Hello everyone - hope you've all had a good Christmas. It's time for us to give you our last post on the blog for the year which, as always, is our annual End of Year Prizes for 2019, where we give awards out to the people, music, books, film, TV, podcasts and comedy we've loved … Continue reading Alex’s End of Year Prizes 2019
Happy December people! And it's a special blog tonight, as we announce this year's nominations for our sixth annual End of Year Prizes on the blog! As always on Boxing Day, we do a special blog post honouring those from music, film, TV, books and comedy we’ve absolutely loved in the last twelve months with … Continue reading Alex’s End of Year Prizes 2019: The Nominations (plus your chance to vote in Reader’s Choice)
Good evening gorgeous people - we are now on Day 4 of #15Daysof30Lists, where each day up to my 30th birthday on 26th August I am counting fifteen lists of 30 favourite things. Hope you're enjoying them so far! Don't forget this is an opportunity for you to learn more about yours truly as well … Continue reading #15Daysof30Lists: Day 4
Happy Boxing Day dear readers! We hope you've all had a lovely Christmas so far. As is always tradition on this corner of the internet, today we bring you our most important blog of the year, as we hand out our prizes to those we've loved across music, TV, books and film this year. This … Continue reading Alex’s End Of Year Prizes 2018
And just like that, we're in the final few weeks of yet another year. Which can only mean it's time for yours truly to announce the runners and riders for our annual End of Year Prizes on the blog! If you've missed this for the last four years, then fear ye not, for we shall … Continue reading Alex’s End Of Year Prizes 2018: The Nominations (plus your chance to vote in our Readers Choice!)
Hope you're all having a lovely Easter break! It's when the weather starts turning towards Spring again, that I am immediately seeking out some old literary favourites that evoke my fondest memories of this time of year in particular. This usually includes, but is not limited to: Wordsworth's famous Romantic poem 'The Daffodils', Arthur Ransome's … Continue reading Another perfect day: My ranking of favourite Beatrix Potter stories
I firstly have to apologise. There's been a distinct lack of #SongoftheWeek, #TweetHeeHee and indeed, any of the regular blog series these last couple of weeks. I can place the blame safely on recovering from this awful virus/cold doing the rounds that I have only just shifted, but which has left me rather low on energy to … Continue reading #BlastfromthePast: The Queen’s Nose
