Remember that you only have until midnight HOL-time tomorrow (the 17th) to submit an application.

This month’s gathering will be in #gamesroom on Sunday 24th February, 5 PM until 8 PM HOL-Time January’s session was a Social Deduction Special, starting with an old friend: Spyfall. First we were in a school. Questions about the number of rooms, books, cameras and people abounded. Unfortunately for...

Hi Kat! Welcome to HOL As it says in this Handy thread Q: How do I get pets and what do I do once I have them? It is currently not possible to purchase new pets, though you will be able to do so with beans once that feature is released. Once you have one, you can feed and pet your new companion ever...

For years, I've gone to sleep to the sound of distant thunderstorms. My mum has an ancient white noise machine with a range of watery sounds that I've pretty much stolen as it now lives in my room. The storms setting is the only one I really find restful: the ocean is too intrusive, the babbling str...

We’re looking for moderators for the HOL forum! A few moderator spots have opened up for forums or subforums in the ‘Student Lounge’ section of the forum. We’d like to hear from any member of the community, regardless of year or experience, who might be interested in volunteering their time to help ...

The excitement is palpable but in case you'd not noticed, it's the spring term and classes are open! Yay! So, time to ask this question again: what's everyone taking? I'm hoping to take Dueling, Magical Beings and Grindelwald's Crimes providing I'm accepted. I'm trying to make my class workload more...

But The Very Useful Guide mentioned a particularly good inn at Orchyre that served a famous jellied eel… -Garth Nix, Lirael A while ago over on Ink Splatters we talked about the importance of food in books. But in fictional worlds where there’s no such thing as a ‘Very Useful Guide’, how do intrepi...

The written word can transport us anywhere and this term, we’re taking that quite literally. Pack your book bags, lace up your finest reading boots and get ready for an adventure! Below you’ll find 3 maps to choose from. They show wild and untested terrain that you will have to traverse, encounterin...

If you have any questions about The Reading Treasure Map challenge, please ask them below and we'll get back to you ASAP

Welcome to a land containing a court of dragons, a society of wizards, a clean living witch, a very improper princess and several gallons of cherries jubilee. In February we’ll be reading Patricia Wrede's smart, enchanting and empowering Dealing with Dragons Below is a suggested reading schedule but...

9 times out of 10, talking is a way of avoiding doing things Here we’ll be discussing chapters 1 to 4 of Dealing with Dragons. From Cimorene’s initial decisions to the dinner party later on, the differences between talking and doing are present throughout these first few chapters. A lot of the time...

Whoever heard of a princess who could spin straw into linen thread? Here we’ll be picking over chapters 5 through 8 of Dealing with Dragons. A great deal happens in these chapters but one thing that we see throughout is people’s surprise at Cimorene’s unconventional ways and rejection of how things...

I’m much better at hopeless causes Here we’ll be talking about chapters 9 through 12 of Dealing with Dragons. Here the stakes of the story really start to reveal themselves and the plans afoot get a lot more serious and unpleasant. However, we also encounter a lot more of the whimsical, fairytale h...

Happily Ever After? Here we’ll be discussing chapters 13 to 15 of Dealing with Dragons, as well as the book as a whole. What do you think to Cimorene’s interpretation of happily ever after? Do you think that her ability to interpret so called rules and disregard, change or use them to her advantage...

This will be the final week of Flash Fiction for a while as we'll be welcoming Quick Quotes back for the Spring term. Don't worry though, we're not ditching the Story Cubes for good. They will make a return next school year. So, our final roll (for now) is.... Tortoise, tree, lightbulb For example.....

It's nearly that time again, folks. Join us in #gamesroom tomorrow, 5 to 8 PM HOL-time!

Due to a highly confusing and convoluted series of events involving a frog, a pot of colour-change ink, an iron skillet and a stack of pocket handkerchiefs that I’m struggling to fully comprehend (let alone explain), the announcement for our next monthly book is slightly late. But I’m delighted to s...

Will say it here too, happy birthday! Eat all the cheesecake

This week's rolls are....
Mask, Flower, Question

Something caught his eye and he crossed over to the dressing table. Beside a single orange flower lay a masquerade mask, neatly cut from plain brown paper. He fingered the stem of the flower. Was this a threat? A question? A warning? (42 words)

I think I speak for everyone ever when I say… NY at Arianna's place! Those games sound sensational and really fun. We once had a HP themed Girl Guide camp where we were sorted into houses based on what tents we were (even there when it was totally random, I still ended up as a lion) and each house w...