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  • Fancy Meeting You here!

    Welcome to my new, super-duper, all singing and dancing, fabulous new site. Looking good, eh? Since I have spent many hours in prettifying this, I plan on updating the blog more often. Book reviews and snippets of conversations with my mum will appear as they occur, but there should be a new post at least…

  • Z is for ZZZZZzzzzzzzzz…

    I was going to write this final post in the A to Z Challenge about Glasgow Zoo and the various small ‘zoos’ which existed all over the city in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but I am totally sick of the sound of my own voice and by. now, I’m sure I have sent…

  • Super Dooper Bestest Ever Blog Post™

    It doesn’t seem a year since the rubbish poem I wrote to celebrate my 50th birthday, but here we are, March 15th and I’m 51. Fifty-one. Good Gawd Almighty! How did that happen? I know they say time passes quickly when you’re having fun, but I haven’t laughed that much, even if the increase in…

  • Liebster Blog Award

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] Liebster is a German word meaning dearest, and the award is given to up-and-coming bloggers with less than 200 followers. It was my honour to receive my award from the lovely and talented Emma Pass whose debut YA novel ACID is being published in 2013. If you receive the award, you should: 1.…