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The Great Food Blogger Cookie Exchange 2011

I took ages to find a suitable recipe. My ongoing sciatica and the subsequent leg pain seriously impacted on the time I could stand, so I enlisted the help of Mum! Anyway, I looked on line and through every cookbook … Continue reading

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Stay Tuned by Lauren Clark

As part of this special promotional extravaganza sponsored by Novel Publicity, the price of the Stay Tuned eBook edition has dropped to just 99 cents this week.What’s more, by purchasing this fantastic book at an incredibly low price, you can enter to … Continue reading

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Weekend Cooking – Chicken Meal (Slow Cooker)

A few weeks ago I stopped by one of the regular blogs that I read. There I spotted a easy recipe that I could cook without too much pain and discomfort. It was so easy and smells very tasty as … Continue reading

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Carnival Of Genealogy 112 – An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving

Here in the UK we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving. We do, or we did when I was at school take part in Harvest Festivals.  For this Carnival of Genealogy are am going to do some imaging, based up the facts surrounding … Continue reading

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Book Meme – Day 11 – A book you hated

This had to be By Grand Central Station I sat down and wept by Elizabeth Smart. Image courtesy of Amazon Back in 1994 I was living in South East London and undertaking an English Literature module at the Middlesex University. This was … Continue reading

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Book Meme – Day 10 – Favorite classic book

My favourite classic book has to be A Room with a View by E. M. Forster. The image here is courtesy of Amazon, but replicates my copy here. According to the receipt inside I purchased from Waterstones at Guildford for … Continue reading

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Description of the Island of St. Helena

Written by an Officer in the Honourable East India Company and published in The News on Sunday 13th August 1815. Description of the Island of St Helena Rugged rocks and lofty mountains,Interspers’d with crystal fountains,Here and there a grove of … Continue reading

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Book Meme – Day 09 – A book you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving

I heard lots of hype over the Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon. The hype both on line and off, I could not even go to the doctors without one of the receptionists asking if I had ever read the series. … Continue reading

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Book Meme – Day 08 – Most overrated book

I am probably going to be fairly controversial here, but, I think The Sense of an Ending is an overrated book. The storyline is about three lads who form a friendship and are then joined by a fourth lad. This … Continue reading

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Book Meme – Day 07 – Most underrated book

This is a tough question to answer; in fact, I am not sure that there is an answer, as this is subjective to the book matter and the reader. The success of a book is to me the following – … Continue reading

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