Review: Into the Darkest Corner
Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes My rating: 5 of 5 stars Picked this up as a freebie on Kindle ages ago, stuck it in my “freebies I may or may not get round to reading one day” ... Read More
BBC: Don’t axe Something for the Weekend!
I was gutted to hear this afternoon that the BBC show Something for the Weekend (lovingly known in our house as Summat for the Weekend) is going to be axed when the current series finishes in March. A... Read More
Review: Nemesis
Nemesis by Jo Nesbø My rating: 3 of 5 stars Harry Hole is back, this time investigating a bank robbery where the clerk was killed despite handing over the money. Along the way he finds himself involv... Read More
Thing #42 completed – send someone a surprise parcel
I spoke to my old school friend Sharon for the first time in months and she sounded a bit down in the dumps – she’s recently moved house and though she’s in a lovely part of the coun... Read More
Review: Are We Nearly There Yet?
Are We Nearly There Yet? by Ben Hatch My rating: 3 of 5 stars Very enjoyable tale of a family’s trip round Britain. Ben is commissioned to write a travel guide about travelling round Britain wit... Read More
My Thruxton driving experience day!! (Thing #37)
My wonderful family surprised me with an amazing 40th birthday present back in January – a driving experience at Thruxton race track, where I’d get to take not one, not two but THREE cars ... Read More
Review: UNTYING THE KNOT
UNTYING THE KNOT by Linda Gillard My rating: 3 of 5 stars Enjoyed this but didn’t warmed to the characters quite as much as I normally do in Linda Gillard’s novels. tying together the rest... Read More
Fact: not all Housing Benefit tenants are trouble!
I’ve not had a very good day today. The house we are living in was meant to be a short term arrangement – we moved in a rush and we don’t much like the house, and it’s way too ... Read More
NaNoWriMo 2011
I’ve been talking about doing NaNoWriMo – national Novel Writing Month – for years, ever since I first heard about it, but I’ve never actually got round to it – always so... Read More
Things #23: Eat an Oyster – done!
So today we were shopping for scallops in Tesco’s and I noticed some oysters on the counter, and decided to buy a couple so I could cross number 23 off my list of 101 things to do in 1001 days. ... Read More
Review – the first Networking Women Conference
OK I’ll come clean straight away. I’m not really a big fan of women-only networking. I go to Networking Women now and then, but only really because I do their website and like to keep in t... Read More
Review – Holistic Health and a hot stone massage
Number 99 on my list of 101 things to do in 1001 days was “Have a hot stone massage”. Not sure what it was that made me put this on the list, except I’ve always wondered exactly one ... Read More