Hello, Thank you very much to all our readers for joining us on the blog for another year. We'll be taking a break until January but before then...
An easy and delicious recipe for chestnut hummus
‘Dear Mrs Bird’, by A.J. Pearce – a book review
Hello, September always feels like a good time to curl up with a book and so we'd like to tell you about a novel we've both loved, 'Dear Mrs Bird' by A. J Pearce...
Now that April’s here
Hello, We hope everyone is keeping safe and well and send a warm welcome to our new followers. Here's our monthly selection of small steps for living life well, even as we're all enduring this strange time together. We've collected some cheering ideas, links and images which we hope you will enjoy. Something to…
A Child’s Christmas in Wales – a book recommendation
The Staircase 9 17 Bookshelf choice for December is A Child's Christmas in Wales, by Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953) It's a nostalgic and funny account of Christmas time in Swansea, south Wales, during the years of Thomas's youth. Here's the description of what happens when there is a fire at the Prothero household:…