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Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros - a fantasy romance with dragons. I haven't read much fantasy this year but this felt very easy to get into with excellent world-building. I read it very quickly. Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak - so so creepy! I devoured this in a day (half-term reading for the win!). A… Continue reading 5 Books I Have Loved This Year So Far
Yesterday was the first day of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and for the first time in years, I plan on starting a new novel. Kind of. Since I have stalled so many times with my current work in progress, I have decided to change things up. I am going to be using a couple… Continue reading A New Project
This afternoon the kids needed to get out of the house so we visited the library in Warwick. It has just recently been renovated and it is so lovely in there. There was a Halloween trail which Austin got stuck into straight away. Evelina chose her teen fiction and settled down to read while we… Continue reading Library Day
What a fun day which included pumpkin carving, pumpkin soup making (and eating!), a Halloween dance party, and of course, trick or treating! I especially liked being back home after going trick-or-treating with the kiddos so that I could answer the door to trick-or-treaters coming to ours. We had red lights in the front rooms… Continue reading Happy Halloween
Our lodge has the most fantastic outlook which is entirely made up of the surrounding pine forest. It is quiet, beautiful, magical. In the mornings, I like to sit with my cup of tea and just listen to the soft sounds of the surrounding woodland. I can feel myself relaxing minute by minute. This morning,… Continue reading Forest Magic
We had a fantastic day at Chatsworth House and even though Rich and I had been earlier this year, we still enjoyed returning and touring the house and gardens, and farm with the kiddos. The house was starting to be decorated for Christmas so we saw a preview of the stunning decorations. Sadly, the bonfire… Continue reading Our Day at Chatsworth
We are spending the weekend in the Peak District staying at the same place we visited for our twentieth wedding anniversary in May only this time with the kiddos. We are staying in between Matlock and Bakewell in the Derbyshire Peak District. With my familial links to the area (my maternal grandparents lived in the… Continue reading My Heart Belongs to the Peaks
We have had quite a few short breaks away in recent years and so we have honed our packing for these self-catering trips. Inevitably in trips past, there has been something we needed that we have forgotten or not even thought of. We now have a shared note in our iPhone Notes app which lists… Continue reading Self Catering Packing Hacks
As someone who loves to read but also loves to keep track of things, I enjoy logging my reading in a number of ways. The most faithfully updated log is on goodreads.com - this is where my reading challenge is set and so long as I log a finished date for every book, it will… Continue reading How I Log My Reading
I go through phases of loving to cook for my family and phases of finding it the most indescribable torture to have to think of meals, day in day out. It is a part of adulthood that I did not expect and some days, the burden of providing food is overwhelmingly heinous. Cookbooks, therefore, offer… Continue reading 5 Cookbooks I Love
Notes From My Day 