Category: Stuff that doesn’t fit in another category

  • It all used to be so close!

    You’ve all seen the BBC’s “Shetland” now.  People mumbling in impenetrable accents (mostly Glaswegian, to be fair, you hear very little genuine Shetland on that show).  It’s bleak, grim, grey and miserable.  And it was, from time to time.  The long winter months, and there were far more of them than you have in England,…

  • #SilentSunday – 13th April 2014

  • World Book Day Giveaway 2014

    I’ve loved reading since I was small.  I distinctly remember hitting my head on the control box of a pedestrian crossing on my way home from the library because I had my head buried in the Winnie The Pooh book I’d just brought home. When I was 9 or 10, I read The Hobbit and…