Today, I'm delighted to host Bright One by Lisajoy Sachs. The book is on a blog tour with The Coffee Pot Book Club: The Coffee Pot Book Club: Blog Tour: Bright One by Lisajoy Sachs About the Book When desperate choices mean the difference between life and death....
Hello, and welcome to my January Newsletter. Happy New Year, everyone, and may the year bring you everything you wish for. We had a lovely first Christmas in our new home, catching up with family and friends, and generally lazing around, eating and drinking too...
In our childhood, we all enjoyed hearing ancient nursery rhymes recited to us, and those of you of a similar age to me have probably continued the tradition and sung them to your children and grandchildren, but have you ever wondered how they originated? I thought I...
Hello, and welcome to my December Newsletter. I'm so pleased to tell you that we've finally moved house! It's been a stressful year, but we are delighted with our new home. Those of you who are regular readers will know that we had a large garden...
Hello, and welcome to my November 2025 Newsletter. At the end of September, Bryan and I visited Porto, which is the second-largest city in Portugal. I must confess, it's a city I'd never heard of, although since mentioning our visit to friends, it seems it's...
Hello, and welcome to my October Newsletter. What a lovely summer we had this year, followed, in Devon at least, by weeks of rain that didn't seem to know when to stop. However, we couldn't grumble because the gardens were in desperate need of rain, so...
Hello, and welcome to my September Newsletter. It was my birthday in August, and Bryan and I had planned to spend a couple of days with our youngest son, David, and his wife, Jenny, in South Devon. However, they were both quite...
Today, I'm delighted to host Everything We Thought We Knew by Carolyn Niethammer. The book is on a blog tour with The Coffee Pot Book Club: https://thecoffeepotbookclub.blogspot.com/2025/08/blog-tour-everything-we-thought-we-knew-by-carolyn-niethammer.html About the...
Today, I'm delighted to host The Herb Knot by Jane Loftus. The book is on a blog tour with The Coffee Pot Book Club, and you can read all about it here: https://thecoffeepotbookclub.blogspot.com/2025/07/blog-tour-the-herb-knot-by-jane-loftus.html About the Book The...
Hello, and welcome to my August Newsletter. As I write this, it's drizzling outside, and the garden is loving it. After the heatwave, everything was parched, and I was tired of watering, but now the lawn is recovering, and the plants are...
Today, I'm delighted to host The Winding Dirt Road by Jiu Da The book is on a blog tour with The Coffee Pot Book Club: https://thecoffeepotbookclub.blogspot.com/2025/07/blog-tour-the-winding-dirt-road-by-jiu-da.html About the Book Written as an antithesis to all...
Today, I'm delighted to host Ping by Lisa Lucas & Steve Landsberg and narrated by Elle Reimer The book is on a blog tour with The Coffee Pot Book Club: https://thecoffeepotbookclub.blogspot.com/2025/06/blog-tour-ping-by-lisa-lucas-and-steve-landsberg.html About...