Hi everyone! I hope you're all well. Today is Wednesday, and it's time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you'd like to participate in the challenge, you can find the list of topics for 2026 here. If you are interested in reading other people's responses to this week's topic, you can do so here. Favourite Festival/Fair/Holiday I don’t really do festivals or fairs. So I’m going to tell you about my favourite seasons instead. For me, the ‘ber months are where it’s at.

Hi everyone! I hope you're all well. Today is Wednesday, and it's time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you'd like to participate, you can find the topics for 2026 here. If you're interested in reading other people's responses to this week's topic, you can do so here. Something I Always Thought Was True (But Wasn't) I always believed that slaves built the pyramids in Egypt, mainly because that’s what I was taught in school. However, it turns out that skilled labourers and conscripted Egyptian peasants built them.

Hi everyone! I hope you're all well. Today is Wednesday, and it's time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you'd like to join the challenge, you can find the list of topics for 2026 here. If you're interested in reading other people's responses to this week's topic, you can do so here. Favourite Memory From My Childhood One of my favourite childhood memories is waking up on Christmas morning when I was about six or seven. I can remember finding it very difficult to sleep because I was excited for what…

Hi everyone! I hope you're all well. Today is Wednesday, and it's time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you'd like to participate, you can find the topics for 2026 here. If you're interested in other people's responses to this week's topic, you can do so here. Reread Books or Rewatch Movies? Why or Why Not? There are only a couple of books I love enough to reread. I reread A Christmas Carol as a matter of tradition.

Hi everyone! I hope you're all well. Today is Wednesday, and it's time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you'd like to participate in the challenge, you can find the list of topics for 2026 here, and if you'd like to read others' responses to this week's topic, you can do so here. Prologues/Epilogues - Love or Hate Them? Why? This is tricky, because whenever I open a book and see the word ‘prologue’, my initial instinct is to skip it.

Hi everyone! I hope you're all well. Today is Wednesday, and it's time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you'd like to participate, you can find the topics for 2026 here. If you'd like to read other people's responses to this week's topic, you can find them here. A Profession from a Book/Movie/TV Show I'd Like to Try There are so many. Being a journalist in Gotham City seems very lucrative. There’s always a story. There always seem to be crime bosses and psychopaths escaping from Arkham Asylum—you’d never be short on material to write about.

Hi everyone! I hope you're all well. Today is Wednesday, and it's time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you'd like to participate in the challenge, you can find the topics for 2026 here. If you'd like to read others' responses to this week's topic, you can find them here. Something I Can't Live Without and Why Phone/LaptopBarring any humans from the equation… I regret to say that I couldn’t live without my phone or my laptop.

Hi everyone! I hope you're all well. Today is Wednesday, meaning it's time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you'd like to participate in the challenge, you can find the topics for 2026 here. If you'd like to read other people's responses to this week's topic, you can find them here. One of my Pet Peeves So, I know I’m supposed to talk about “one” of my pet peeves; however, as you’re about to discover, that was incredibly difficult.

Hi everyone! I hope you're all well. Today is Wednesday, and it’s time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you'd like to participate in the challenge yourself, you can find the list of topics for 2026 here. If you're interested in reading other people's responses to this week's topic, then you can find them here. Book/Movie/TV Characters I'd Invite to Dinner I’d love to invite Ebeneezer Scrooge to dinner.Scrooge (after his transformation from a miserable miser to a healed man) would be an interesting character to have dinner with.

Hi everyone! I hope you're all well. Today is Wednesday, and it's time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you'd like to participate in the challenge yourself, you can find the list of topics for 2026 here. If you're interested in reading other people's responses to this week's topic, then you can find them here. Books Set Near Where I Live There are lots of books set in the north east of England. Being on a beautiful section of the British coast helps to provide atmosphere, and there’s plenty of history to write about too.

Hi everyone! I hope you're all well. Today is Wednesday, and it's time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you'd like to participate in the challenge, you can find the list of topics for 2026 here. If you're interested in reading other people's responses to this week's topic, you can do so here. One Sci-fi Item or Ability I Wish Really Existed I couldn't just think of one. When I thought about it for even a moment, my head swam with things from sci-fi I wished were real.

Hi everyone! I hope you're all well. Today is Wednesday, and it's time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you'd like to participate in the challenge, you can find the list of topics for 2026 here. If you're interested in reading other people's responses to this week's topic, you can do so here. A Weird Fact I Learned from Reading Fiction My grasp of this week's topic was weak, to say the least. I guess I didn’t really understand it, or else it was too broad.

Hi everyone! I hope you're all well. Today is Wednesday, and it's time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you'd like to participate in the challenge, you can find the list of topics for 2026 here. If you're interested in reading other people's responses to this week's topic, you can do so here. Foods from My Geographic Area that I don't Like Black PuddingThis is called blood sausage in other parts of the world (gee, I wonder why they changed the name…).

A peak into some of the wondrous World of Warcraft faction rewards to be earned beyond The Dark Portal in Outland

It has been a very gray, rainy weekend here in the Hollow. A misty haze has settled all around the cottage, and all the greens and browns have erupted in a vibrant burst of almost otherworldly shades ...

Hi everyone! I hope you're all well. Today is Wednesday, and it's time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you would like to participate in the challenge, you can find the list of topics for 2026 here. If you'd like to read other people's responses to this week's topic, you can do so here. Foods from my Geographic Area that I Love I can only think of a few Geordie foods off the top of my head (Geordies are people from…

Hi everyone! I hope you're all well. Today is Wednesday, and it's time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you would like to participate in the challenge, you can find the list of topics for 2026 here. If you would like to read other people's responses to this week's topic, you can do that here. Reasons I've Stopped Reading or Watching a Series The Magicians Book series by Lev GrossmanI loved the first book. I loved the characters, the world-building, and the way the story pulled me in, but the second book didn’t have the same effect.

Hi everyone! I hope you're all well. Today is Wednesday, and it's time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you would like to participate in the challenge, you can find the list of topics for 2026 here, and if you would like to read other people's responses to this week's topic, you can do that here. My Life in Photos or GIFs I don’t really take many photos, but I’ll share a few from my phone's camera roll that I like, along with some of the GIFs and memes I use regularly.

Hi everyone! I hope you're all well. Today is Wednesday, and it’s time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you want to participate in the challenge, you can find the list of topics for 2026 here, and if you would like to see what others had to say about this week's topic, you can do that here. Books I Wish I'd Discovered Sooner There are so many books I wish I had discovered earlier in life. Here are just a few:

Hi everyone! I hope you're all well. Somehow, today is Wednesday again, and it's time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you would like to participate in the challenge, you can find the list of topics for 2026 here. If you would like to read other people's thoughts on today's topic, you can do so here. Would You Go Skydiving? Why or why not? Hmm…. Would I throw myself out of a tin can moving at a hundred miles per hour at 14,000 feet and aim myself toward the ground… uh, no thank you!

Hi everyone! It's Wednesday, and it’s time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you would like to participate in the challenge, you can find the list of topics for 2026 here. If you're interested in reading other people's responses to this week's topic, you can do so here. Stores or Other Physical Places I Wish Still Existed Book shops. Book shops, Book shops.There used to be loads of bookshops between my town and the next two towns over….

Hi everyone! I hope you're all well. Today is Wednesday, and it's time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you would like to participate in the challenge yourself, you can find the list of topics for 2026 here. If you'd like to read other people's responses to this week's topic, you can do so here. Websites I Wish Still Existed Open DiaryOpen Diary was a great social networking space originally launched in 1998. It closed down in 2014 before being relaunched 4 years later.

Hi everyone! I hope you're all well. It's Wednesday again, and it's time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you would like to participate in the challenge yourself, you can find the list of topics for 2026 here. If you are interested in what other people had to say on today's topic, you can read their responses here. Have You Ever Attended Your High School Reunion? Why? My high school has never held a reunion, which is good because if it did, I certainly wouldn't go.

Hi everyone! I hope you’re all well. Today is Wednesday, and it's time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you would like to participate in the challenge, you can find the topics for 2026 here, and if you would like to see what others have said about this week’s topic, you can do so here. Something To Know Before Visiting My Country/City This is a hard one to answer. England is a lovely place to look at, and most of us pride ourselves on being a multicultural, welcoming nation—but there are a growing number who feel the opposite.