Category: Book Club
Book blogger woes – the little detail niggle.
I’ve always read a lot. For a lot of years. And maybe because of this, I’m a tiny bit more cynical when it comes to books. I’m also a touch on the pedantic side. Details stand out for me. And when they don’t fit, they can throw my enjoyment of the story. Now, in this…
Tech toys for Christmas.
We are a tech heavy family here, what with the phones, PCs, laptops and so on. The younger children will be getting extra games for their leappads (Smallest uses the LeapFrog LeapPad 3 – Green, while Tigerboy has last year’s ultra model). They’ve used the tablets for some time now, and I’m very pleased at…
Ollie the Oobicoo doll – review
A little while ago we had a new arrival in the house. Ollie, the Oobicoo doll. Ollie is not small. He is lifesized – apparently the size of a 6 month old baby – all I can say is I must have had small six month old babies 😉 He’s almost the size of Tigerboy,…
Snow Queen 2: Magic of the Ice Mirror
We’re gradually getting into the swing of a things in the run up to Christmas -with two family birthdays late in the year, I never feel like I can be completely festive until they’re done with. Now we’re done with getting older though, I feel that we can acknowledge the whole festive season, and get…
Teen parcel review – it's #amonthlything
Recently we were offered the chance to review a new monthly subscription service from Teen Parcel. It’s for monthlies 😉 We call them periods here, and we’re very open about the whole thing. Which meant that when Big got to that stage, we’d already had lots of conversations about what was available, how it all…
The Boy Who Loved Rain – blog tour.
Buy at Amazon | Paperback (cheaper) at Hive I wasn’t sure quite what to expect from this book. The tagline reads They Say That What You Don’t Know Can’t Hurt You. They’re Wrong. and the blurb The anger runs deep; from some untraceable darkness; and it is stealing his will to live. Colom had the…
Getting lucky with Geolotto
I don’t remember the last time I bought a lottery ticket – we’re just not big gamblers here. (Not that a £2 on a lottery ticket is a particularly big splash out, but you know what I mean.) I had seen a couple of adverts for the new Geolotto game though. I’m trying to think…
Christmas books at Stillwater books.
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #CollectiveBias It can’t have failed to escape your attention that Christmas is coming, and where I’m concerned, that means books. So the other day I popped into town to do a little bit of book shopping at our…
Win family tickets to the Paddington premiere!
Who doesn’t love Paddington? (Put your hand down, you at the back.) If you don’t have small children, you may have missed the news that he’s coming to the big screen very soon – 28th November to be precise. Want to see Paddington as you’ve never seen him before? (I’m always a bit nervous about…
Planning a Playmobil Christmas.
Yes, I’m sorry, I mentioned the C word. But the one thing that you kind of need to plan before December is your advent calendar, and once again, we’re going Playmobil style, in our role as Playologists. My children will be counting down to the festivities with the help of a whole bunch of Playmobil…
