Category Archives: Books & Reading

Brown Paper Sealing Wax And Vintage All The Way

Posted on December 13, 2017 by Sherri Matthews

Every Christmas, my present from Granny arrived by post in plenty of time for the big day, its yearly arrival creating one of my fondest childhood memories. But it wasn’t so much what was inside the parcel that made me … Continue reading →

Posted in Books & Reading, Childhood Memories | Tagged Bird Twitcher, Button Tin, Childhood memories, Children's Books, D G Kaye, Flash Fiction Anthology, Game of Thrones, Love of Reading, May/December Memoir, Nostalgia, Observer's Book of Birds, Peter Pan, Vintage Games | 60 Comments

Christmas Present

Posted on December 16, 2016 by Sherri Matthews

It doesn’t seem possible that Christmas is just over a week away, a New Year chasing its heels. So much has changed, not least of all the weather. The last couple of weeks in southern England have been unseasonably mild, … Continue reading →

Posted in Books & Reading, Christmas, Weekly Photo Challenge | Tagged A Christmas Carol, Anticipation, Books & Reading, California, City of Bath, Debut Authors, Dunster By Candlelight, Friendship, Garden Challenge, Monday Walks, Victorian Christmas, Weekly Photo Challenge | 131 Comments

A Trio of Cubs, A Telephone Box And The Love Of Reading

Posted on November 25, 2015 by Sherri Matthews

For bloggers with cameras, photo opportunities turn up in surprising places, with thoughts of friends never far away. On Sunday, I took a bracing walk around the grounds of the majestic country home of Forde Abbey in Dorset. Dating back … Continue reading →

Posted in Bench Photos, Blog Hops, Books & Reading, Weekly Photo Challenge | Tagged Ann Rule, Bench Series, Books & Reading, Forde Abbey, postaday, Puma Cubs, Reading Habits, Telephone Box, travel, Weekly Photo Challenge, Zoo | 76 Comments

Foxy Lady: 99 Word Flash Fiction

Posted on May 26, 2015 by Sherri Matthews

At long last, time for some Flash Fiction! Charli’s Flash Fiction prompt this week asks us to write about ‘an old mystery in the current time.’ Now, I love a good mystery. Enid Blyton has a great deal to do … Continue reading →

Posted in Books & Reading, Flash Fiction | Tagged 99 Word Flash Fiction, Books & Reading, Enid Blyton, Flash fiction, Murder Mystery, Mystery, Red Fox, Woods | 109 Comments

Cornwall, ‘Rebecca’ and a Homecoming

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Sherri Matthews

Well, Thanksgiving has been and gone (I hope you all had a good one!), my son Nicky celebrated his birthday in style and we spent a wonderful weekend with some very special people at their lovely home in Cornwall. To my … Continue reading →

Posted in Books & Reading, Current Affairs, Family Life, Musings, My California, Photos, Travel | Tagged Author, Books and Reading, British Isles, Cornwall, Current Affairs, Daphne Du Maurier, Family Life, Fowey, Italian Job, Looe, Marriage, Movies, Musings, My California, travel, West Country, Withnail & I, writing | 80 Comments

James Hadley Chase and American Pancakes

Posted on September 24, 2013 by Sherri Matthews

The first time I ever read a book by James Hadley Chase, the brilliant author of American noir genre crime novels spanning from 1939’s ‘No Orchids for Miss Blandish‘ to 1984’s ‘Hit Them Where it Hurts‘, I was all of … Continue reading →