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John Taylor – In the Pleasure Groove John Taylor’s Groove for your Pleasure! If my teenage fantasies had come true, I would have been Mrs John Taylor, you know! He and I would have met whilst Duran Duran toured Australia and of course he would have fallen madly in love with my Aussie-girl-next-doorness and whisked [...]

Driving with Dead People – A Summer Reading Recommendation   In need of a good summer reading recommendation? Summer holidays + a great book = BLISS, ooooooh yeah! You know that reading is a super-awesome pastime, right? Well lazing on holidays and enjoying a book that you’ve held onto – patiently waiting ages to read [...]

Bargain Books for Santa’s Sack   A bargain book = perfect gift! Disclaimer: This is not a sponsored post – I’m just a happy customer sharing the shopping love :) I’m a big lover of reading. I read daily and make sure that the kids do too as it’s so very important. Books, books, more books, never enough [...]

Child development and child education experts are on the same page when it comes to reading to and with your children. It is essential, they say, and every little bit helps. In fact, children should be read to for at least 20 minutes daily according to some leaders in the field. I remember speaking to [...]

I know that things have been quiet on the blog here and I’m sorry. Truly. We are in the midst of a living technological nightmare – just ask my teens! Once again, emphasis most certainly on AGAIN, we’ve run out of internet downloads for the month and the speed at which we’ve been shaped down [...]

You know I love my iPad – I think that I’ve told you that before …. even a couple of times, right? Well, one of my favourite apps has to be the Kindle app. I love the convenience of having a bookcase of reading material all at hand in a thin little light gadget that [...]