Tag Archives: Granny

Loft treasure no.8 – ABC, 123, and some vintage rhymes

May 2, 2013 · by · in Family reading fun, Reviews of vintage books (loft treasures!), Story Seekers · 4 Comments

I haven’t posted about my loft treasures for ages and what better time to reintroduce them than for my one hundredth post?!  When I first started this blog nearly a year ago I didn’t think I’d get past one post, let alone up to a hundred, and it took me quite a few months to […]

Someone else’s loft treasure!

January 25, 2013 · by · in Family reading fun, Reviews, Reviews of vintage books (loft treasures!) · Leave a comment

After a recent meeting at the Oxfam bookshop about my storytelling sessions, I allowed myself a quick browse of their children’s bookshelves.  Fifteen minutes later, I was staggering home under the weight of several gorgeous discoveries, one of which was a book that made me literally squeeeeeeeeal with glee. ‘My Book of Country Life’, published […]

Trawling the loft for memories

September 5, 2012 · by · in Family reading fun, Reviews, Reviews of vintage books (loft treasures!) · 1 Comment

Last weekend, I took C and H down to my dad’s house so that we were out of the way while M and his dad decorated our lounge and dining room (which looks lovely, by the way – they worked VERY hard!). Anyway, prior to this visit I had stumbled across a conversation that @aitcheldee […]