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...
Carless Whispers – In Which Keris Finally Feels A Little Bit Smug.
Years ago, I looked after four children – aged 2, 5, 8 and 11 – while their parents were on holiday (I was young, I needed the money…). I had use of the mother’s car, but it had some sort of weird system where, when you stopped the car it had to kind of settle down and because it hadn’t settled before I’d turned the engine off… it broke. (I asked on Twitter what this wonder of technology would have been...
Pink Custard Recipe – 80s School Dinners Recipes
Hands up who’s here for the real genuine 80s school dinners pink custard recipe! What was it with pink custard? Lusciously gorgeous in colour and texture and comfort factor – and universally adored. Pink custard just made any school dinners pudding a real treat, no? Remember the sponge squares with a thin layer of jam and coconut on top? Or fudge tart squares (produced further to mucho requests from cornflake tart eaters)?...