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After a brief, unintentional hiatus, I'm back and trying to figure out how on Earth to balance a busy day job and a more-hectic-than-usual home life with the writing life I crave. During the summer lull, I had managed to start to create time during my days to write or at least play with ideas [...]
Some time ago, I discovered the Harry Potter And The Sacred Text podcast. This was a wonderful discovery. HP and the Sacred Text takes one of my (and the world's) most beloved series of books, and engaged with them in a thoughtful and inquisitive way, exploring the lessons and ideas the story has to offer [...]
Being a mood reader, there are not often books that I eagerly anticipate the release of; that I cannot wait to get my hands on and that I clamour for an early copy of. I usually browse in bookshops or see what takes my fancy on Bookstagram and pick up what takes my fancy. But [...]
I did not read as many books in 2017 as I would have liked. In fact, I was a whole 20 books of meeting my Goodreads challenge! In spite of that, 2017 was a really good reading year and I discovered some new favourite authors and some new favourite books. I can never pick ONE [...]
Hello lovelies. It's been a hell of a few weeks. It's been busy, tiring, stressful, emotional and I've had this post in the back of my head for probably a month now without doing anything with it. As it happens, a post focusing on a few of my favourite things is just what I need [...]
I have just had the pleasure, and the absolute privilege, of watching English National Ballet perform Akram Kahn's Giselle. I'm not even sure if I can articulate how I feel about this production. Words like phenomenal spring to mind but I'm not sure even that would do it justice. Every aspect of this reimagined classic [...]
Anybody else feeling baffled by the fact that it's September tomorrow? I mean really how did that happen? On the plus side it means that it's time for buying back-to-school supplies. Yay! All that lovely stationary and bags and loveliness. So since I'm currently pining after bouquets of sharpened pencils and all that malarky I [...]
We all need a sweet treat every now and again...and now...and also now...anyways this amazingly easy no-cook fudge is great for giving as a gift, for parties and for generally having around when you need that sugar hit. It has become one of my go-to recipes when I'm hosting a party as it's fairly quick [...]
As I near the end of my first month of blogging (I'm still here...Yay!!) I wanted to take a moment to thank a very lovely lady, who is partially responsible for me deciding to take the leap into the blogosphere...and she doesn't even know it! In fact she doesn't even know me! Which is a [...]
A couple of months ago whilst browsing round Magma in Manchester (FYI, fabulous shop which you should visit) I came across a very pretty looking magazine which proclaimed to be "for paper lovers". Well that is definitely me. I picked up the magazine and flicked through it (soooo pretty!)...and put it back on the shelf (sensible head [...]
