It is Easter this weekend, which (this year at least) means it’s April and time for another round-up. The shifting of Easter always gets me, I never know when it’ll be without Googling it. I have a vague idea that it’s the something Sunday after the something else but I can’t remember that without Googling it either. I bet Blyton would have known it!

What I have read

Not the greatest month for reading, I had a bit of a slump after I finished the 1930s/40s books in the Nightingale series. There are two more, but they jump back to the first world war and so are about different characters.

What I have read:

• Plan for the Worst (St Mary’s #11) – Jodi Taylor
• Five Are Together Again – the review consists of parts one, two, three and four
• A Nightingale Christmas Carol (Nightingales #8) – Donna Douglas
• The Nightingales Christmas Show (Nightingales #9) – Donna Douglas
• Practice Makes Perfect (Larkford #2) – Penny Parkes
• A Bumpy Year – Olivia Spooner
• The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches – Sangu Mandanna
• Nice Girls Don’t Bite Their Neighbours (Jane Jameson #4) – Molly Harper
• Must Love Books – Shauna Robinson

And I’m still working on:

• The Haunted Bookshop (Parnassus #2) – Christopher Morley
• Tilly and the Bookwanderers (Pages & Co #1) – Anna James

Five Get Together Again

What I have watched

• I’ve carried on with Richard Osman’s House of Games, Only Connect, and George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces.
• Although it turns out to not be quite what I expected I’ve watched more than three seasons of Good Witch this month. It’s very easy-going and genteel, so it’s easy to binge through.
• We have continued watching iZombie at weekends, plus some terrible horror-style movies which were The Sand and Into the Grizzly Maze.
• Tuesday nights films were He’s All That (the remake of She’s All That), Bring It On: Worldwide Showdown – something like #6 in a franchise that really should have stopped at #3 and She’s The Man.
• I introduced Brodie to The Real Ghostbusters (the 90s cartoon from my childhood) and I caught about half of Jurassic World which he was watching and totally loved. 

What I have done

• I held my first 3D printing demonstrations in March and had about 15 people across five sessions, which is a promising start.
• I built the Lego Pirates Forbidden Island to join the Eldorado Fort, this has also been taken over by avengers. I had planned to build the Black Seas Barracuda too, but it has taken several afternoons of digging through all the Lego to find the 900-odd pieces I need and I still haven’t located them all.
• We’ve gone on a few walks, sometimes with a home-made scavenger hunt to keep us occupied.
• I bought a cassette story tape that was a childhood favourite and converted it to MP3 so my sister and I could listen to it for the first time in 25 years.
• We visited Verdant Works for the first time (ever, I think) which is a jute mill museum. One of the volunteers was actually a mill worker back when she was a teenager!
• I did an old favourite jigsaw – The Garden of Eden – which I just got back from having lent it to my mum and sister during lockdown. It’s only 850 pieces, well, 847 as I’ve managed to lose a few, and the box is falling apart but I can’t part with it.

What did your March look like?