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...

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...

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...

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

Well, the fresh river air did its magic last Saturday, and it's lasted all week. My transformation from the lethargy and lack of focus...

I have many and varied skills - ok, a few anyway - but it's safe to say that computer games are not one of them! Every so often I come...

I've never really considered myself an adventurous person, but rather would describe myself as averagely average, predictable, just...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

One of my daughters is very definitely a Swiftie, so I've heard lots of bits of Taylor Swift songs over the years, but never really paid...

We were introduced to this animated version of Little Red Riding Hood many years ago, and it's remained a firm family favourite ever...

While my adult children are home over the summer, they've been perhaps inadvertently expanding my viewing selections. So I've apparently...

Tove Jansson has long been an iconic author to me. I grew up with Moominvalley and its various inhabitants as near neighbours in my...