December really wasn't being a good month for reading - or at least not for finishing books - until I got Covid the week before...

I've seen the little book nooks for the last few years - you know the ones, the little tiny house, street, bookshop or cafe scenes which...

As indicated by the fact this post is three days late, and wasn't drafted in advance, this Christmas is absolutely not conforming to the...

Following last week's post, this week I'm feeling satisfied that my GCSE French from 30-mumble years ago is still vaguely helpful....

This weekend my mum and I are off on our own little adventure to France. Actually we're going to visit Elder Daughter and bring back as...

It's been a draining and exhausted kind of month, and I've started a new and rather complicated knitting project, so my reading time has...

Or at least not to this cancer patient... I know that people mean well, and generally just don't know what to say, but there are a few...

This is going to include spoilers, as I can’t see how to write this up properly without them. If you haven’t yet watched this but want...

I'd assumed that this would be one of the first badges I completed, as I've enjoyed doing various crafts for about as long as I can...

Teen stumbled across this on Netflix a while back, when scrolling in search of something to watch, so we decided to give it a try...

It must be something over ten years now since I first started running. I'd thought about it on and off for a while, ever since I came...

This Netflix short film follows a few terminally ill patients in a San Francisco hospital facing end-of-life treatments and conditions....

Four years to the day that I got my life-shattering diagnosis, I logged in to work and was greeted by a message from my manager saying...

We all know of Anne Frank's diary, kept while she was living in hiding with her family and another family in Amsterdam during the Second...

A bit of everything, a bit of nothing: that's how I think I'd summarise this week! Both my husband and I are feeling much recovered from...

A summary of my reading in October... 12 Birds to Save your Life by Charlie Corbett In the middle of my venn diagram of books about...

When you have cancer - apparently! When I went on to the 'maintenance' medication I take daily, way back in August 2022, I was reminded...

One thing I enjoy doing as and when I have the time, energy, and opportunity, is baking. And eating the results, of course. I hadn't...

I’ve always been a bookworm and find it comforting to be surrounded by books. Almost any time we go on holiday we have to explore at...

Grey's Anatomy I was introduced to Grey's Anatomy back in the days of Season 1, when visiting a friend who watched it, and enjoyed it...