[BNM] Wordpress on my home page

[Jason Bailey]

Hello,

I'm being a bit thick here! I've set up a wordpress blog 
www.mywebsite.com/blog and I have a really simple home page basically 
saying click here for photos and click here for Christmas news ( the blog 
for the family).

I can interrogate the blog mysql database but I thought there must be a 
simple plugin or standard bit of code that will take just parts of the 
wordpress blog and display it on my home page. I'd like a particular bit of 
my blog to show. Do i have to write my own php/mysql or is there a way to 
do this. I don't mind doing the php/mysql but i assume there's something 
built-in. Or do people generally make the wordpress index.php their home 
page and edit the CSS etc as required.

Sorry new to blogging really and just thought it would be a simple way of 
adding blog entries to my homepage. Is it stiil ok to call it a homepage- 
it sounds so last century!

Jas