Category: Book Club
Lansinoh breast pump and accessories review
When I went back to work 14 weeks after Big was born, sending expressed milk to nursery with her was my personal line in the sand. I couldn’t stop her crying, I didn’t really know how to hold her, and I didn’t know what to say, but I knew she was having my milk. So…
Playskool Explore 'n Grow Activity Tower review.
And if you read to the bottom, there’s a 50% off cashback offer 😉 ) Playskool were kind enough to offer me the chance to review one of their products and I couldn’t really resist, but I tried to choose something that would be small and versatile. The Explore ‘n Grow Activity Tower doesn’t disappoint.…
The baby book category
I never managed to keep a baby book for either of the other two. (In fact we found the blank one the other day that I had for Big I think, came out of a box in the garage. I thought it would be good to fill in for soa, so I put it down…
Put the baby down and walk away.
A lot of the time if I put soa down and sit back down in my chair, she gets really unhappy. She can still see me, and smell me, and I think she can’t quite understand why she should be in the (relatively) hard, cold chair when she could be on a warm comfortable lap.…
Offline for two days
no blogging for over a week, anyone would think I’d had a baby 🙂 Smallest of all arrived punctually last Tuesday on her due date. Apparently only 4% of babies do that. Labour in the form of irregular contractions started overnight Monday, just at the level to interrupt my sleep so that I was nicely…
Little brother
Have you read The Children’s Story? Or ? Do you read xkcd? If you do, you might have noticed the name Cory Doctorow features. But you might not know who he is, as despite the fact that he lives in this country, his books are not easy to find here. Which is kind of odd,…
Borrowed books.
Jonathan kindly brought me several books to the party, and is reading is something that I can do without feeling any more ill than usual, I’ve read them all over the past few days. I started with The Family Trade, then there’s The Hidden Family and The Clan Corporate. They romp along quite nicely, although…
some more reading.
Let’s see, there was The Telling, read this last weekend. Possibly wasn’t in the best state of mind for it – I think Ms Le Guin does undercurrents in her work, and instead of picking up any of those, I just found it rather inpenetrable. Shame. I might try it again another time – I…
Been reading again.
Finished off a couple of books this weekend. First there was The Ropemaker which I was reading to see if Big would like. I’m not sure she would, it doesn’t move fast enough with anything much happening, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I started reading Peter Dickinson because he’s Robin McKinley’s husband, but now he’s…
Mockingbird – book review
I usually avoid things labelled Masterworks, a kind of inverse snobbery I acquired from a boyfriend many years ago. He was terribly middle class and pretty much only read literature or Masterworks, and made me feel very stupid for not knowing about classical music (my parents listened to Radio 2, nothing with classical music on!)…