A book that I've re-read many times over the years is Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman. I love it! The book is a wonderful collection of essays about books and reading. I first encountered it through Bookcrossing, which I took part in longer ago th...

I feel as though it hasn't been that long since I last shared my to be read pile, but it has changed so much that I thought I would share an update!

It is certainly very manageable, even including the hidden downloaded books th...

The World's Most Difficult Jigsaw Puzzle series was released in the 90s, and as a huge cat fan and lover of jigsaw puzzles I was given this Kittens Edition puzzle when I was a teenager. I'm not usually one to choose very difficult puzzles, but I couldn't resist the image on this one, and I remember solving it without too much difficulty. 

I'm used to my husband being away for work one or two nights a week, but occasionally he goes away for a longer stretch. Recently he was away for over a week, and now that the children don't need my attention quite as much as they used to I enjoyed having some time to myself.

The first thing that I did was to build myself a 'nest'. I set myself up on the sofa in our ora...

When it comes to AI I am conflicted. I can see many advantages to the technology, and I have been very impressed with some of the ways that I've used AI. But I'm also worried about the future - already a huge amount of the content that I see online is AI generated and it is becoming more and more difficult to tell what is real. Not to mention the number of jobs which are at t...