What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday - Week 525

Good Morning Everyone,

Whizzday again and it's another special WOYWW day too. One of our Deskers is having an especially important birthday today ... it ends in zero ... so Happy Birthday, Helen! Have an especially wonderful WOYWW!!!

Now, on to what's on my desk today.

Piles - and they are multiplying! There's the usual right back looking much as it ever does but the front!!! I've been busy making cards for birthdays - I have a lot of those in June - and Rudolph Day so stuff has simply accumulated as I pulled out bits and pieces to use. And, of course, it's all too much. The little tray to the left contains some tools of the trade - Versamark, stamps, embossing powder, etc.

From last week - the caddy finally finished. So pleased with it - very useful for carrying stuff to crops, etc.

Made this quick and easy book bag for my little great-grandson who turned four this week.

Look at the happy mail the postman has brought me.

Just in time for this post. Can't wait to try these out but it will have to wait. We're off on our travels again this weekend. To North Yorkshire this time - there's a steam railway the EM just has to take a trip on.

The book bit and I'm sharing two light holiday reads this week.

'The Bookshop On The Shore' by Jenny Colgan. What could be more romantic than to escape to the Scottish Highlands, where a tiny mobile bookshop parks on the edge of Loch Ness. Zoe is a single London based mother of Hari, her adorable four-year old son - perfect in every way except he doesn't speak. London is too expensive and Zoe despairing when her landlord raises her rent, takes the opportunity to take on two part-time jobs, one as the bookseller and the other as a nanny to three unruly children. It's a fun read about finding a place that feels like home..

Felicity Hayes-McCoy's 'The Library at the Edge of the World' is a feel-good novel set in Southern Ireland. Another one with books at it's heart and, again, it's about the importance of belonging - of finding a place where you belong. Hanna drives a mobile library through the Irish countryside but yearns for the life she once had in London. That was before her marriage breakdown forced her to return home to Ireland and her sharp-tongued harridan of a mother. Then the threatened closure of the library has Hanna putting up a fight and in doing so she finds the life she has been searching for.


Right, I should get off now. The EM is treating me to brunch - not lunch, I didn't have breakfast this morning so brunch it is. I'll be back later to check out your desks.

Take care everyone and I hope you enjoy the week ahead.