On Wednesday I finished re-reading the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman for the first time in quite a while, which was very enjoyable. One of the things I was discussing with my sister Becky was what daemon we’d each have. A daemon, for those of you who haven’t read the books, is part […]
Hello! I’m back from my weekend away at home. I had a nice time – it was good to see everyone again, in particular Uncle Bernie and Cousin Ben who were visiting. Uncle Bernie now lives in Australia, so I don’t see him very often! One of the interesting things I discovered while researching for […]
Rich and Sarah have both commented that Artemis Fowl isn’t as bad as all that. I’ll say now that I don’t think that Artemis Fowl is the worst book anywhere in the world across all of history. But it is one of the ones that annoyed me the most on reading it, and it embodies […]
Two weeks today until I head off to university – eeek! Today I went to Aberystwyth, one of the bigger towns within relatively easy reach of where I live, to do some shopping in preparation for that momentous event. I hardly ever shop for clothes, and so I both needed quite a lot of stuff […]