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Starting school is a big deal but actually there is a major transition between Year R and Year 1. I have just completed a year working in Year 1 as a teaching assistant and Zach has just finished Year R. Year R or Reception is actually a continuation of the Foundation Stage which begins at […]

Hapless amateur sleuth Pip Bloom is called upon to go undercover at a private school to investigate exam cheats. But the situation deteriorates when a death occurs at the school fair which is discovered to be murder. Pip finds herself in danger as well… Death at the Gates is the third book to feature the […]

  1945, the war has ended and Nancy and her husband Joe leave their military roles to live with his family. Nancy expected to be working but her new family want her to stay home to complete domestic tasks and bear children. Her heart loongs for the value and purpose she felt during the war. […]

My mum is the queen of cheese sauces and her cauliflower cheese is one of my favourite thing in the world. Making it wheat free was easy enough but using vegan cheese is very different. My issue is with the texture of the topping not the consistency of the sauce 🙂 Not perfect but definitely […]

  TRIGGER WARNING: this book contains violence and war crimes 2015, England: Isla visits her elderly grandparents and discovers a rainbow coloured scarf and a newspaper article in the attic which suggests her grandfather Tomasz fought for the Nazis. He now has dementia and she doesn’t want to upset him so she travels to his […]