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All the Time in the World - Fun and Games: Colouring-In Sheets

 Today is our final Fun and Games  blog post, but don't worry! We have three sheets for you this time! We've created these three colouring-in sheets, and each one has an extra drawing challenge, so you can have twice as much creative fun! We would love to see your finished pictures, so remember to share them with us via email , Facebook , or BSky ! Let the colouring begin!

#HistFicThursdays - Cold Blows the Wind - Catherine Meyrick - Book Excerpt

 This week for #HistFicThursdays, I'm delighted to once again be teaming up with  The Coffee Pot Book Club  for author  Catherine Meyrick 's blog tour! Today, I'm sharing an excerpt from her fabulous book,  Cold Blows the Wind ! First of all, let's meet the book... Hobart Town 1878 – a vibrant town drawing people from every corner of the earth where, with confidence and a flair for storytelling, a person can be whoever he or she wants. Almost. Ellen Thompson is young, vivacious and unmarried, with a six-month-old baby. Despite her fierce attachment to her family, boisterous and unashamed of their convict origins, Ellen dreams of marriage and disappearing into the ranks of the respectable. Then she meets Harry Woods. Harry, newly arrived in Hobart Town from Western Australia, has come to help his aging father, ‘the Old Man of the Mountain’ who for more than twenty years has guided climbers on Mount Wellington. Harry sees in Ellen a chance to remake his life....