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Heroes of the City review and giveaway.
Just before Christmas we were contacted by the company behind Heroes of the City children’s TV series, and sent a bundle of goodies to look at as well as being given a code to review the Heroes of the City app. Turned out that this was really popular with the small people – so that…
Trouble by Non Pratt read 52 bk 4
Buy on KindleBuy Trouble at Hive This is the story of a couple of teenagers and a pregnancy. Except the two teenagers aren’t the couple, if you see what I mean. In fact, you’re kept guessing for quite some time as to who the bloke is, there are a couple of contenders. Which all sounds…
Giveaway: the Midnight Rose by Lucinda Riley.
Spanning four generations, The Midnight Rose sweeps from the glittering palaces of the great maharajas of India to the majestic stately homes of England, following the extraordinary life of a girl, Anahita Chavan, from 1911 to the present day . . . In the heyday of the British Raj, eleven-year-old Anahita, from a noble but…
The Midnight Rose by Lucinda Riley – Read 52 bk 1
You know when you’re reading a book and it’s late at night, and you know you ought to go to sleep, but just a few more pages because you just need to know…and then suddenly it’s 3 am, you’ve finished the book and your head is too full of exotic places and distant times to…
A short reading week for picture books.
When the challenge is to read 300 books in a year, that’s not quite 1 a day. I figured that getting a book a day in to begin with would be a good start though. So far I’ve read the Mozart Question aloud to the small children. I think I got more out of it…
Reading challenges – #read52 and #300PBs
This year, like last year, I’m setting myself the challenge of reading 52 books. This year I’m going to actually try to keep track 😉 I don’t really use Goodreads any more, as now they are owned by Amazon I slightly object to basically doing their advertising for them. Instead, my 52 books will be…
Winter activities and bird feeder crafts.
I am a member of the Collective Bias® Social Fabric® Community. This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper amplification for Collective Bias and its advertiser. Outdoor family activities at this time of year can be challenging. This time between Christmas and New Year is traditionally the time that we leave the…
Minecraft papercraft Shelter kit review.
Today we should have been at wed ed. But the little two still aren’t quite right, and the idea of spending several hours in the car with them just didn’t appeal at all. So I apologised profusely to Small, who missed out on his communal minecraft session, and then was very grateful when this Minecraft…
