#BookSnapSunday is a weekly bookish Instagram meme hosted here at Gum trees and Galaxies.com, if you would like to join in please feel free to leave a link to your post in the comments below. All you have to do is post an image of a book. Happy reading. So this weeks #BookSnapSunday features one … Continue reading #BookSnapSunday on the road with Witches Abroad
Journaling prompts and projects
Pixabay - image public domain I have long been an advocate for the value of journaling in all its many forms, a great tool in life long learning, self improvement, memories, making sense of life or even just creative fun. Sometimes though you can sit staring at a blank page and just not know what … Continue reading Journaling prompts and projects
April reading summary – nature and memoirs
Well April was at least a little better than March for reading but not much. I did read and finish John Bercow's memoir Unspeakable, which I quite enjoyed, although the details of UK political life won't be everyone's cup of tea. During the on going Brexit debacle I became intrigued by the UK parliaments controversial … Continue reading April reading summary – nature and memoirs
Inspiration – #BookSnapSunday
It has been an absolutely appalling week in regards to blogging, not only have I been failing to post, I have been really slack about checking in and reading other blogs, something I normally love doing but apathy and lockdown blues seem to have really taken hold over the last week BUT not any more! … Continue reading Inspiration – #BookSnapSunday
A classic for #BookSnapSunday
https://www.instagram.com/p/B_bui08FVvP/ A bit of a lazy #BookSnapSunday. I started dipping back into an old classic when I could not get to sleep and just could not seem to get into any of the new titles I have stacked up. Being unable to lose yourself in a book when you really want to, is just so … Continue reading A classic for #BookSnapSunday
Fairies at the bottom of the garden #BookSnapSunday
https://www.instagram.com/p/B_JJpA1J_WS/ This week's BookSnap is really just an excuse to feature my new paperblank journal. For many years I just used ordinary exercise books or notebooks as journals, I would tart them up a bit with adding covers of either fabric or decorative paper but they were still cheap notebooks. Then a few years ago … Continue reading Fairies at the bottom of the garden #BookSnapSunday
BookSnapSunday – Into the Forest
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-3DngNJWvr/ A few weeks ago I picked up a copy of Qing Li's Into the Forest. While on a short adventure to Wooyung we did go for a trip inland to Mullumbimby a great little town to stock up on groceries and enjoy a coffee or lunch. They also had a fantastic little bookshop and … Continue reading BookSnapSunday – Into the Forest
March reading, – nature reading
“She had so deep a kinship with the trees, so intuitive a sympathy with leaf and flower, that it seemed as if the blood in her veins was not slow-moving human blood, but volatile sap.” ― Mary Webb, Gone to Earth March has been a pretty bad month for reading for me, effectively I only finished … Continue reading March reading, – nature reading
#BookSnapSunday – Nature writing
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-Tv_NopsKb/ Just a quick book snap this week, feeling a bit slack. John Lewis-Stemple is one of my favourite nature writers, Meadowland The private life of an English field is a surprisingly compelling account of a year in the life of a sheep paddock and The Running Hare is a just as compelling account of … Continue reading #BookSnapSunday – Nature writing
Is this becoming my Journal of a Plague Year – #BookSnapSunday
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-BSQYlp1jG/ Bit frustrated this morning; went out to get a coffee and go to the dog park to take this weeks BookSnap but forgot my phone, some days I don't think I am actually fully awake until the second cup of coffee. Anyhow thought I would grab Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year from … Continue reading Is this becoming my Journal of a Plague Year – #BookSnapSunday
