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Welcome to this month’s book readalong. As you know, I absolutely love the book readalong, it’s always one of my favourite #BringBackPaper activities.  If you’ve yet to join in with one of these readalongs, let me tell you a little more about it and tempt you to join us. The… Read more »

I like looking back on the year and thinking about what my favourite reads have been. Do you do this? I do keep a book journal so this one’s quite easy to do as I don’t have to think too hard about what I’ve been reading, it’s all there. I… Read more »

2024 is drawing to a close. Already.  I do feel that the year’s gone by quickly, especially this last quarter. Honestly, I feel like I’ve just got back from our holiday and the kids have got back to school, and here we are, ending the first term with Christmas right… Read more »

It’s that time of year when I start setting myself up ready for next year. I like to plan ahead and get my bullet journal ready for the following year around about now. It means I then don’t have to do anything with it over the holidays and I’m all… Read more »

We do love a family game afternoon here, and it’s been fun introducing the kids to so many over the years. As they’re now getting older, I thought it’d be good to share some of our current favourites, for those of you on the lookout for board games for older… Read more »

We’ve run this one for the past couple of Decembers and it always goes down well, so here we go again.  I’m very aware how busy everyone can be this month and how busy the postal services all over the world are, so instead of arranging a swap, I am… Read more »

This time of year can be expensive and chaotic, so we don’t need loads of costly and complicated things to do with the kids on top, do we? We want to make it magical for them, we want to keep them busy (my daughter used to get so over excited… Read more »

It’s no surprise that the handwritten letter is becoming a thing of the past. It probably started to die with the telephone, and now that we have emails, texts, facetime, social media and more, it’s really on the ropes.  It’s not really necessary any more, is it? Not as a… Read more »

I found last Christmas a little bit tough. It was all too close to my treatment, I was very much still feeling that, and my diagnosis was quite fresh, quite raw.  My mortality was right there in my face. I was both grateful to be having a Christmas, and then… Read more »

Welcome to this month’s book readalong. As you know, I absolutely love the book readalong, it’s always one of my favourite #BringBackPaper activities.  If you’ve yet to join in with one of these readalongs, let me tell you a little more about it and tempt you to join us. The… Read more »