Here at The Willoughby Book Club, we’re supporting the amazing work being done by The Reader Organisation at the Mansion House in Calderstones Park, Liverpool.

Having been given preferred bidding status earlier this year, the charities’ vision is to turn the Grade II listed house into The International Centre for Reading and Wellbeing.

This includes the introduction of a new Saturday Morning Reading Club for kids, the aim of which is to create an enjoyable and inspiring environment in which kids of all ages can experience books and reading.

So How is The Willoughby Book Club helping?

Today we donated a little under 100 books to The Reader Organisation, for use in their new weekly kids reading groups (which start from this Saturday). Some of our books will also be added to the newly created Young People’s Library, once it’s up and running.

We’re absolutely over the moon to be involved in such a brilliant cause, and we can’t wait to visit the site to see our books in action in June (we’ll keep you posted!).

You can find out more about the Reader Organisation and information on how you can support their tireless work, by visiting http://thereader.org.uk

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Our very lovely visit to The Lake District only lasted 5 days, but we savoured every minute of it!

The weather was perfect (if a little blustery on some of our more adventurous walks), the views were breath-taking and our little log cabin was the cosiest place on Earth.

During our short stay we managed to visit Ambleside, Windermere, Grasmere, Keswick and Kendal. We even found time to fit in some bookish sights along the way - including Beatrix Potters house, Wordsworth’s cottage and the amazing Keswick Bookshop…books are never far from the action!

It was our first time in The Lakes, but we’re already eagerly planning our return visit. Well done Cumbria!

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We finally got round to ordering our wedding photos (it’s only taken us 7months!!)

Now we’ve got them I don’t need an excuse to show them to you, or to any unsuspecting people passing on the street, delivering a parcel, the milkman etc.

We had a DIY wedding in a pretty little village hall. We made anything we could ourselves from bunting to invitations to the cake. Our guests got to ride on a lovely old coach and we rode in a beautiful Triumph Herald.

The wedding breakfast was afternoon tea and in the evening we had fish and chips from a van outside (luckly it didn’t rain). www.gogreengages.com

We didn’t have a theme as such but we used penguin book covers as our invitations, table plan and things like that.

These are just a few of our snaps of our day, hope you enjoy xx

I bought myself a little treat…

This book is beautiful. It’s full of lovely ideas with easy to follow instructions - perfect for any crafty wannabe.

If crafting’s not your thing just look at all the pretty fabric prints and you’ll feel happy as a clam x

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Very soggy walk to try and burn some chrimbo calories…

I think we’re going to need quite few… darn you chocolate orange! Why can’t you be one of my five a day!

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Well, Christmas is nearly over for another year… sniff, sniff…

So to cheer myself up I’ve been looking at some old library/ book adverts. They’ve really done the trick so I thought I would share some of them with you.

I’ve made two observations…

1. they’re lovely

2. they used a lot of yellow ink

Enjoy!

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For those of you that haven’t seen it already…we made The Guardian’s Top 10 Christmas Gift Subscriptions! (in the #1 spot no less!) www.thewilloughbybookclub.co.uk

For those of you that haven’t seen it already…we made The Guardian’s Top 10 Christmas Gift Subscriptions! (in the #1 spot no less!)

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December 1st means one only one thing at our house… Time to put up the Christmas decorations!! I know it’s bit early but who cares, It’s Christmas (ish)!

The most important thing when putting up our decs is the festive sound track. Here are the songs that helped make it happen…

1. Christmas wrapping - The Waitresses

2. Russian Dance - Tchaikovsky (cue pretend christmas rushing around)

3. Let it snow - Dean Martin

4. Rocking around the christmas tree- Brenda Lee

5. Have yourself a merry little christmas - Judy Garland

6. All of Elvis’ Christmas album

7. In dulce jubilo - Mike Oldfield (Adam’s fave)

8. A Christmas gift for you from Phil Specter (minus the track when Phil wishes us a merry christmas  - sorry Phil it’s a bit much)

I promise the next post will be less Christmas based…. maybe…

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