Desperate Reader

I have books waiting to be written about, and projects to consider, but after the redundancy news  and hard on it's heels some family dr...

It is unbearably hot and humid at the moment - neither my flat, or work are designed for temperatures in the mid 30's (nor am I really, ...

It's been a very long week, the tickets that I booked last Friday to see Measure for Measure on Wednesday already feels like it happened...

I started blogging here ten years ago towards the end of a year long hunt for a job after being made redundant twice within 6 months. It see...

The Michael Gilbert titles reprinted in the British Library Crime Classics series were so good that I'm keeping an eye out for more of h...

I’m not sure now what I expected from ‘The Seafarers’, I was interested it in for the Shetland and Orkney chapters, slightly wary about the ...

Another book that I've been looking forward to for a while. Before Pam’s River Cottage handbook on ‘Preserves’ (the 2nd in the series) c...

I meant to choose a Sylvia Townsend Warner to take on holiday with me, but I forget, and then didn't really read much whilst I was away ...

A few years ago we went to Edinburgh Castle, I'd previously seen it as a child and had romantic memories of it, D had never been, so it ...

When I started knitting again one of the first bits of kit I started looking for was a good squared note book. In the end I got a 5mm square...