Category: Book Club
All Join In #100books
The first time I read this book to Smallest I was amused when the other two drew near and listened from behind me. It seemed appropriate given the title 😉 This isn’t a story book – it’s a set of short and slightly noisy poems. Not a book to be read quietly either, this is…
Tidy up Trevor #100books
Yet another of our bargainous books from the Red Cross, and yet another that Smallest really enjoys. It’s not one I like quite as much as the others, as the anthropomorphic turtles are poorly drawn and I find it annoying. The story is fine, and probably familiar to most parents – a child who is…
Riding Tycho #100books
Book 5 for our 100 books challenge. I picked this one up at the library a few weeks back. I think I’d seen the sequel somewhere and realised that it was a sequel, so looked for the first one and was lucky. I wish I’d grabbed the sequel at the same time as my complaint…
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies #100books
This was the book I picked up from the British Mummy Bloggers Christmas lunch book exchange. I thought I’d made a note of who I got it from, but I can’t find it now! Anyway, although I’ve heard a lot about The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency before, I’d never actually read one, so I was…
Katie Morag Delivers the Mail #100books
We love Katie Morag. Somewhere in a box in the garage we have a large edition of several of the stories combined, given to Big, iirc, by friends some years ago. And these stories and pictures do stand up well to larger editions. In fact, that would be my only complaint about this particular version…
That's not my bear #100books
Book 2 – 98 to go. I need to set up a counter! Smallest was very fortunate to get two of this series from her aunt and uncle this Christmas. They are lovely books – we’ve had many of them from the library in the past. That’s not my bear is pretty popular – it…
Our Cat Flossie – the first book #100books
Of our 100 Book Challenge. This is one of a bundle of mini-treasures picked up for 25p at our local Red Cross shop and given to smallest for Christmas. She loves books, and of the pile she received from us this appears to be her current favourite. Not that surprising given she also loves cats.…
Wednesday woes and Angry Birds.
I’m blaming the very nice lady at Three for the latter addiction! As I sit here typing on my netbook, dp is sitting next to me playing Angry Birds on the HTC desire. Neither of us has a games console, I kind of think that I ought to want one, but have never managed to…
Books, books, books…
Friends will know that I’m quite fond of books. That may be an understatement. There are books everywhere here. On the table. On the coffee table. Under the table. On the craft shelves. In the baby’s toybox (those are the baby’s books. Mainly.) The children have bookshelves in their bedroom. We have bookshelves in our…
Ben 10: Alien Swarm – review
Small is a big Ben 10 fan, as is obvious to anyone who knows him. He can discourse knowledgeably on the different sets of aliens in the different series and explain what each one of them does. He has several omnitrixes (what is the plural of that anyway?) and many alien toys. With this in…