is one of those. I love how it looks. And the feather that I was sent with it. But the excerpt on the cover is stark and unforgiving…
101 in 1001 take two.
On December 10th 2006, I put a post in draft on this blog. It was a partial 101 things list, goals for the next 1001 days. I never even finished making the list, that’s how good I am as a completer finisher. In fact, when I’ve looked at it properly, the countdown widget in the…
A day without pictures
Once upon a time, this blog was all words. When I started it, I didn’t have a digital camera I don’t think, or if I did, it was a very pathetic one. Nothing like the phone I carry in my pocket. Tonight I read More Milly-Molly-Mandy to Smallest, and it was the chapter where MMM…
The book people summer sale – extra 100 books for one day only!
An extra hundred books, including £10 for 10 Julia Donaldson books, and free delivery on orders over £15 with code DEL15 at checkout. You’re welcome 🙂 (links are affiliate links.)
