Morning Bookophiles 💖🎉🎂📚.
It’s finally here, my embarkation into a new decade😃. Part of me is wondering how am I, 50 years old today but fortunately I got suitably distracted by my birthday book haul & other goodies 😆🔖🎂🎉📚⬇️⬇️ 💖📚🔖⬇️
#NationalBookLoversDay
Well Bookophiles, my HBs & some proofs are carefully stored for ease of access in my hall😄💖📚. Sometimes I just sit on the stairs & peruse my next potential read & how to successfully retrieve said book from my stacks 📕 👍📚💖📚⬇️⬇️
#BookJenga
😆📚⬇️
Ooops😂😂❤️📚...I went to do my supermarket shop & naturally I had to look at the book aisle😆...at which point I lost all self control & bought all these ⬇️😂😂❤️😂📚📚...we won’t mention the 5 ebooks I bought before I left home😂😂📚❤️📚
My partner is currently in hospital (not Covid related) & really isn’t well, it could be a serious problem but we just don’t know yet🥲& I am 200 miles away & trying to support him via FT. Today he surprised me with these🌸💕🌺⬇️⬇️
Morning bookophiles 📚💖🪴🌱🌺🌸. I have been up a while, at my desk😬😮💨. I have had a frothy coffee ☕️ but feel a bit headachy so moved on to Lemon 🍋 tea👍. I decided to have a little potter round my courtyard (deadheading) it’s starting to look very pretty 🤩
Hello bookophiles 📚💖. Sorry for the silence from me. Yesterday the Big Man 🏴 was told he has tumours in his bladder (so cancer) which has obviously shocked & scared us both😭😱. In the next 4-6 weeks, they are going to surgically removed them & ascertain the situation 👍🙏🏻
Morning bookophiles 💖📚🎂😄. Today is my 49th Birthday 🎂 & I have no idea, how time has passed so quickly 😆💖. I am off to have breakfast/ brunch at
#TheIvyYork
with the Big Man 🏴 & my Aged Parents ☕️🥓. Bring on the frothiest coffee 🎂🎉😄.
Evening bookophiles 📚💖.
I am having a quiet day on social media. As my focus today, is on the Big Man 🏴 who is having surgery to remove the tumours in his bladder 👍. Hopefully he will be home tomorrow 💖. Just waiting for an update on his condition from the hospital 👍
On the 8th Jan, I put my partner on a train home. He said, see you in a few weeks❤️👍. Little did we know that would mean 35 weeks😱☹️. Thank goodness for FaceTime 😀👍 but today that wait is over & I get my first cuddle at about 4.35pm.❤️❤️😁
Morning Bookophiles 📚🎄💖☔️😀. Anyone guess where the Big Man 🏴 & I are, despite the dreadful weather?☔️☔️. This is the pre-book buying frothy coffee. As I write this, I am having a post book buying frothy coffee at the lovely
@WaterstonesYork
🎄💖☔️📚⬇️
Afternoon bookophiles, I am back at home, after my trip out, there were bacon 🥓 rolls, frothy coffees & lemon meringue cheese cake😆💖. Then I embarked on some dedicated book liberation from my favourite charity shops, here’s my haul📚😄💖⬇️⬇️⬇️📚💖⬇️🔖💖⬇️
Morning bookophiles ❤️📚😀, this is a blue footed boobie & one of my favourite birds & I thought he might make you smile. I am working & drinking a latte. Audiobook on❤️📚👍what are you reading today 📚?
Evening my lovely bookophiles 💖📚, thank you for all your kind words today. The Big Man 🏴💖, is still in hospital, hooked up to various tubes & oxygen 👍💖. He is better than yesterday 💖, when I thought he might actually stop breathing 😮💨😬😬😮💨😱😭
I am wearing a mask
Today was supermarket shopping 🛒 day & I wonder if you can guess which aisle I lavished my attention on🤣🤣📚♥️⬇️ & most of my overtime money 🤣🤣🤣. There were so many gorgeous books to choose from & could resist the pops or post-its🤣📚♥️
Afternoon bookophiles 📚💖. In the face of HRT adversity, I have given up & decided comfort eating large lemon 🍋 & raisin danishes is the only answer today😄💖⬇️⬇️
Morning bookophiles 📚💕. These are my Aged Ps they have been married for 51 years today🎉🥂🍾. Normally we would have a lovely breakfast out but we can’t this year😞. My dad is the person who introduced me to books & reading 📚💕😀⬇️⬇️⬇️🎉🥂🍾
Today is my food shop day & my dad sent me a text saying he would like to treat me to some luxury items...can you imagine the speed in which I headed to the book 📚 aisle, I couldn’t resist the lama pots or tulips 🌷 & piles of discounted Easter chocolate 🍫🌷❤️
This is the resigned face of the big man before we go to Waterstones 😆😆😆📚♥️, doesn’t he look thrilled 😆♥️. I bought him a Costa coffee first though😆♥️☕️
Afternoon bookophiles 📚😄💖. I thought you might like to see my little book haul from my trip to Knaresborough yesterday & some lovely new bookmarks 🔖😄📚💖⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️💖😄🔖📚
Today is a new & very scary experience for me, I have procrastinated enough my rather simple blog is out there & below is my first review. I have lots to learn❤️📚
Morning bookophiles ♥️😄Today is my balloon 🎈 day🥳🎂. I am fairly ancient now😆. I am about to head out with the big man & Aged Parents for breakfast & there will be bacon 🥓, 🍳 eggs & frothy coffee 😄♥️🥳
Morning bookophiles 📚🎄💖. Despite now being on leave, my body clock hasn’t got the memo 😆. So I woke up early as usual 😱. I am curled up on my sofa 🛋️ with a frothy coffee ☕️ with just the Christmas tree 🎄 lights on & my audiobook, it’s a perfect start to my day😀🎄📚☕️
Evening bookophiles 📚😄♥️. Before Christmas, I mentioned that my partner (the big man) was very unwell & some scary words became part of our lives 😬😮💨🥲. We’ve had some news, he doesn’t have Cancer♥️. But he has, Sarcoidosis, chronic but not life threatening ♥️♥️♥️
Morning bookophiles 👍💖📚🪴. My little courtyard is reading ready, new cushions in place 💖, now all I need is some sunshine ☀️. As it’s chilly 🥶 here in Yorkshire.
I am at my desk, recycling box cardio complete, time for a 2nd frothy coffee ☕️💖 & a cardigan 🥶☕️⬇️⬇️⬇️
Evening bookophiles 📚♥️😄, I had a lovely time
@WaterstonesYork
this morning. Here’s my lovely stack of gorgeous new books, 2 signed, 2 special additions ♥️📚😄, plus a new bookmark & little desk calendar ♥️⬇️⬇️⬇️📚. I am thrilled with my bargains📚
@julesbuddle
@Liz_Wheeler
Absolutely, how incredibly sanctimonious & patronising is this statement. It’s only purpose is to draw attention. Having or not having a child is a choice & personal to the individuals involved…nobody else has the entitlement to judge!
Supermarket shopping 🛒 done & to my surprise😳 (horror) 😱the book aisle was busy🤣😱. I therefore had to do my impression of supermarket sweep & these bookies were swept into my trolley at pace🤣. I did manage some other goodies too, eggies, notebooks & a new frothy coffee mug
Doing a little happy dance tonight. Never did I think that this year I would be brave enough to be a book blogger, my dyslexia & my fear of being bad at writing held me back. Not any more❤️📚👍⬇️. Thank you to all my bookophiles for your endless support &
#SquadPod
I ❤️ you all
Now just to confuse you all, due to being on my Easter break. I went supermarket shopping 🛒 today, where I clearly left any self control at home, as you can see from my book, chocolate eggies & plant haul🤣🌿♥️📚🎉⬇️⬇️🐣🐣♥️📚🤣🪴..but could you resist 🤣⬇️🤣⬇️
Morning bookophiles📚💖. I am still not well enough to be at my desk😱.
Thank you for all the get well wishes 💖. I am snuggled up on my sofa 🛋️ under my heated throw, watching Harry Potter👍📚💖. Time for my next dose of ibuprofen 👍
Happy Christmas Bookophiles 🎄🎁🎉☕️🛋️📚 the Big Man 🏴 & I are Christmas Day ready 😆😆😆. Time for croissants 🥐 & frothy coffees, have a lovely day & we hope Santa has been kind to you & us🎄😆🎁💖
I am celebrating 🥳 my 100th blog post /Review today. Being dyslexic means writing for me is a bit of a battle, huge thanks to all the authors, blog tour organisers & publishers I am honoured to review for & to
#SquadPod
for being such a joy & support ♥️📚⬇️♥️📚👍😀⬇️
I know it’s not Friday 😂 but on Christmas Day, I was a bit sad that I didn’t get any books, book tokens or book marks or my book light (3rd year of asking) 😂. So I pulled myself together & liberated these from Waterstones clearance sale😂😂♥️📚 & the big man knows nothing 😂
Evening Bookophiles, unfortunately the Big Man🏴 had a relapse last night, so he remains in isolation in hospital & I go every day to spend an hour or two with him, in my very hot flush inducing outfit😷🧤🥵. I also treat myself to a frothy coffee ☕️ too😀💖⬇️⬇️
Evening Bookophiles 💖📚. I finished work at 4pm & then went to the hospital 🏥👍. Big Man had finally turned a corner 👍💖💖, tubes gone, oxygen no longer required👍. He’s still got a cough & he will be exhausted for some weeks to come.
I am having a lovely birthday day🎂📚😄♥️. Here is a little picture of some of my gifts, a huge thank you to
@Squadpod3
lovelies for the fabulous books, the other gifts came from friends & family🎁💝. The Big Man is taking me to buy some Lego tomorrow 😄😄♥️🎁⬇️♥️🎂
Happy Christmas Eve Bookophiles 📚🎄💖. The Big Man 🏴 & I suitably attired in our Christmas 🎄 jumpers, went out for dinner tonight 👍💖 & it was yummy 😋 & now we are back home in our PJs …perfect way to spend Christmas 🎄 Eve😀
Tilly is a truly exceptional book influencer & a damn lovely human & being fired for having an opinion is shameful & the very large book seller in question , should have behaved better, disappointing doesn’t begin to cover it😳😞.
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Hey
#BookTwitter
. I think you hopefully all know I generally try to keep this a positive space, but I can’t really put a positive spin on how I feel right now.
My heart is broken, and I’m so disappointed in a company who won’t forgive a single mistake like this.
I know it’s not Friday but for one week only, we have an Easter 🐣 Weekend book liberation picture 🐣♥️😄📚. Took the Big Man to supermarket, he was grumpy 😠🙄. So I bought books & bunnies ♥️😄📚🐰🍫♥️⬇️ they make me happy 😃🐰♥️⬇️📚🍫
It’s Friday😄, which signals my weekly pilgrimage to the supermarket & where I start my shopping in the book aisle 📚😄. Lots of lovely books to liberate today, along with mini eggs & malteaser bunnies 🐰 🍫. Plus some new pens (these write beautifully)📚♥️😄⬇️⬇️
Morning bookophiles 🎄📚😀. I was at M&S at 6.30am, Asda by 7.20am & Aldi by 8.30am, back home by 9.35am. I am now surrounded by food stuff😆. Now where to put it all😱😱😱
Evening bookophiles, welcome to the bank holiday weekend😄📚💖. On my rather epic shopping trip this morning, I decided some book liberation was necessary 😆📚💖. Here’s what I brought home, plus a coronation mug & yet more pens 🖊️😄📚💖⬇️
Afternoon bookophiles ♥️ here is my balloon 🎈 day haul. There aren’t any books 📚 yet😄my friends & family are wise & gave me book tokens & cash to encourage my book liberation habit ♥️📚😄🎂🔖. I did get some fabulous book marks🔖♥️ 🔖⬇️😄♥️📚🎂⬇️⬇️
Friday is supermarket day 😂📚❤️. I had my list, my mask 😷 & guess where I went first 😂📚😂📚...I admit that I simply have zero, nil, nada, absolutely no will power to resist new books😂📚❤️...see, this happened 😂📚⬇️⬇️⬇️❤️📚😂.
Well my lovely bookophiles♥️📚. After my hospital visit, I do not have a blood clot in my brain👍😀. I do have a nicked nerve, it’s unusual but it seems my jab did it🙄💉. So yes it has been extremely painful but I have some meds to sort that but I maybe stuck with it👍💊♥️
Afternoon bookophiles ❤️📚, I spent a pleasant time at the garden centre with my love❤️ & then we brave town to visit the works & all sense of control was lost & I engaged in a book & stationary frenzy, here is my little haul😂📚❤️⬇️🎄⬇️❤️📚😂
Well that was stressful, mother & friend (both with dementia) went missing this afternoon, having gone out with my dad. They forgot this, dad spent hours looking for them. Police involved (they were excellent) both M & F found & safe. Dad & I exhausted 😴🫤😱😱
Afternoon bookophiles, the big man & I went out for breakfast with my Aged Ps this morning & then stopped for coffee & cake as well. This is our last outing before he goes home on Wednesday 🥲♥️
Though I’d give you a little update about my other half, Jim has been in hospital 9 days😫. He has had lots of tests, scans, been scoped & today had keyhole surgery. We’ve had some very scary words coming our way, Liver cancer, Lymphoma to name a few. Just one more to face
Celebrating🥳 about this⬇️⬇️. As a dyslexic who has struggled to believe I could write ✍️ anything. I am blown away by the love & support of Book Twitter, thank you all for making me brave & special love to my
@Squadpod3
ladies for all you do & all you are ♥️📚😄🎉
Afternoon bookophiles, it’s Friday & now Jasper 🚗♥️ is fully recovered ♥️…Book liberation can recommence😆♥️📚Here’s my book haul & some new stationary items♥️😄 as well as a jubilee mug 😄👍♥️⬇️⬇️⬇️.
It’s Friday & I have been to the supermarket 👍🛒 which means a perusal of the book aisle & today my liberation tenancies were in overdrive, do you blame me, such gorgeous books 😆♥️📚⬇️ & I also picked up the lovely china Costa Christmas decoration♥️🎄a nod to my past life👍⬇️
Afternoon bookophiles😄, I have returned from my liberation adventures in the supermarket book aisle📚📚♥️ new books, pens, another new mug😆 oops 😬 & plenty of Easter chocolate 🍫 but sadly no big bags of mini eggs😉but luckily I have a stash😄😄♥️📚⬇️…
Evening Bookophiles, did a few chores this morning. Then went & met the Aged Ps for breakfast. I then picked up some treats for Big Man 🏴. Who is still very poorly😭. He is now on a ward but in full isolation, hence my very attractive accessories here👍😷⬇️🤒🧤⬇️
Afternoon bookophiles, just finished putting my supermarket shopping 🛒 away & I remember going down the book aisle, then it gets a bit hazy, as the book addition kicked in🤪😂📚❤️...seems I couldn’t resist these gorgeous reads😂📚❤️⬇️⬇️⬇️...oops🤪
I asked for an almond croissant 🥐 & he passed me the box. I was about to say to the Big Man, had he never heard of plates😳😟😄😄😄, then I noticed the label♥️♥️⬇️⬇️♥️
Afternoon Bookophiles 🥶📚💖. I had a lovely morning out with the Aged Ps & popped into a favourite charity shop & came out with this lovely haul of books💖📚 a couple of scarves 🧣 & this little highland coo 😆💖⬇️⬇️⬇️. Time for me to put my feet up 👍🛋️
Morning bookophiles ❤️📚. I am just about to start my birthday 🎂 in the best way, with a lovely frothy coffee ☕️. No work for me today, I think Bf & I will pop into town for a celebratory coffee ☕️ n cake 🍰....have a lovely day ❤️📚
Afternoon bookophiles♥️📚. It’s Friday, so I have been to the supermarket. Sadly the book aisle has been inundated with celebrity biographies, so slim pickings 🤣📚♥️. I managed a book for me & one for my other half, some posh pens 🖊 & new Christmas socks 🧦🎄📚⬇️😄
Today is supermarket shopping 🛒 day. With the big man back home, I was free to linger in the book aisle & these lovely books just fell from the shelves & into my trolley, along with the eggies, the tulips & yet more note books🤣📚♥️...I successful shop me thinks🤣👍📚♥️
I spent most of today in Whitby where I visited the most charming of independent bookshops
@thewhitbybooks1
, the two ladies manning the shop were a joy to chat with...I will be coming back❤️😍📚👍😂😀
Morning bookophiles 💖📚🐈⬛🐈. Domino & I are having a sofa day. Mainly because I seem to have contracted a lurgy of some sort & feel rotten and Domino is a cat so this is how he rolls😄😄😄
Soooooo, before my supermarket book haul, this fallen librarian📚😆, popped into one of her favourite charity shops & they had a super special book offer 3 for 2 & all books £0.50p, so this happened😂😂📚📚📚❤️⬇️⬇️❤️❤️⬇️
#StLeonardsHospice
Evening Bookophiles, decided to break into some of my Christmas chocolates 🍫😀💖😆😆😆⬇️⬇️⬇️. I have zero self control when it come to books, scarves & frothy coffees but no chocolate 😀😀😀🍫
I went to two supermarkets today👍. No book aisles 😱🥲 & the cost of living crisis is starting to bite in my little house hold of 1😳. So I liberated pre-loved books at
@SLHYork
my favourite charity shop, here’s my little haul & a new scarf 🧣📚😄♥️⬇️
This is my
#DaddyTwoSpoons
it is his 77th birthday 🎂 🎉🎁 today. This is why ⬇️ he got this nickname (dessert stealer🤣♥️) he introduced me to a love of reading & books & we still share & read them today♥️🎉😀📚
#HappyBirthday
🎉🎂🎁♥️🎉🎁⬇️
Afternoon Bookophiles 💖📚🎄☔️😀. Here is my epic book haul & some new bookmarks 🔖 too
I am very satisfied with my Christmas tokens/money stack
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There were a couple of titles that
@WaterstonesYork
didn’t have but I can get online👍📚soon😆
See anything you like?📚
Afternoon bookophiles ♥️📚, well it’s Friday & I have been to the Supermarket (& Costa♥️☕️) & my book liberation habit was out in full force🤣🤣🤣⬇️📚♥️, as you can see ⬇️📚♥️ below is the evidence of my complete lack of will power 🤣📚♥️⬇️…
#SorryNotSorry
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I decided to treat myself to some new bookmarks 🔖 as I adore them. You might say I collect them😄🔖♥️, friends, family & work colleagues used to bring me them back from their travels 🔖📚♥️⬇️😄 but Covid has stopped that for now📚😄♥️🔖⬇️
Morning bookophiles, well after 2 years & 5 months of avoiding Covid the big man & I tested positive this morning 😫🫤. I am currently coughing my head off, temp is high & my taste is decidedly off😫…& my head hurts…🫣🫤…
Morning bookophiles 🍂📚😄☕️. Now that the nights are drawing in, I have decided to expand my horizons a little. I have taken myself to a lovely local coffee
@Bluebird_bakery
#Acomb
I am enjoying a frothy coffee & a savoury focaccia 😋😋☕️💖…Welcome to Saturday 😄🍂📚☕️
Today was supermarket shopping 🛒 day & all my lovely bookophiles 📚❤️ know that means, my lack of will power in the book aisle will be on public display 😂😂❤️📚. Here is my little haul😂📚❤️⬇️⬇️⬇️❤️📚👍⬇️...I also went into a charity shop🤔🤔🤣👍...did I buy books😂📚
Hello Bookophiles 💖📚. Sorry for the silence, I have had a busy time this past week😒😱. The Big Man & I are finally getting on a more normal keel. He’s still recovering from his surgery & we have a district nurse visiting later today👍.
Afternoon my lovely bookophiles ♥️📚🎄. It’s Friday, I have been to the supermarket, here’s my haul, a posh advent calendar, a new fluffy blanket, a few bookies that I couldn’t resist. The pink book is actually a journal & the little reindeer plays annoying Christmas music 😄🎄
Today was supermarket shopping 🛒 day, it was a bit hectic😳. I did manage a blissful wonder down the book aisle, where these beauties just fell from the shelves into my trolley 🤣🤣🛒♥️📚, so did the roses 🌹 & a new mug 🤣🤣🤣♥️📚⬇️⬇️♥️📚
As all my bookophiles know on Friday I do my supermarket shop & I have zero willpower so I am always seduced by the book aisle, today was no different ❤️😂📚👍⬇️⬇️❤️📚👍
Evening bookophiles 💖📚. Thank you all so much for your kind & lovely words of support. I have spoken to the Big Man a couple of times. He is sore & tired but doing OK, he’s seen the surgeon who is happy with the Op 👍 Fingers Crossed I can bring the Big Man 🏴 home tomorrow !
Afternoon bookophiles 📚💖Sorry for being quiet the last couple of days, my attention was on the big man 🏴, who is now home complete with a catheter 👍😱💖. He is doing ok👍.