Our final stop on the 2006 Blog Tour is...

.....over at Ag's blog. She is going to be putting up some video of her choir's performances over Christmas. Sounds like a great way to finish off!

I really wanted to thank everyone for their participation. I had a great time visiting everyone's blogs and reading about different traditions, recipes, jokes and the odd picture or two as well!

Blog Tour day 15

Today we have not one, but two places to visit! Seems fitting as it is very nearly Christmas Day. Enjoy your visit to Carl V's blog and a Christmas joke from Dance Chica.

Blog Tour day 14

Go check out Melrose Plant's blogto see what Christmas treats are up for today!

As for me, I am off to do battle at the shops for the last time. Should probably do some grocery shopping as well. Last year on Christmas Eve I got half price prawns and just sat down and gobbled them down for dinner...just prawns and seafood sauce! Yum! Mabye I will get lucky again!

Blog Tour day 13

Today we go back to Kailana's blog, this time for a post by Chris (who seems to now be known as 'The Button Guy'. Guess there are worse things he could be called!!

Blog Tour - day....well 12 I think!

Seems I can't count! So whilst yesterdays post said it was for day 10, turns out it was actually day 11, therefore today is day 12. Confused...apparently so am I.

Anyhow, today we are off to Susan Higginbotham's blog where she has a fun post up about what might have been said to Richard III at Christmas time in 1483!

2006 Blog Tour - Day 10

Wow, Christmas is coming up so quickly! Who's ready? I'm nearly there, although there are a couple of things that I am going to cross off my list as never going to get done so might as well not worry about that!!

Today on the blog tour we are off to see what treats Bookwormomhas in store for us!

Blog Tour

So this is the list for the Blog Tour as it stands at the moment! It's still not too late to join in the fun. If anyone else is interested in joining in then we will double up on the days. Just leave a comment and we will add you to the list! I'm really looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with!


19 December - Elysabeth
20 December - Bookwormom
21 December - Susan Higginbotham
22 December - Chris, the button guy, posting on Kailana's blog
23 December - Melrose Plant
24 December - Carl V, Dance Chica
28 December - Ag


Don't forget to drop by and visit Elysabeth and see what treat she has for us today.

Blog tour - days 8 and 9

Okay, so I disappeared offline for a couple of days. Wish there was a good reason but there really isn't! I am surviving on 2 hours sleep today, and yet I am somewhat surprisingly quite energetic given that it is nearly 11pm! Even managed to get some housework done tonight! Now that is unusual!

Anyway.....our blog tour visited Mailyn on Day 8 and on day 9 we are off to visit The Observer! Hope you are enjoying the blog tour...we certainly are!

2006 Blog Tour - Day 7

Today our tour takes us to Carla's blog, where she has a recipe for what she calls Stockbrokers Pudding. At first I thought that meant that there would be more money in it than the traditional pennies...but apparently not! Be sure to check it out!

2006 Blog Tour - Day 6

So today's stop is at Cindy's blog. The post is already up, and it is another good one!

2006 Blog Tour - Day 5

Today we are off to Rosario's blog, where she has a post up about Christmas in Uruguay!

2006 Blog Tour - Day 4

Ladies and Gentlemen...today our blog tour takes in the blog of Booklogged. Be sure to drop by and see what special treats she has in store for us!

2006 Blog Tour - Day 3

Today's stop on our blog tour is over atJennie's blog. Be sure to stop by and see what she has to offer us.

2006 Blog Tour - Day 2

I'll be back a bit later to post a little bit about what it is like to have Christmas in the middle of summer.

In the meantime, here's a link that shows some images of Australia set to a humourous Australian Christmas song that attempts to show a little what it is like!

2006 Blog Tour - Day 1

Our first stop on the blog tour is over at Kailana's blog. Be sure to drop by there and see what treats she has in store for us all.

Only one day to go....

So this is the list for the Blog Tour as it stands at the moment! It's still not too late to join in the fun. If anyone else is interested in joining in then we will double up on the days. Just leave a comment and we will add you to the list! I'm really looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with!



10 December - Kailana
11 December - Marg
12 December - Jennie
13 December - Booklogged
14 December - Rosario
15 December - Cindy
16 December - Carla
17 December - Mailyn
18 December - The Observer
19 December - Elysabeth
20 December - Bookwormom
21 December - Susan Higginbotham
22 December - Chris, the button guy, posting on Kailana's blog
23 December - Melrose Plant
24 December - Carl V, Dance Chica
28 December - Ag

Joint review and coming soon to a blog near you...

Kailana and I are reading the In Death series of books together...well kind of together! My review of Vengeance in Death is buried in the archives, but Kailana has taken my review and added her thoughts to them here.

There will be another joint review coming up for The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls in the next couple of days so keep an eye out for that as well!

Also coming up in the next day or so are some more details on the 2006 Christmaas Blog Tour....just too tired to do it tonight!

Sometime in the near future I have reviews for about 10 other books as well. I am so far behind on my reviews it isn't funny! Fortunately Blogger seems to have finally fixed itself so that should at least help!

Blog tour - Christmas 2006 Advent Calendar

Kailana and I thought it would be fun if we had our own virtual advent calendar. Why should the kids get all the fun of opening a box on the advent calendar and finding a little treat in there!!

So Kailana and I are going to cohost a blog tour! Each day anyone who wants to participate could take turns sharing a little treat with our friends here in blogland. For example it could be something about a holiday tradition (and it could be whatever holiday you celebrate if you don't do Christmas), or a recipe, or a picture of a hot guy, or a favourite Christmas memory, movie, song...anything you like.

We will create a list of links so that as people express interest we will add them to the list, and then we will post a link directing visitors to the appropriate blog. To give people a chance to get organised, we will start on Sunday 10 December. If there are more people than there are days that's fine too.....the more the merrier!

So do you want to see a little treat each day?


10 December - Kailana
11 December - Marg
12 December - Jennie
13 December - Booklogged
14 December - Rosario
15 December - Cindy
16 December - Carla
17 December - Mailyn
18 December - The Observer
19 December - Elysabeth
20 December - Bookwormom
21 December - Susan Higginbotham
22 December - Chris, the button guy, posting on Kailana's blog
23 December - Melrose Plant
24 December - Carl V



And a very special note of thanks goes to Kailana's friend Chris, who made the gorgeous button for us!