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  • We love you Hugless Douglas

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    I’ve read some other books for myself this week, including Allegiant, but I’m not quite ready to write down what I feel about that. (Yes, the kind of book where you’ve got to absorb it. There you go.) So tonight, I’ll give you a review of Hugless Douglas, the We love you edition. I don’t…

  • Dogs in space!

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    Heard of Teksta? He’s a cool robo puppy, and he’s getting everywhere. Including space I bet he makes it onto a few Christmas lists too. Will he feature on yours?

  • I've read some books.

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    This week. Quite a few in fact.  The lemon Grove. The book thief. The dark heroine. And I’ve finally finished the 10pm question. I loved the book thief. The narrator’s voice. The humanity. The pain and sadness and hope and fierce joy. I almost started over reading it straight away. Instead I gave it to…

  • Discover the Savage World blog tour with giveaway.

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    I’m pleased today to be taking part in a blog tour with Miles Kelly, for their Discover the Savage World book. This is the third in the Discover series, and focuses on the less fluffy parts of the world around us. I got Small to review the book by using the cunning ploy of leaving…

  • Goals, not dreams: Clare Mackintosh

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    Continuing my occasional guest post series, inspired by my Dreams and Regrets post, today I’m very pleased to host Clare Mackintosh (who some of you may remember better as Emily Carlisle from More than Just a mother), who has a slightly different take on the situation. Over to Clare. Discovering, in my early thirties, that…

  • Kids Boost from TalkTalk – review

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    This review is overdue, and for that I apologise profusely. It’s supposed to be a video review. Which is why it’s overdue, as it turns out that I’m basically incompetent with videos. I film them the wrong way, or can’t work out how to stream a hangout to air so that I could just talk…

  • What a wonderful World – Marcus Chown blog tour Q&A and giveaway.

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    I’m really happy to be hosting a leg of the blog tour for Marcus Chown’s new book, What a Wonderful World. I’ve got a Q&A AND a giveaway, so read on to find out more. Me: Hi Marcus. Where do you start writing a book like this (I’m guessing there had to be a plan)?…

  • Igam Ogam – A Q&A before the new series.

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    Smallest likes television. She likes to watch the same things over. And over. And over again. This gets a bit monotonous. So when I was sent details of a new series of Igam Ogam starting 17th September on Channel 5 (6.10 am. You might want to record it.) I was interested. The previous series is…

  • MyFamilyClub's free MyFamilyPack – sponsored review.

    MyFamilyClub's free MyFamilyPack – sponsored review.

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    I follow MyFamilyClub on twitter (often try to join in the #thriftyThursday quiz), and am subscribed to the website. It’s a goldmine of budget tips and competitions, and when they approached me to do a sponsored post about their latest campaign, the free MyFamilyPack, it didn’t take me long to say yes, as I can…

  • Getting my act together as an educational blogger – call for carnival posts.

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    I really really loved running the not back to school carnival. And I get the impression that it was pretty popular with a lot of home ed and other bloggers. So, I wondered if we could make an educational carnival a regular thing? Who is up for that? I was thinking maybe 4th Thursday of…