Day Seventy-Four – Saturday 30th May – Today was BUSY! I got up early to get to Sainsubry’s with my Dad. He was doing he usual shop, I was shopping for the meal I was going to make, plus things for lunches during the week and snacks of a varying nature of healthy to unhealthy….
May Roundup 2020
May passed in a blur. Honestly, I’ve never known a month to go so quickly. I think that by May I’d settled into working from home and life had formed a new routine. I didn’t end up reading as much as I did in April but then I spent more time doing things other than…
#43. The Wizards of Once: Twice Magic by Cressida Cowell
Witches are creating havoc in the Wildwoods and danger lurks behind every tree trunk. Wish is in possession of a powerful, Magic Spelling Book; Xar has a dangerous Witchstain on his hand. Together they can save the Wildwoods from the curse of the Witches but they are separated by the highest wall imaginable, and time…
#42. A Girl Called Justice: The Smugglers’ Lodge by Elly Griffiths
When Justice returns for spring term at Highbury House, it’s not long before murder is back on her mind. Assigned to look after the elderly Mr Arthur in Smugglers’ Lodge on the other side of the marshes from school, Justice is initially dismayed. But dismay quickly gives way to intrigue as she finds herself drawn…
#41. Evernight by Ross Mackenzie
Thousands of years ago, the Evernight came to the Silver Kingdom and turned everything to darkness and chaos. It was only defeated thanks to the skill and bravery of the Witches. But now the Evernight is about to return, released by the evil Mrs Hester, and the only spell that might stop it is lost,…
#40 Matilday by Roald Dahl
Matilda is the world’s most famous bookworm, no thanks to her ghastly parents. Her father thinks she’s a little scab. Her mother spends all afternoon playing bingo. And her headmistress, Miss Trunchbull? She’s the worst of all. She’s a big bully, who thinks all her pupils are rotten and locks them in the dreaded Chokey….
Living Through COVID-19 Pandemic – Week 11 – Saturday 23rd May – Friday 29th May
Day Sixty-Seven – Saturday 23rd May – So, I actually didn’t go to Sainsbury’s today, thought I’d try to survive with what I had for a week, so I got to enjoy a lovely lie in this morning. I didn’t put my alarm on, so I slept in till 10:30am and enjoyed every second of…
Living Through COVID-19 Pandemic – Week 10 – Saturday 16th May – Friday 22nd May
Day Sixty – Saturday 16th May – So, today started well and then ended up being a bit of a disaster but you’ll be surprised to know that it wasn’t because of a migraine. I got up early to get to Sainsbury’s and for the first time since lockdown began, there was no queue to…
#39 James and the Giant Peach
Paperback |150 pages Publisher: Penguin Random House UK (2016, as part of a set of 15 books) Read – Thursday 14th May, 2020. I’m pretty sure I read this as a kid, but I can’t be 100% certain. It’s definitely one of Roald Dahl’s stories that I know more. There’s a lovely poem in the…
#38 The Lantern Men by Elly Griffiths
Everything has changed for Dr Ruth Galloway. She has a new job, home and partner, and is no longer North Norfolk police’s resident forensic archaeologist. That is, until convicted murderer Ivor March offers to make DCI Nelson a deal. Nelson was always sure that March killed more women than he was charged with. Now March…
At the End of the World is a Book 