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Phew, January is over at last (did it seem to last forever to you too?) Here is a round up of what we’ve been up to on my blog and in real life in the new decade. Chris made me laugh by asking if my photo from 2010 was more recent as I still wear […]

Top of my list has got to be A Christmas Carol. It was my first classic fiction book and is a fab introduction to Dickens and other great authors. It isn’t actually a full novel so is much more accessible to younger readers. The book that I had also contained 2 other of Dickens’ shorter […]

Being a fan of Addison’s Seaside and Bayside series of books, I was looking forward to this new series about the Braden family. These books are also Sweet with Heat so they are not explicit in terms of content or language. I’ll be perfectly honest, it took me a while to get used to the […]

Reading is one of the greatest pleasures in my life. I am very thankful that my children all love books too. Working in education, I know that reading is essential in order to be able to access the rest of the curriculum. I started reading to Matthew while I was pregnant. I chose rhyming books […]

  The start of the week started so well and my vertigo is so much better but I have been overdoing it a bit and been really wobbly and unsteady again today 🙁 Day 119: Matthew getting stuck in to a Harry Potter book: sooooooo proud! Day 120: a trip to see my little sister. […]