Good Reads

I love the beginning of October – the leaves start to turn, crunching under foot, decorating lawns and driveways like confetti. Then, incrementally, I realise that I am getting up in …

September is all about going back: Back to School, back to work, back to the normal routine, looking back on a great summer holiday and missing it when the alarm …

On the school run home today I wound down the window whilst my daughters and I squealed with delight: we saw the first of our daffodils had opened. There are bumblebees …

Despite February being absurdly cold at points I feel Spring may be on the horizon. There are snowdrops in the chicken pen and the daffodils are beginning to poke through …

I don’t know where the Christmas break went, but whilst you were busy enjoying the break from the alarm clock and trying to figure out where you were going to …

Hello! And welcome to Good Reads December 2014- the last for 2014. So this is it- in a week it will all be over, we’ll be pushing towards 2015 and …

The great decline to Christmas has begun now that Halloween is over. The Ads are all over the TV, the Strictly Come Dancing Contestants have been whittled down to the …

Bonjour friends, strangers and Doctor Who Fans, how are we this splendid afternoon? Happy to have the school routine back in place? Grieving the passage of time that means your …

So how’s it going? How are the children? How are you enjoying the summer holidays? At the moment of writing I am five weeks in and counting the days until …