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Nature on The Landing: Bird Feeders
As the weather is still tending to be generally less than springlike, I thought that I would revisit my attempts at making fat cakes for our garden bird... Read more
Posted on 25 February 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE -
New Year TBR Pile: Status Update
This is the post where I talk about all those lovely books that I received for Christmas and that now adorn my never diminishing TBR Pile. I know that it is... Read more
Posted on 31 January 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Garden Diary Re-visited
As we are almost at the end of May, I have decided that it is time for another Garden Diary post, having not ventured from The Landing region to the sunny... Read more
Posted on 29 May 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE -
One Pair of Hands by Monica Dickens
Today’s post sees me slipping back into library mode with One Pair of Hands, a book that I reserved after having heard about it from a borrower. Read more
Posted on 25 April 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Childhood Favourite: The Sea Witch Comes Home by Malcolm Saville
This novel by Malcolm Saville (1901-1982) represents another dive into my literary past, as Saville’s Lone Pine adventure stories were once great favourites of... Read more
Posted on 26 March 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Georgian Dublin Walking Tour
Following on from the Birmingham related topic of the last post, here is a Dublin flavoured piece to continue the city theme. This is one of those ‘out and... Read more
Posted on 12 February 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Birmingham Art Book
In this post, I’m featuring a new resident on the Landing Book Shelves, a Christmas gift no less. The book is the Birmingham Art Book: The City Through the... Read more
Posted on 30 January 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Books on the Bus
Crime on the commuteI noted in the last blog post that I was listening to The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz (read by Roy Kinnear) on my commute. Read more
Posted on 28 February 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The New Year Resolution That Wasn’t
The germ of this first blog post of 2022 is a resolution that I probably ought to make this year, should have made in previous years and in all likelihood will... Read more
Posted on 30 January 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Pondering on Those Interminable Book Lists
Book of BooksYet again, I have to account for a long blogging gap on the Landing Book Shelves, as it has been a few months since my last optimistic post. Yet... Read more
Posted on 03 October 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE -
A Brief Notice: The Landing Book Shelves is on the Move!
You may think that things are never-changing here on The Landing, but that is not in fact the case. There is always a certain degree of book shuffling going on... Read more
Posted on 30 March 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Ireland Reads Day: Squeezing in a Read (or Two)
Today’s Landing Tales post is written in support of the #Ireland Reads day, so I want to talk a little about my memories of my early reading life (once upon a... Read more
Posted on 25 February 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Armchair Travelling: The Silent Traveller in Edinburgh by Chiang Yee
This book was a Christmas present from The Bookworm, so it hasn’t been on the Landing Book Shelves for long. In fact, it is more of a bedside table guest, befor... Read more
Posted on 31 January 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Recipes: from an Old Farmhouse by Alison Uttley
An evocative imageI wanted to follow up on the last Landing post on foraging-related books with another foody feature. This book is part memoir of a Derbyshire... Read more
Posted on 31 July 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Two ‘Wild Food’ Books: Food for Free and Wild and Free
Before we go any further I would just like to say that it’s a moot point whether these books a) really count as Landing Tales reads as they don’t live in that... Read more
Posted on 12 June 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
School Adventure: Dimsie Among the Prefects
DimsieFor this post, I have lighted on a book that pre-dates the Landing Bookshelves by many years as it is one that my mother had as a child. Read more
Posted on 20 May 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Frankly Feminine: A Little Worldly Advice from the 60s
Frankly Feminine, 1965Frankly Feminine: A book of comprehensive information and advice for the woman of today was edited by Eileen McCarthy, published by The... Read more
Posted on 21 January 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Benefactress by Elizabeth Von Arnim
I have been searching around on The Landing to find ideas for a new series of blog posts. Obviously, at this stage my projected spring Renaissance has turned... Read more
Posted on 03 December 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE -
A Landing New Beginning…
A few more to read…As I am sure I don’t need to point out, it’s been a while since I visited the Landing Bookshelves, so things are a little dusty around here a... Read more
Posted on 24 March 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE -
This is Not Your Final Form: Emma Press
For this post I am having a change of direction and featuring a poetry book as I have not done so for a quite a while (sadly remiss of me). Read more
Posted on 22 March 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE