Celia Jenkins

A belated Happy New Year and all the best for 2018! 2017 was a pretty good year, all things considered. I spent most of the year out of...

Every year my new years resolution is to try and read more books than the year before. I've managed this every year since 2012, and hope...

The Times/Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition is a prestigious annual contest offering the winner a worldwide publishing...

As a TEFL teacher, I'm always on the look out for new teaching websites and blogs that I can get tips and ideas from. This month I got...

This year I got married. Yay! I know this blog has been long awaited by friends who want to know more about my special day, and all the...

If you know me as Knitty Bee, you'll know I'm nuts about knitting. So nuts about it I even published my own e-book of knitting patterns...

There are a lot of authors I've been keeping my eye on recently, and one of them is Sarah Driver. With the first two books in her series...

Bookshops are my heaven. True, over the last five years or so, most of my reading had been done on the Kindle, but this is only because...

I've been reading a lot of fiction for children and teenagers this year, and have been delving into old favourites as well as trying out...

Earlier this year I had the chance to speak with Ellie about her experiences on the YWAM Ships. I think the work she does it so fantastic...

More than halfway through the year, this is usually the point where I look at my reading list and realise I'm way off target (I challenge...

For this month's first BaBs article, I'd like to showcase something I love which you may not have heard of. I first heard of this many...

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth “There are two types of successful people in life.” It was our first week...

I'm not much of an artist, though I've always dabbled in sketching, painting... that kind of thing. Textile arts have always been much...

I have so much YA (young adult) fiction on my reading list this year - lots that I have put on hold because I've been living abroad and...

I came across PINKFONG recently while searching for something else to use alongside my favourite Super Simple Learning materials....

With recycling being such a hot topic these past few years, it is no surprise that we're seeing countless projects and initiatives set up...

A few haiku from today - lovely sunny afternoon despite the forecast predicting rain. 102. branch of a tree in the corner of my window,...

So I haven't quite written haiku every day for NaPoWriMo, but the other goal I had in my head as to write at least one-hundred haiku this...