Lilabean: A Storybook About Simplicity for Grown-Up Little Girls

My head gets in a terrible fuddle in January. My inner perfectionist whispers "Yes but shouldn’t January be a month of fresh starts and clean slates and brand new knickers?" My Mum says "Alison it’s January baby, thats all. It’ll all be over soon". And the rest of me pouts like a badly done to…

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Now then, I have just watched a lady of quite substanial years, stop outside my house, look around her in a very shifty fashion, and then when she was sure nobody was looking, open her mock croc handbag, pull out a pair of secateurs and snip away at my camellia bush!! An old lady thief!!…

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