Se7en’s Fabulous Fun Post #284

We are chilling this weekend… completely…

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Beach walks and books; Naps and nearly no screen time… so good.

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Lovely Links from This Week

  1. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up for Kids… Kids can totally do this, love it.
  2. Food Foraging at GoodHope Nursery, these guys are just over the mountain from us and I have been following such a beautiful instagram feed. The fact is… I am intrigued, and would love to know more!!!
  3. Michael Hyatt and Four Letter Words Banned by Leaders.
  4. The most lovely colourful blog on the web, Whatever, has a #FollowFriday full of beautiful and inspiring instagrammers.
  5. TinkerLab’s Bark Painting… seriously beautiful, I love it.
  6. There is so much fun on in London right now… thought you might like to take a peek with the Urban Explorer.
  7. You may want to know that GreenPop, the folk that I just went to Zambia with, will be planting trees a little closer to home in Hogsback, later on this year.
  8. And the se7en + 1th link:

    A Blast From the Past:

  9. The first week of August is World Breastfeeding Week, and that is a topic I can talk on and on about. In our house, where nursing went on without a pause for thought for sixteen years… sixteen… here are all our nursing posts in one place:
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    Nursing:

Book of the Week

The Glass Sentence by S.E. Grove and published by Penguin Random House South Africa: This book is the first in a trilogy and as Hood #1 looked at the cover he declared it “a keeper,” which is high praise for a book around here as some shuffling will have to occur for there to be a little more space on the bookshelf for it. It is one of those beautiful books that you need to read in real life rather than on the kindle, because it feels so good. The pages are somewhat rough on the edge and the paper has an unusual texture… the book feels out of time and old before it’s time… wonderful. This is a book filled with time traveling and history, mystery and adventure. In the world of mapmaking where continents have been shattered into different times by the Great Disruption… the world appears to be somewhat familiar to us, but not quite. The shattering of time leaves one restless. It is a great theme for a book as it allows all sorts of things to enter into the plot that wouldn’t be in a book with a more “regular” timeline. Our heroine, Sophie, like so many children in books, has lost her parents, and her uncle has raised her. He is kidnapped and she is on a long and challenging quest to find him. This is a great read for anyone who is not daunted by fat books, at close to five hundred pages, this is one of those books that will be enjoyed by anyone who is able to read and turn pages, because the reader will be turning a lot of pages and fast. This is compelling reading, to say the least. The book has it’s own website and you can take a look at it here.

The Glass Sentence was given to us for review purposes by Penguin books South Africa, we were not paid for this review and the opinions expressed are our own.

That’s us… Hope your weekend has been a fabulous one and we are so looking forward to another week of blogging with you all…

2 Replies to “Se7en’s Fabulous Fun Post #284”

  1. That photo of Hood 6/7 is so darn cute!!!

    I’m doing the life-changing magic over here and just the amount of space it has saved me in the cupboards has been life-changing 🙂

  2. Thank You Marcia, Oh my word… you forget how small they were!!! I really enjoyed her book it made a lot of sense to me, and found it very enabling in the “just letting stuff go” department… I am once again in full toss mode!!! It is life-changing, in a good way. I hope you had the best weekend ever and lots of lovely birthday-ness went on!!!

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