Life has suddenly got a bit busier, as i'm back doing musical things regularly, but i'm still making sure I have time to read. The...

My earliest memory of birds is as a primary school child looking out of the kitchen window with my dad as he pointed out a wren in the...

For as long as I can remember, music has played a huge role in my life - from learning piano, recorder and guitar in primary school, to...

The Japanese word tsundoku describes to a habit well known to all booklovers - that of buying books and not reading them; it can also...

I actually enjoyed keeping my reading log last year, so have decided to continue keeping it going. I found it interesting to see what I'd...

It's been rather interesting - and I think quite telling, looking back over the past year of blog posts that the variety and regularity...

My book dragon guarding the hoard on my bedside table 1 Locked-room mystery  Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie 2 Bibliosmia:...

I've been trying (unsuccessfully) to finish as many part-read books for the 52 book challenge as I can, as well as managing a couple of...

This one is something of a challenge to compile, as I didn't note down a single book I read all month. I didn't manage to finish many,...

Somehow I've managed to fall behind on my reading logs - as well as on my actual reading! This is as much as I noted down for October, so...

This month I've finally reached my first deliberate DNF of the year. Not quite the milestone I was expecting or hoping for, but...

It will be very clear to readers of this blog that kayaking is something which is Very Important to me. Five years ago I barely knew the...

For much of my life, music has been entwined with everything I do - from starting to play recorder and piano as a small child, joining my...

Taking stock at this point, two thirds of the way through the year, I needed to have read 35 books by the end of August to be on track...

I've been very used to seeing my kids building wonderful constructions in Minecraft over the past however many years, and more recently...

As is probably very clear to anyone who knows me or has read my blog for a little while, beign on the river is very definitely my Happy...

Four Seasons in Japan by Nick Bradley This was a recommendation from a bookseller when I apparently looked as though I needed to buy...

Many of us have come across the Wild in Art trails in recent years, as we walk around a city trying to find large, decorative animal...

June hadn't felt like a very read-y kind of month, but yet somehow there are another ten books added to the year list, and three more...

It's been a couple of weeks since I last blogged for a few reasons, which can broadly be summarised as having fun paddling, and worrying...