by Hannah | Jul 19, 2017 | From Hannah, How She (or he) Does It
I turned 38 on Monday. On learning it was my birthday several people asked me if it was a “big one”. I’m assuming they weren’t guessing I was turning 30. Hmmmm. The last years of a decade are weird. It’s not an elegant way to describe it, I know, but...
by Hannah | May 10, 2017 | Books & Reading, From Hannah, Kids and Parenting
Last week we went to our local library (only the BEST LIBRARY IN THE UNIVERSE) and for the first time B1 snuck off to a cosy corner to read by herself. B2 was still keen for me to read to her (read as: shove a book at me before proceeding to wrestle my body into a...
by Ria Voros | Jan 26, 2017 | Books & Reading, From Ria
It’s that time of year again…yes, the time when the year’s new books start to be released into the world and I wonder how much more space I can find on my already double-stacked book shelves. I have way more books than I can read in a year. Probably in decade. Let’s...
by Hannah | Dec 14, 2016 | Books & Reading, From Hannah, Kids and Parenting, Seasonal
You might not know it but we are currently neck deep in Jolabokaflod. This is the word to describe the book-buying phenomenon that occurs in Iceland between September and December, gearing up for their book-giving tradition on Christmas Eve. It translates as...
by Ria Voros | Mar 31, 2016 | Books & Reading, Food, From Ria, Kids and Parenting, Seasonal
We’re through it now and flowers are everywhere, but for a while it was all doom and gloom and torrential rain around here. Typical “wet coast” weather that makes you long for summer–or a plane ticket to NZ, where it is summer…...
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