So, in a desperate attempt to avoid doing any housework I decided to make a lasagne for tea. Not usually much of an issue except that I hadn't got any lasagne sauces in the cupboard. Cue panic. I guessed that a normal pasta sauce would be an acceptable replacement for the tomato part of the… Continue reading Lasagne…an entertaining interlude!
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‘There’s More To Life Than Meanwood.’
I did most of my growing up in the kind of Shropshire town where everybody knows everybody else and there are certain family names that seem to crop up everywhere you turn. People seem to live in Wem, grow up in Wem, work in Wem or in one of the near by towns and raise… Continue reading ‘There’s More To Life Than Meanwood.’
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Soundtrack Saturday
Pick a Book. Pick a song you think fits it. Simples! Today I'm choosing Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma, which I will be reviewing shortly. It is a book that focuses on a subject considered taboo by almost everyone everywhere. Incest. Not my usual type of book but a brilliant one despite everything that could be… Continue reading Soundtrack Saturday
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Something Quiet
I watched my guinea pig die today. I don't know what was wrong but he just lay there when we opened the hutch to give them hay. I picked him up and lay him out on his own little bed of hay and stroked him. He was gasping irregularly through his mouth and shuddering every… Continue reading Something Quiet
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Review: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (SBRC#3)
I'm writing this review as my entry for the Summer Break Reading Challenge Activity #3. Published: 2002, Picador (UK) Summary: Susie Salmon is fourteen. She is also dead. In this heart-wrenching story, Susie tells the story of her mysterious disappearance back in 1973. She narrates from heaven - a nice place that is surprisingly like… Continue reading Review: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (SBRC#3)
Carole Finds Her Wings 