My Little Notepad

My Little Notepad was my corner of the internet while I learned to blog, from around 2010 to 2019.

I have posts on all aspects of my life, writing, reading, and the early years of being a mother.

Tag: reading

  • No excuses…

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    … anywhere is a good place to read if you want to. These were all the same journey home this afternoon!  That’s my boy :-) Read more

  • Words

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    There’s a song I used to love, twelve years ago when my husband and I started going out. It’s Words, originally I believe by the BeeGees but in ’99 when Andrew and I met it had just been covered by *shameful whisper* Boyzone. It has lovely lyrics, but it’s the refrain that’s the killer: It’s… Read more

  • Exploding Ebooks

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    Having just read yet another diatribe about ebooks – along the lines of real books smell lovely and feel lovely and I love secondhand bookshops and is the real book dead? I don’t think so – I went away, had a quick seethe, and have returned to calmly put down a couple of my thoughts on… Read more

  • First Words

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    You might be forgiven for assuming that the first words I’m talking about are Emily’s. But no. Daniel has been astounding us lately with his progress in writing. A couple of weeks ago he showed us how good he was at writing numbers – he did 1, 2, 3 and within a couple of days… Read more

  • ABBA Lit Fest!

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    One of my favourite blogs is the Awfully Big Blog Adventure. It’s run by the Scattered Author Society, a group of very talented children’s authors who take turns writing some fascinating posts. If you’re interested in children’s writing, as a writer, reader or parent (or general busybody) it’s definitely a site to bookmark. So imagine… Read more