Category: Collaborative
The Woman Who Met Her Match – Fiona Gibson.
What if your first love came back on the scene . . . 30 years later? After yet another disaster, Lorrie is calling time on online dating. She might be single in her forties, but she’s got a good job, wonderful children and she’s happy. This, Lorrie decides, is going to have to be enough.…
Martyn Ford: Dreams and regrets – UKYACX blog tour.
As part of the UKYACX blog tour (MG variety), I’m very pleased to welcome author Martyn Ford to the blog today, continuing on the occasional series of Dreams and Regrets guest posts. Over to Martyn Tasked with writing a blog post on “dreams and regrets”, we first have to define the words. I’m going to…
Who's heading to FunFest Blogger Summit 2016?
I’ll be there – we had a great time last year, and the kids absolutely loved it all. (After all, who wouldn’t love the chance to balance a stormtrooper on their hands?) There are only a handful of delegate tickets remaining, and it all takes place in just over a week’s time on Saturday, September…
Squeezing the pennies – tracking day to day spending with #SagaSpendingDiary
Recently I was asked to take part in a #SagaSpendingDiary challenge and sent some items to help me with this task. So, in the kit, there’s a copy of The Wealth Chef: Recipes to Make Your Money Work Hard, So You Don’t Have To at Amazon uk (affiliate link), a budget diary, and a joint…
What's your X Moment?
Parenting, or indeed life, is full of blink and you’ll miss it moments. Once upon a time, that was what happened, if you weren’t there, you weren’t looking, you lost your chance. Then came cameras, Polaroids, digital cameras, and now most of us have that powerful camera in our pocket in the form of our…
Sustained by strangers – the blogging community.
https://instagram.com/p/BEJgiJJNpwO/ I’m not here today. (Well, obviously I’m here, but I’m not at home.) Given that I’ve set this to post itself at 9 am (wonders of technology eh?) I’m hopefully somewhere between Cambridge and Bedford, maybe in a roadside cafe enjoying coffee, maybe on the road towards Bath Spa university. (I’m not. I didn’t…
Bella Broomstick by Lou Kuenzler.
Today I’m very pleased to welcome Lou Kuenzler to the blog, with a guest post: Why a witch? My new funny series Bella Broomstick is about a young witch who is so bad at magic, she is expelled from the Magic Realm and sent off in disgrace to the Person World to be fostered by…
A Wicked Old Woman by Ravinder Randhawa – guest post.
I’m very pleased today to be taking part in the blog tour for A Wicked Old Woman by Ravinder Randhawa. Genre: Contemporary Publisher: Matador Format: Paperback & Ebook Published: 24 Oct 2015 (republished) Goodreads link Amazon (affiliate) A Wicked Old Woman Drama. Masquerade. Mischief. A sharply observed, witty and confident novel. Linguistically playful, entertaining and…
YA or not YA? – the author Antonia Honeywell guest posts on writing and reading labels.
I loved Antonia Honeywell’s book The Ship and I’m thrilled today to be hosting a guest post and giveaway promoting the rather wonderful YA Shot initiative from Alexia Casale. (As an aside there *are* still a few tickets available for this set of events, please do click on through to the site if you are…
I'm a NickJr Pumpkin party host!
The goody bags are packed. The activities are ready, the table is laid. The children are bouncing off the walls with excitement 😉 In just over an hour, our guests will arrive for our Nick Jr Pumpkin party. We’ve got some great activities ready and waiting from Frankenstein cupcakes (green of course) to making (paper…
