charity

What would you pay for the chance to spend the day on Downton Abbey set?

February 6, 2014 By Jax Blunt Leave a Comment

I get the oddest emails via the blog. Win the chance to visit the set of Downton Abbey? This is to support a charity fundraising for the Philippines. I checked out the Omaze site – it looks kind of like Kickstarter – you get different awards for different amounts of money. But instead of going […]

Filed Under: It's where it is Tagged With: Ben Affleck, charity, Downton Abbey, Matt Damon, Omaze

Everyone has a story.

June 20, 2011 By Jax Blunt 7 Comments

I’ve always wondered what it was like to be part of a newspaper story. You know, how does it feel to be part of a disaster, do you really start feeling brave when you are described as such, that kind of thing. Do you notice the moment that you suddenly become newsworthy, is the narrator […]

Filed Under: blog for good, family Tagged With: charity, family, Jane Tomlinson run, Leeds10k

Wallace & Gromit: Cracking Contraptions Manual by Haynes – review and giveaway #100books

February 8, 2011 By Jax Blunt

We’ve been sent some great stuff to review as part of the 100 books challenge, but this has been one of Small’s favourites. So I’m particularly glad to have been sent two copies – meaning I can give one away without having to pry it out of Small’s grasping fingers! We like Haynes stuff here. […]

Filed Under: 100 book challenge, giveaway, review Tagged With: 100BookChallenge, 100books, Build a library, charity, Haynes, Wallace and Gromit

And still they came #100books

January 31, 2011 By Jax Blunt Leave a Comment

Few more reviews that the kids finished off earlier. Big reviewed There’s A Pharaoh In Our Bath! – her third Jeremy Strong of the week I think. And I took a look at the fourth Astral Legacies book, The Elephants’ Call, as sent to us by Top That Publishing. Small read and reviewed The Great […]

Filed Under: 100 book challenge, Big, Small steps Tagged With: 100BookChallenge, Astral Legacies, Build a library, charity, Gordon Volke, Jeremy Strong, top that publishing

Connor’s Eco den #100Books

January 31, 2011 By Jax Blunt 2 Comments

On our library raid yesterday I spotted a book with a geodesic dome on the cover. I couldn’t resist, and added to the pile of 71 books we were bringing home with us. It’s an interesting take. Turns out that Barrington Stoke, the publishers, are working very hard to design books for reluctant readers. This […]

Filed Under: 100 book challenge Tagged With: 100BookChallenge, 100books, Barrington Stoke, Build a library, charity, dyslexia, Pippa Goodhart

Divide and Rule #100Books

January 31, 2011 By Jax Blunt Leave a Comment

I borrowed Divide and Rule from a friend’s last week (accidentally leaving my half finished review copy of O: A Presidential Novel there in exchange, so that won’t get finished and reviewed til next week now, *oops*). I like Jan Mark – as is obvious by the fact that I’ve already reviewed a couple by […]

Filed Under: 100 book challenge Tagged With: 100BookChallenge, 100books, Build a library, charity, Jan Mark

Off the shelf #100books

January 31, 2011 By Jax Blunt Leave a Comment

A few more round up reviews of books that we’ve had around for ages and I’ve read again to Smallest. The Whales’ Song is one of the batch of mini treasures that we picked up, but it’s also a book we’ve had for a while. It doesn’t seem like a first picture book somehow – […]

Filed Under: 100 book challenge Tagged With: 100BookChallenge, 100books, Build a library, charity, picture books

Turning the Tide #100Books

January 31, 2011 By Jax Blunt 1 Comment

This was kindly sent to me for review by ChocLitUK for the 100 book challenge. I’m also going to enter ChickLitPlus challenge to read 12 chick lit books in a year, and this is number 1 🙂 Perhaps it’s because I’ve been reading so many books of such a varied type in such a short […]

Filed Under: 100 book challenge, It's where it is Tagged With: 100BookChallenge, 100books, Build a library, charity, chicklit, Christine Stovell

Doing the Animal Bop #100Books

January 30, 2011 By Jax Blunt Leave a Comment

This was sent to us free of charge by Oxford University Press for our 100 books challenge. Fun pictures and a great rhythm, this is a book that is crying out to be read to a group of toddlers so that they can join in with the actions – I suspect it’s destined to become […]

Filed Under: 100 book challenge Tagged With: 100BookChallenge, 100books, Build a library, charity, Jan Ormerod

Using our library for #100books

January 30, 2011 By Jax Blunt 4 Comments

A challenge that is working to build a library overseas really ought to do more than nod at libraries here. We are not in an area where libraries are particularly threatened by the coming cuts as far as I can tell, but if we were, I’d be thinking hard about what I could do to […]

Filed Under: 100 book challenge Tagged With: 100BookChallenge, 100books, Build a library, charity, picture books, saveourlibraries