Douglas and Connie: scientist and artist, and for more than twenty years, husband and wife – until suddenly, their marriage seems over. But Douglas is going to win back the love of his wife and the respect of Albie, their teenage son, but organising the holiday of a lifetime. He has booked the hotels, bought […]
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I don’t have chocolate cravings all that often, but when I do, I usually make my chocolate brownies – my very first recipe on this blog and the only one I know completely by heart. However, I’d recently seen a YouTube video by CupcakeJemma in which she makes chocolate brownie cookies. This intrigued me! Brownies, in cookie form? […]
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It’s not that Janey Sinclair isn’t pleased to see her sister, she just wishes she could have arrived in less dramatic style. Being woken up at seven in the morning by Maxine, complete with borrowed wedding dress and police escort, isn’t quite how she’d planned to start her Sunday. Still, life’s never dull when Maxine’s […]
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This will be a sticky post until Sunday, August 23th. Regular posting will continue as usual. As I announced a few days ago, I will be participating in the Bout of Books readathon this week. I’m three books behind on my Goodreads challenge, so this seems like a perfect opportunity to play catch up! I’m so looking […]
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As some of you may know (especially if you follow me on Instagram) I recently got back from a holiday in Malta. I spent two amazing(ly hot) weeks with four of my best friends on Gozo, the second island of Malta, in a beautiful village called Xlendì. We’d rented an apartment there, which turned out to […]
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In January I found out about this thing called the Bout of Books readathon and decided to join in the fun for the January edition. I had tons of fun with it and was pretty sad that I wasn’t able to join the May readathon because of university stuff. But next week the fourteenth edition […]
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Lately I’ve been daydreaming a lot about all the books I want to buy when I have some money again to do so (the summer months are expensive, guys, phewee!). I actually have a notepad lying lying next to my computer with a list entitled “Books I Must Get My Hands On ASAP” and it […]
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“Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this classic novel – a black man charged with attacking a white girl. Through the eyes of Scout and Jem […]
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Guys, I’ve got a good one for you today! I mean, a really really good one. I decided to make these mojito mini-muffins as a kind of experiment. It was one of my best friend’s birthday earlier this week, so I wanted to bake something nice for her. Mojitos are my favourite cocktails and although I’m […]
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Greetings, my blogging friends! It’s the end of July, which means it’s time for another monthly recap. By the time you’re reading this I’ll be in sunny Malta for a two week holiday with a few of my best friends. I’ve all been looking forward to this holiday for about two months and now it’s almost […]
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Books Baking and Blogging 