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Guest Post: The Princess Bride Review by Amy

Abby has very kindly allowed me to write a guest post on her lovely blog, and so I am now going to attempt to write a review of the hilariously epic movie The Princess Bride, inserting as many quotes...

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Guest Post: A Tale of Two Cities Review by Miss Laurie

When Abby issued her Charles Dickens Reading Challenge at the beginning of this year A Tale of Two Cities was quickly put at the top of my list. This is the first of the three Dickens novels I'm...

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Day 1: A Favourite Poem

[This was originally going to be posted tomorrow, but since I have a Jubilee post planned for then, I decided to post this now. All the other posts in this series will be posted on even days of the...

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Jubilee Weekend!

The bunting is back up!The Jubilee Weekend started yesterday, and although we were debating what exactly is the right time to put up one’s bunting (we have such riveting discussions in our household)...

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Day 2: A Favourite Recipe

I love making brownies, and I love peanut butter, so when I found this recipe recently, I was thrilled! I haven’t actually tried it out yet, but I definitely will be in the coming weeks, so I wanted to...

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Day 3: A Favourite Quote

I am a collector of quotes – I have well over 200 favourites on Goodreads! Trying to choose one is impossible, so for today’s post I’m going to share two sayings and a literary quote I try and live my...

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Day 4: A Favourite Artwork

I don’t ever really have elaborate reasons for liking paintings, but I think in this case the title says it all really!sym·pa·thythe feeling of compassion or concern for another, and the wish to see...

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Day 5: A Favourite Month

This year I think July is going to end up being my favourite month. Lots of lovely things like prom, going to Poland with my choir and helping with friends at a local holiday camp are happening :) I...

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Day 6: A Favourite Joke (sort of)

This isn’t precisely a joke (I can never remember good jokes, so I have no idea why I decided to put this into the challenge, but anyway) but I saw this a while ago and it made me chuckle!In July of...

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Day 7: A Favourite Piece of Music

I’m hoping to do a full length post in the future about all my favourite classical pieces, but for now here’s just one of them. I fell in love with this piece the first time I heard it, even though...

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Emma Week Tag!

~ Beware spoilers ahead! If you aren’t familiar with the story of Emma a) get thee to the library post-haste! and b) you may want to skip this post! ~Did you read the book or watch an adaption...

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Day 8: A Favourite Photo

Hurrah for nerdy science jokes!I always vowed to hate Physics – I’ve always been terrible at it, had less than inspiring teachers, and had to spend far too long learning about the more boring side of...

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Day 9: A Favourite Book

Over the past few weeks I’ve been making my way through the start of the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery. After meaning to read the books for absolutely ages, I finally did! So far...

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Day 10: A Favourite Song (or two)

Kilkenny, IrelandIreland is such a beautiful place with a truly fascinating history. I’d love to visit someday! Gaelic music has always been a favourite of mine, but I recently discovered these two...

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Day 11: A Favourite Person

Okay, so yet again I’m breaking my own rules – go ahead and tut at me if you will! But is the fact that one of my favourite people is a) not human and b) there are two of them that much of an issue?...

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Day 12: A Favourite Video

Any eagle-eyed readers will have noticed that I changed Day 12 from A Favourite Blog to A Favourite Video…I follow so many different blogs for so many different reasons that I didn’t think it was...

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Day 13: A Favourite Author

Although I have written a lot about Jane Austen on this blog, I feel like my favourite author has been a little neglected of late. So I thought that for this post I’d list seven reasons why I know...

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Day 14: A Favourite Character

~ A Quick Note: I don’t think there’s anything too spoilerish in the videos and this post in general, but I'm warning you in advance just in case! ~When I heard that were more fans of Doctor Who...

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Day 15: A Favourite Place

Two years ago I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to visit stay with a French family in Paris. We visited a number of famous sites and monuments while we were there, and Montmartre was...

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My Reading Habits

Reading on a Sunlit Afternoon, Allan R Banks~I saw this tag at Jillian’s wonderful book blog, A Room of One’s Own~Do you snack while you read? If so, favourite reading snack: I don’t usually snack when...

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