
A Festive, Dragonish Short Story Read-Along
A short festive tale from the world of Beaufort Scales and Toot Hansell, featuring dogs and dragons and a little too much mulled wine …

You Better Watch Out! (A Christmas Short Story)
A short Christmas story involving elves, Santa’s workshop, and some festive rebellion …

A Gift List for Book Lovers
It’s that time of year again. When we sit up in the morning, look at our phones and go…

Four Calling Birds – A Toot Hansell Christmas Story
Gilbert settled himself under the cover of a hedge, watching the bird through the window …

Rose’s Rom Truffles – A Toot Hansell Recipe
A quick and easy recipe for no-bake run and raisin chocolate truffles that also make fantastic gifts.

A Partridge in a Pear Tree – a Toot Hansell Christmas story
Was there some sort of official scale for these things, from harmless eccentricity to “call the care home”?

No-Knead Festive Bread – Cranberry, Wensleydale, & Walnut
I shall place a disclaimer here and point out that I do know it’s still November…

Gifting Ourselves Self-Care at Christmas
Lovely people, the regular readers among you may remember a similar…

Christmassy Cranberry-Pistachio Cookies (fit for dragons)
Now, I may not need an excuse to bake cookies. I mean, who does? Cookies…

Christmas Gifts for Bookworms That (Mostly) Aren’t Books
Look, I get it. We’re hard to buy for. Writers, bookworms, introverts – we’re weird…