Christmas Book Haul

After posting my December book haul I've purchased/been gifted a few more books so thought I'd give them their own post rather than wait for January, I will say that historically the 12 days of Kindle sale on Amazon has been my downfall so I'm actually surprised this list isn't longer! Solar ~ The result…

WWW Wednesday ~ 23rd December 2020

The WWW tag runs weekly on Sam's blog, each W stands for a different 'What' to summarise you're last week in books. Happy Christmas Eve Eve! What are you currently reading? I'm onto my last few festive-themed books with A Literary Christmas: An Anthology and Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas; for a bit of balance…

Very Merry Readathon 2020 Wrap Up

The fifth round of Very Merry Readathon ran from 13th - 19th December and was a perfect excuse to get some Christmas reading in. The dates fell particularly well for me as I had a couple of days annual leave already booked which definitely helped in meeting all the prompts!Fantastic Mr Fox ★★★★☆Ghost of Christmas Past - A Book…

WWW Wednesday ~ 16th December 2020

The WWW tag runs weekly on Sam's blog, each W stands for a different 'What' to summarise you're last week in books. What are you currently reading? My current reads are all for Very Merry Readathon, I'm hoping to complete all the prompts by the time it ends on Saturday so fingers crossed! I'm hoping…

Festive Crochet

Last week I posted  photos of some of my first crochet projects but I left out some festive bits for their own dedicated post.Cast your mind back to August, it was summer, it was warm (at least in England it was) and what was I doing? Searching the internet for cute Christmas themed crochet projects…

Very Merry Readathon 2020 TBR

Very Merry Readathon is returning for a 5th year on the 13th December, I took part in this last year and really enjoyed it mostly because it introduced me to fireplace videos on YouTube and we've used those so much over the last year to add some much needed cosiness to our living room.This year all…

WWW Wednesday ~ 9th December 2020

The WWW tag runs weekly on Sam's blog, each W stands for a different 'What' to summarise you're last week in books. What are you currently reading? This week's festive themed reads are Christmas Days and A Boy Called Christmas, I'm enjoying both of these so far. I'm about two thirds of the way through…

Christmas Gift Guide 2020

Can you have Blogmas without a gift guide? Is anyone else feeling a lot less bothered about gifts this year? As cheesy as it sounds but all I want for Christmas this year is for my family to be able to be together and fingers crossed that can happen in some capacity! Last year I published a couple…

Calm Christmas ~ Beth Kempton

228 pages ~ ★★★★☆ ~ Hardback Calm Christmas and a Happy New Year is a beautifully presented guide to surviving the holiday period, focuses on pinpointing what's truly important about the festive period for you, and those you'll spend it with; the idea being when you focus on what's important to you and stop worrying about what…

Jolabokaflod ~ Suggestions for my Husband?

If you've not heard of it Jolabokaflod is an Icelandic tradition of exchanging books on Christmas Eve which has (according to my internet research) taken place in Iceland since the 1940s. You exchange your book presents and then get to spend the evening getting cosy with your new books and maybe a hot chocolate. Sounds…