Walking each day during lockdown I am discovering new podcasts to listen to.

• The Rewatchables - a good friend put me on to this - a group of American movie buffs (Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, Chris Ryan) sharing their favourite films and the things they love watching again and again. They cover many great films (Inception, The Godfather, The Shining …..) and have categories they work through to analyse and share great movie trivia and movie making secrets. The banter is fun, but what is best is that it makes you want to sit down and watch those films again armed with the new insights they have left you with. Stories of the directors, actors and reasons why some scenes are as great as they are; and why you remember them long after you see the movie!

• Bookclub (BBC Radio 4) - is a podcast where the author chats with readers about the book they have written. I am listening to the one with Gail Honeyman - author of “Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine”. A book I am yet to read myself but know that many book clubs have on their reading list! There are many great authors to listen to and you would be sure to find one you admire and would like to hear discuss their work.

• Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness - Jonathan is one of the fab five from “Queer Eye”. The lovable hair stylist tackles many issues relevant to America but I am listening to the episodes dealing with self love and personal growth. It is Jonathan just chatting away unfiltered with interesting people that he admires or he is interested in knowing more about their field of expertise. It is like listening to close friends catch up. If you adore Jonathan you will laugh along. He is a character so be warned his honesty is unchecked!

Our book library was back … and then it disappeared again … and now it is permanently back. Hooray.

And it has been restocked with lots of books for kids and adults.

Pop past and check it out!

And, while on the subject of books, have you read anything you’d recommend lately? It would be great to get some suggestions together for a community post about good books. So, please comment with your recommendations if you are reading on Facebook or Instagram … or send us an email by clicking here.

Hi, Leanne here again.

I can’t even remember why I started watching the Netflix made series Crash Landing On You a couple of weeks ago - but for whatever reason - I just wanted to share that it was one of the BEST decisions of my television viewing life … ushering me into the time-vortex of Korean drama.

16 episodes, each around 80 minutes long - hours of subtitled TV that you can’t afford to turn away from for an instant. Packed with humour, romance in spades, life, death … oh, it is just too much!

I recommended it to mum and dad who binged it. And my sister who binged it. I got Clive (my husband) and India (my oldest) to watch it. And whilst they are still getting through (and over the gut wrenching, heartbreaking romance of) this first series, I’ve already finished it (I just couldn’t resist the next episode - and then the next) and am rewatching it with them … and in the last couple of weeks I’ve also watched 2 other K-dramas as well.

At approximately 20 hours of TV per series it’s quite a commitment! No wonder I’ve been up til 2am.

Anyway … I can’t believe I reached my 40s before discovering that this fabulous viewing was hiding in plain sight in my Netflix feed! I’m hooked.

K-drama. I highly recommend it!

Crash Landing On You … just this poster makes my heart flutter!

We’re loving getting feedback from you on our posts and weekly news.

Following our post about good TV shows to watch, we’ve had some suggestions, including this quick note.

It was good to see your TV suggestions. We've enjoyed The Stranger (British made mystery, thriller) and The English Game (drama based on the early days of the English Football Association which is a heartwarming story of two key players from Old Etonians and a team from a northern mill town). Both on Netflix.

If you too would like to chip in and share anything … we’d love to hear from you! Just email us.

With the younger kids back at school and the older kids able to (responsibly, social distantly) socialise a little again, the house may be quiet enough for those middling (10-13-year-old?) kids to maybe read a book or two…? We live in hope.

Here are five recommendations from an 11-year-old in the know:

‘A beautiful mystery about a growing friendship.’

Evie would never have met Lucy and Jemma if the accident hadn’t happened. But here they are sharing a hospital ward. When the three girls witness a crime in the park below their window, it sets off a chain of events that will change each of them forever.

‘This is a heartwarming book which looks into the life of a young girl with cerebral palsy.’

Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory. Her head is like a video camera that is always recording. And there’s no delete button. She’s the smartest kid in her whole school - but NO ONE knows it.

‘A Warm book about a girl looking for her mother.’

Everyone tells Sophie that she was orphaned in a shipwreck, but Sophie is convinced her mother also survived. When no one believes her, Sophie sets out to prove them wrong…

‘This is a hilarious, magical book which gives unforgetable characters and worlds.’

Morrigan Crow is cursed…Born on an unlucky day, she is blamed for all local misfortunes, from hailstorms to heart attacks - and, worst of all, the curse means that Morrigan is doomed to die at midnight on Eventide…

‘A mysterious book that will keep you on your toes.’

Miranda’s world is turning upside down. Her best friend Sal shuts her out of his life when he’s punched by a new kid for no apparent reason. Her mum is about to be a contestant on a TV game show. A key goes missing, then a pair of shoes. And Miranda finds a mysterious note scrawled on a tiny piece of paper: “I am coming to save your friend’s life, and my own. I ask two favours. First you must write me a letter….”