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But when they got there, the tree was bare. Not a single ribbon was dangling from the branches above their heads. Athena’s eyes began to...

Chapter 2 It only took five minutes to get to the park. With the sun on her shoulders, Athena hummed to herself as she started to fill...

Part 1 Chapter 1 This book is about a boggart and a bear called Jonny Razor. The bear belonged to Athena Pepperdine. It wasn’t a...

Fri 16th Jan 2015: Hip Op Day +7: Better night’s sleep. Didn’t wake until 5.15 after disturbing dreams of driving through floods in a...

Tues 13th Jan 2015: Hip Op Day +4: Wake up at 5.30 for medication and wee and examination of thigh which is now like a monster slab of...

Sun 11th Jan 2015: Hip Op Day +2: At 5.30 am I get coffee, biscuits, drugs and an ice pack. I settle down to read H is for Hawk....

Sun 4th Jan 2015: Hip Op Day -5: Wake to monster stomach gripe. Downstairs Alice and Matt have nearly finished washing up and clearing...

Thurs 1st Jan 2015: Hip Op Day -8: New Year Jane is up early and off to Louth for her Slimming World group. After breakfast, I start to...

Way Out West was on the television when the phone rang. It had just got to one of my favourite bits. Sighing heavily, I left Stan Laurel...

It wasn’t just the nature of Graham’s death which stunned us all; it was the fact that he had disappeared for good, without warning, that...

‘Are Nana and Grandad going to die?’ ‘Ooh, not for a long time. You don’t have to start worrying about that...Eh, look, your mum’s ready...

‘And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad’ Maud: Tennyson The fence which bordered Chris’ drive was laced with honeysuckle. After a...