Now THAT's a school excursion....(Angela Brazil school story marathon continues)

I'm currently halfway through reading The Jolliest School of All on my new e-reader. One of the things I like about Angela's school stories is that almost all of her books are stand-alone stories ie. not part of a series, like those of many other well-known school story authors.

This one is set in a school in Naples, Italy. It's a school for daughters of expats.

So far the girls have been on excursions to Pompeii and Mt Vesuvius. There are whole chapters devoted to each day trip amidst all the usual school story topics. Fantastic stuff.

If you have an e-reader, you can download a copy for yourself free here.

Holiday reading....

...school stories from the early 1900s written by an author called Angela Brazil. I remember reading some of her short stories in Girls' Annuals at my grandmother's house when I visited her at Christmas time when I was a little girl.

So I (well Chris, actually) downloaded 24 of her books free to my new e-reader from Project Gutenberg.

This morning I had to have another two hour glucose tolerance test to make sure that my gestational diabetes has gone away. I booked it for today so I wouldn't have to take any of the kids with me, because Chris has the week off work. I spent the entire waiting time reading school stories on the e-reader. The screen froze a couple of times. I'm hoping that's just a teething issue and that it will improve in performance. Or, alternatively, that I will become more skilled at restarting it when this happens.