I hope you are all staying safe and dry today as Storm Claudia rages through the UK. I did manage a walk around the block with the dog without getting blown away, but the bins hadn’t fared as well. There was cardboard everywhere. I really hope we don’t have flooding after all this rain. The village I used to live…
Ameliaranne Keeps School by Constance Ward, Illustrated by S.B. Pearse, 1940 This sweet series of books was published between 1920 and 1950, and features the kind and resourceful Ameliaranne Stiggins. Ameliaranne is often left in charge of her five younger siblings while her mother is at work as a washerwoman. Needless to say, things rarely go smoothly, but Ameliaranne always…
Happy Halloween to you! Here are the Bobbsey Twins putting the finishing touches to their pumpkin, taken from the vintage 1950s children’s book, The Bobbsey Twins at School by Laura Lee Hope. The Bobbsey Twins were two sets of fraternal twins: the older Nan and Bert and the younger Flossie and Freddie. Did you know, there were a whopping 72…
How’d you like them apples? This is a TINY portion of the apples picked from my two little trees this year. I have already gorged myself on apple crumble several times but it barely made a dent (in the apples, not my appetite). I think it may be time to dust off the jam pan. Apple pie is another option…
Cosy reads for autumn 🍁🍂 If you’re a fan of crisp autumn days, watching the birds and reading under a blanket with a brew, you are clearly a person after my own heart and will enjoy any of these. They’re all wonderfully comforting without being twee, and as good as a large cinnamon and oatmeal cookie and a pair of…