This is a Book Week guest post from Zoe Toft of Playing by the Book. With (UK) summer holidays just around the corner I’ve started thinking about how we’re going to make the most my extra time with my two young girls, having lots of fun AND staying sane. One …
Welcome to Day 2 of Book Week: Summer. Today is all about the children and how books can help keep them happy (or quiet, or entertained, or learning…) over those long summer holiday weeks which will be starting in a few weeks (or may have already started). I know I …
Well, the first day of Book Week kicked off with an exploration of American literature with a round-up of my favourite American books as a child and an adult, followed by a review of a couple of lovely looking American children’s books from my cousin, Sunny, and then a post …
This is a Book Week guest post for Monday’s theme Stars and Stripes from Maria Wilson, another expat, who has been devouring American fiction since long before she emigrated. Perhaps I was destined to end up in the USA because I have always loved its fiction. My mum read the …
This is a Book Week guest post for Monday’s theme Stars and Stripes from Sunny Wight (my cousin) who emigrated to America many years ago. And I guess it’s testament to how settled she is there that she uses American spelling (which I have kept in). Miss Rumphius, story and …
Welcome to Book Week: Summer and Happy 4th July! Today’s theme is Stars and Stripes and is all about American fiction, in celebration of this American holiday. When I decided to do an American fiction day, I assumed that it would all be guest posts and was hoping to get …
It’s been a while since I’ve done this, though I used to do it a lot when Rosemary was younger. As some of you will know by now, Eleanor is at ‘that age’ – the one where every single thing makes her cry and scream and kick. Apart from the …
I’m back and too tired to come up with anything especially coherent, but was typing a Facebook status update and thought I should just put it here, instead… Had a lovely weekend. Caught up with some old friends, met some new ones, missed a whole bunch of people, learnt a …
Carly of Mummy’s Shoes is running a Meet and Greet again for Cybermummy. So here’s mine. Apologies to those of you not going and/or not interested. Name: Tasha Goddard (I have no middle name – people tend not to believe me, but I have a birth certificate and can prove …
So, to follow on from the Quavers confession, it would appear I have another one for you (and it’s nothing to do with the peeling paint in the dining room, though I’m sure just having to look at it pains some of you severely). Some of you may have already …
