It’s National Bookstart Week!
Yes, we missed it yesterday, but we’re catching up fast, honest. Bookstart offers the gift of free books to all children at three key ages before they start school, to inspire a love of reading that will give children a flying start in life. You should receive them via your health visitor/pre-school/nursery – so if your child has not had one and is still under school age, do go and ask in your local library, and...
Spotted! Writing Set For Children – Total Bargain!
Yes. that’s Right. The iconic ‘Guess How Much I Love You’ by Sam McBratney. Along with a writing set which includes paper, envelopes and stickers. All from the The Book People for £2.99. Teach your children the disappearing art of writing a letter. Make their grandparents smile. Why are you still here? GO! Buy! For your children. For presents. And get one for yourself while you’re at it. Send me a beeyootiful...
50 Books Every Child Should Read
You know how sometimes, you read something that makes you want to talk about it? Yesterday, I received one of those mails. It was just a newsletter, from one of my favourite Secondhand Booksellers, AbeBooks. By the time I made it to the end, I was buzzing. This is a very clipped part of the article, reproduced with kind permission from Richard Davies of AbeBooks – you can see the original article here. “Reading should be...
Childhood CFS – M.E. in children for Awareness Week.
We don’t do much serious spouting here on LittleStuff, but what’s the point of owning a web site with thousands of visitors if I don’t actually use it occasionally, huh? So. It’s M.E. Awareness Week this week. I’m far too busy to be anything like a proper, proactive fundraiser and go bake cakes or shave heads or something. So instead, I’ll do what I do best. I’ll ramble on a bit, and tell you...
Mothers Day Idea #7 – The Prettiest of Notebooks *Swoon*
To paraphrase poorly, it’s a fact universally acknowledged that a woman loves stationery. It is. I’ve never yet met a female who didn’t breathe an “oooh!” at the site of a pretty notebook. And, I have to say, as many notebooks as I have, my newest biggest tippety-toppest faves are Paperblanks. Beautiful designs, without being pretty-but-no-point books, they’re manufactured in a sustainable...
The Four, The Laundry, The Life… In Which I Am A Bona Fide Rescue Hero.
Rather a long time ago now, I began a regular column right here on LittleStuff – ‘The Four, the Laundry, The Life…’, a weekly chunter about anything I fancied, really, your usual mumblings about life in a busy house with four children and two businesses to run. But as so often happens The Other Stuff got a bit in the way, and the column took a back seat. However, tired of the incessant nagging from Certain...