Lovely Blogs and useful links

Blogs that I love reading:


Beffy is an author who deserves more recognition; her blog ramblings are great.

Useful sites if you are new (like me) to blogging:

An opportunity to read books before they are published and additionally not pay for them.  I've lived in Yorkshire a while now.......

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