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Summer Reading Challenge 2020: Book Recommendations

The Summer Reading Challenge is always a key feature of our summer. It’s a great way to keep children reading over the holidays, and this year children can sign up online, setting their own target for the number of books they want to read. Once they’ve read a book they Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 3 years2 years ago

What are the top five regrets of the dying?

I recently finished reading this book by Bronnie Ware; she was a nurse caring for people at the end of their lives, and wrote this book listing the top five things most of her clients said they regretted. The book is about so much more than that, and definitely worth Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 3 years2 years ago
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5 Simple Ways to Encourage Your Child to Read

Learning to read can be a tricky business. Each morning S sits and reads her school reading book to me. Some days she manages the whole book; other days she barely manages one page without giving up. Some days I barely manage one page before I want to scream in Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 5 years1 year ago
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My Summer Reading List

I buy – and read – a lot of books. There is a teetering stack of books next to my desk downstairs, another in the living room, and three next to my bed – as well as two book cases crammed with books! My “TBR” pile is ridiculous, so I’ve Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 6 years6 years ago
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5 Books that Helped me Get Over a Breakdown

It’s hard to get over a nervous breakdown. When you’re stuck in the midst of it, it feels like nothing will ever be normal again; there’s no way back to life. When I had a breakdown, I stopped sleeping, eating and reading. The sleeping was the worst part, closely followed Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 7 years3 years ago
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My 5 Favourite Blogging Books

I love to read books about blogging. There are so many available on Kindle, I download them and consume them like there’s no tomorrow. Even if I don’t learn anything new from them, they keep me inspired to be better with my blog… and hopefully they have helped me to Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 8 years3 years ago

Quality Time

  It occurred to me this weekend that it’s entirely possible my sister has spent more quality time with S than I have, over the last month. Between moving house, trying to fit packing and unpacking in around work, and a bunch of other stuff I won’t go into, my Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 8 years8 years ago

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