Tag: It’s where it is

  • Ancestral light by Elizabeth Bear

    Ancestral light by Elizabeth Bear

    Disclosure, this book was sent for review, and Amazon links are affiliate links. I grew up reading science fiction. Ursula K Le Guin, Anne McCaffrey, James Blish, Asimov, Heinlein. My favourites were books where the characters were as important as the environment – I loved the Dorsai books and everything by Lois McMaster Bujold. Over…

  • The Everlasting Rose by Dhonielle Clayton

    The Everlasting Rose by Dhonielle Clayton

    Disclosure, this book was sent free for review, and amazon link is affiliate. This is the second book in Dhonielle Clayton’s series that began last year with The Belles. (If you haven’t read the first book, I suggest you stop here and bob off and get it. Otherwise I’m likely to spoil you for the…

  • #Ad Foodsavvy – the products and the progress

    #Ad Foodsavvy – the products and the progress

    Disclosure: we were gifted these products, and some links are affiliate links. We’re into week two of my Foodsavvy challenge with Hubbub UK and this week I’ve been getting to grips with a view of the products we’ve been gifted to help cut down on our food waste. The first product would probably work better…

  • Newbury and Hobbes a tenth anniversary review/ introduction.

    Do you know when you get invited to look at a series of books, and you can’t imagine how you’ve somehow never come across them in the 10 years they’ve been out? That’s me and the Newbury and Hobbes series. The fifth book published this week, 10 years after the first. I was fortunate to…

  • #Ad Getting #FoodSavvy with HubbubUK.

    I hate waste, of any kind. Food waste is particularly galling. It’s money and resources down the drain, and given the current state of the planet, feels very wrong. I was recently approached by HubbubUK, a charity creating environmental campaigns and working with my local council. They invited me, along with a number of other…

  • The Lost Man by Jane Harper

    The Lost Man by Jane Harper

    I was provided an eArc of this book for review, and Amazon link (image) is an affiliate link. Buy at Amazon He had started to remove his clothes as logic had deserted him, and his skin was cracked. Whatever had been going through Cameron’s mind when he was alive, he didn’t look peaceful in death.…

  • Home education, how's it looking these days?

    Home education, how's it looking these days?

    I still get a fair few contacts via social media about home education, so I thought it was probably time for a bit of an update on where we are, how we’re doing and what it looks like these days. Also, I was inspired by Adele over at Beautiful Tribe who wrote a beautiful post…

  • A resolution free zone

    A resolution free zone

    I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve started fresh, made big changes, promised I’d be different. I don’t think I’ve ever lasted much more than a week. So no resolutions. No big changes. No more of a fresh start than the change of a number in a date. I am going to try a…

  • #MyAquaphor challenge

    #MyAquaphor challenge

    This post is an every for the Britmums #MyAquaphor challenge, sponsored by Eucerin. Discover the benefits of Eucerin At this time of year, I struggle with my hands. My skin objects strenuously to being cold and damp, I’m not good at winter on so many different levels. And I don’t get along with many skin…

  • Brio World Travel Switching Set 33512 – review

    Brio World Travel Switching Set 33512 – review

    This post contains affiliate links. We were sent the Brio World Travel Switching set for the purposes of review, all opinions are mine. We have been Brio fans for a very long time, and have a fairly comprehensive stock of trains and track from years and years ago. I love that it’s all still compatible…