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A while back, I signed up for Penguin's Blog a Classic offer. They send you a (randomly selected) classic, you agree to write them a review within six weeks. Easy peasy! Especially when you get something like The Secret Garden. (Poor freelunch over at bookcrossing got one of Churchill's History of Britain during WW2 tomes. I got off disgracefully ( Read more... )

It's been raining, raining, raining for a week, and was forecast to rain, rain, rain for another week. And then, the weather guys got it wrong, and we had a sunny day today! (It won't last, I'm sure ( Read more... )

Had to head out to Ikea to get Miss Boo her very own Big Girl's Bed (her feet aren't poking out the end of the crib, but give her a couple more months...) so the whole family went on An hExpedition ( Read more... )

I've got all these receipts from the library in my diary, I think I'd better start summarising them here...

( Recent library finds for Mr Bear and Miss Boo )

I seem to have been ridiculously busy lately, but don't have much to show for it. Isn't it always the way ( Read more... )

Max wanted some little-sister-free time on the weekend, so his Daddy took him to the Powerhouse Museum. So Nell & I hit King St. We got a book for each member of the family at Better Read Than Dead (I got Sheridan Hay's The Secret of Lost Things; Mr TQD got They call me naughty Lola; Max got Rusty in the Thomas and Friends series; and Nell got Jez ( Read more... )

Pretty tiring, all up. Max & Nell are mostly better from their various bugs, but were at the stage of "pay *me* attention, Mummy/Daddy, not my sibling!!!"... So by the time I got home from work on Friday (bearing wine and beer; I just somehow knew it was going to be one of those nights), Mr TQD was looking a bit shattered. I sent him off for a ( Read more... )

Or the biblioteca, as we say when we don't want Max & Nell to know what we're talking about ( Read more... )

Happy Australian Day, everyone ( Read more... )