Half-term – how was it?
Oct31

Half-term – how was it?

I felt quite sad that we weren’t going on holiday in October half-term, but what was it like in reality? In reality, I didn’t miss being on holiday at all. I was actually too busy with work to even give it a thought. For many months, all through last autumn, last winter and into the spring I had very little work. Some months, I literally worked for two clients – the kids’ books I work on every month and a...

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Silent Sunday 29.10.17
Oct29

Silent Sunday 29.10.17

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Project 365 2017 Week 43
Oct28

Project 365 2017 Week 43

It’s half-term, but it hasn’t been a particularly fun or relaxing one. I’ve been very busy with work and the kids have done their own thing. Here’s our week in pictures… Day 273 – Sunday 22nd October – just three weeks after the Cheltenham half marathon, I decided to run another one! The Stroud half marathon went remarkably well and I was feeling on top of the world at the end, when I crossed...

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Last Breath by Robert Bryndza
Oct27

Last Breath by Robert Bryndza

This year I’ve been loving the Detective Erika Foster series by Robert Bryndza, so I was very excited when my friend lent me the fourth book in the series – Last Breath. And, just with the previous Erika Foster books, I loved it so much that I devoured it in three days flat. The tortured body of a young woman is found dumped in a communal bin. DCI Erika Foster is one of the first on the scene, but unfortunately it’s...

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The Bronze Jazz exam
Oct26

The Bronze Jazz exam

As well as her three ballet classes a week, my daughter does another class at the same school. We call it ‘tap’, but really it’s tap and something else – modern or jazz. I’ve never really been sure whether it’s modern or jazz or if they’re the same thing and, if not, what the difference is. She’s done less exams with this class. She did her Grade 1 tap three years ago and her Grade 2...

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