Category: Book Club
A short reading week for picture books.
When the challenge is to read 300 books in a year, that’s not quite 1 a day. I figured that getting a book a day in to begin with would be a good start though. So far I’ve read the Mozart Question aloud to the small children. I think I got more out of it…
Reading challenges – #read52 and #300PBs
This year, like last year, I’m setting myself the challenge of reading 52 books. This year I’m going to actually try to keep track 😉 I don’t really use Goodreads any more, as now they are owned by Amazon I slightly object to basically doing their advertising for them. Instead, my 52 books will be…
Minecraft papercraft Shelter kit review.
Today we should have been at wed ed. But the little two still aren’t quite right, and the idea of spending several hours in the car with them just didn’t appeal at all. So I apologised profusely to Small, who missed out on his communal minecraft session, and then was very grateful when this Minecraft…
So, a table arrived. Or an art master activity desk, depending on your perspective.
As you may recall, I entered a competition to become an Activity Toys Direct blogger. I was successful. (Check out the funky badge in the sidebar.) Yay me. 🙂 And very recently, I had my first review item. There was of course, an exchange of emails beforehand, and I agreed that an art master activity…
They're getting better, with the help of many movies from TalkTalk.
It’s been a tough week. First Tigerboy then Smallest went down with the most vicious cold bug I’ve seen. Off their food, sleeping fitfully but lots, snotty, with hacking coughs. It hasn’t been pretty. It’s also been tiring, as Tigerboy in particular decided he could only nap sitting up on my lap, and they both…
Toys and crafts for presents from babe to teen.
Apologies to those of my readers who don’t want to be thinking of Christmas. I don’t want to be thinking of Christmas. I’d just like it to sort itself out quietly, happen peacefully and be over with, instead of somehow having become this two month frenzy of gift consideration and buying and let’s not even…
BullGuard Identity Protection review
Knocking around in computers and tech for quite a while now, I’ve come across a variety of software aimed at protecting your computer from viruses, malware and so on. This is a bit different. BullGuard Identity protection bills itself as the simple and effective way to protect yourself from identity theft, to keep your personal…
Christmas with Rakuten's Play.com – review
I remember play.com before it was Rakuten’s Play.com I don’t remember it terribly well, and was really surprised to discover what a wide ranging site it now is. I remember it as just doing CDs and DVDs – it now does clothing, books, toys, tech stuff and pretty much everything (barring food) that you need…
Taste of darkness – Maria V Snyder
She’s fought death and won. But how can she fight her fears? Avry knows hardship and trouble. She fought the plague and survived. She took on King Tohon and defeated him. But now her heart-mate, Kerrick, is missing, and Avry fears he’s gone forever. But there’s a more immediate threat. The Skeleton King plots to…