Desperate Reader

This has not been a great week work wise - due to some oversights far above the shop floor my own particular challenge is to find a home f...

Prospect Books asked me if I would like a copy of this as Laos is now the place to go in South East Asia, I would unhesitatingly say yes...

I had meant to write about Diana Henry's 'Food From Plenty' tonight - actually I've been meaning to write about it for we...

Oh dear, I meant this post to go out on Saturday but I'm still miserable with my cold (and if it sounds like man flu than it probably i...

Prospect books sent me ' The Treatise of Walter of Bibbesworth  ' a month or two back - my initial response was one of slight trepi...

Winter made an unwelcome return today - when it wasn't raining it was snowing, and although I don't doubt the garden will be appr...

You will never know how hard I fought against the urge to use some sort of pun in the title for this post but I successfully resisted. I ...

I’ve been feeling slightly sorry for myself recently, work has been hard with no promise of let up until after Christmas (actually it’s ...

On Mondays I generally finish at lunchtime which is nice, but this is after getting up at 6am to be at work in the first place which I d...

Today has been a despondent sort of occasion – no reason for the mood, it should on the whole have been a happy sort of a day, but there’s ...

There’s something about a bank holiday weekend that calls for a project, so far I’ve spent the afternoon reading about building a wood-fired...

I’ve spent the last 3 days (3 days is a long time) on what I’ve come to think of as a marmalade project. Not just making marmalade you under...

Today was the day I wanted to start Christmas shopping...and then I looked at my bank balance. By the time the shock and despair lifted my a...

My job is changing – wine selling activities are moving across town into a big new shiny shop which doesn’t leak and smells of paint. It’s a...

Thank you to everyone who commented and emailed, sadly only one book to give away and it’s going to Clover Heather. I hope it answers all yo...

What with holiday reading, holiday book hunting, some very exciting book donations, and a sneaky amazon purchase, a lot of very good bookish...