The Lost Words by Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris #FridayReads

I bought this large sumptuous book at Christmas as a present for my husband but really it was for me.  Written as a response to the removal of words such as acorn and willow from a children’s dictionary, it laments the loss of these words to our children’s vocabulary and is a book of spells

Castles, Customs and Kings edited by Debra Brown #FridayBookShare~ @ShelleyWilson72

#FridayBookShare is a game created by Shelley Wilson to help search for an ideal read. Anyone can have a go – all you need to do is answer the following questions based on the book you are currently reading/finished reading this week and use the hashtag #FridayBookShare First line of the book. Recruit fans by

#AtoZChallenge Letter Y

   is for Yeats In the following poem written in 1888 William Butler Yeats remembered the deserted island of Innisfree in the middle of Lough Gill in County Sligo which he used to visit as a child. Lake Isle of Innisfree I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there,

#AtoZChallenge Letter X

For this letter I have to cheat by using EX One person you can count on to be depressing is Thomas Hardy.  Here is one of his later poems. EXPECTATION and EXPERIENCE “I had a holiday once,” said the woman- Her name I did not know- “And I thought that where I’d like to go,