Education

My mother never cooked. Her motto was "if it doesn't come out of a jar/box, I don't want to know about it". Truth be told, she was far more interested in her next girls-night-out, than preparing homemade, healthy meals for her family. So I never learned to cook as a girl. It was not until I moved in with my boyfriend (now husband), that I started to learn how to cook. It has been a long road, filled with many mistakes and culinary disasters.

I remember the first time I ever ...

Okay, so it is on everybody's "must read" list for 2012, and everybody is talking about it. In a time when book sales are at an all time low, E L James’ Fifty Shades trilogy were the bestselling books in the UK - in the week leading up to 16/5/2012, scoring combined sales of 112,388 copies. Book one, Fifty Shades of Grey, accounted for 45% of that total (50,582 copies), and took just shy of £215,000 through bookshop tills (according to thebookseller.com), and figures are much the same ...

I was killing time in a local bookshop the other day, when I spotted a copy of Virginia Andrews' "Flowers in the Attic" on sale. Well you know that I just had to grab it!! I remember reading Flowers in the Attic when I was about 12 years old. It was the first real "grown up" novel I ever read and I LOVED it!! I remember saving my birthday and Christmas money to buy the sequels (Petals on the Wind, If there be Thorns and Seeds of Yesterday - I still remember them!), and just ...

Mary Bennet - "In the wake of my sisters' weddings, an unusual peace fell on Longbourn. It was not so much that the place was quieter - Lydia's absence had already brought that about - it was more that by marrying off three of her daughters, my mother's purpose in life had been dulled,"

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This week I was very lucky to receive a copy of a recently released book, Mary Bennet by Jennifer Paynter. Jennifer Paynter is an ...

Tuesdays with Morrie - "Everyone knows they're going to die" Morrie said, "but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently."

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I wonder if you have read Tuesdays with Morrie? I truly believe that you cannot read this book without feeling touched. Without feeling like you want to run out and do everything, see everything, experience everything. I wonder just how many people live their lives as best as they can - unabashedly, ...