In all honesty August hasn’t really felt much different to the previous five months of lockdown. Most places are open now (albeit with some restrictions still in place and lots of forward planning needed) but we still chose to stay quite close to home. It’s felt a lot like we’ve been in limbo, just waiting…
We made it! July has brought with it the start of the summer holidays and I have never been so glad to reach the end of a school term before. We survived homeschooling for 14 whole weeks (plus the Easter holidays and May half term, 17 weeks in total). I did actually really enjoy having…
I honestly don’t remember when I first fell in love with sunrises and sunsets. I sort of thought the feeling had always been there but actually, when I dived into it, curious about where it all started, I realised that I don’t really remember seeing them as a child at home or on family holidays…
June: we’re somehow already halfway through the year; three and a half months into lockdown; and ten weeks into homeschooling. It has felt like a very up and down month overall and even though the Government have announced that lockdown is beginning to ease, life is still nowhere near being ‘back to normal’. I’m…
May is going to be a month to remember even though it was more about what didn’t happen, rather than what did, much like April was. We’re now at the end of ten whole weeks of lockdown and have survived an entire half term of homeschooling. We were all very glad of the arrival of…
On my 33rd birthday four years ago, I wrote a post called ‘40 things Before I’m 40‘. It was a list of forty things that I want to do, achieve and experience before I turn forty years old in 2023. I’d originally started the list when I turned thirty but I hadn’t launched my blog…
A small collection of rambling thoughts, a few notes about feelings and a selection of little stories from the last nine weeks of lockdown life which, for some reason, I feel compelled to share. Perhaps simply to document them as a memento of these strange times and maybe also partly so that they exist outside…
April has quite possibly been one of the strangest, loveliest and most frustrating (in equal measures) months that I’ve ever experienced. We’ve spent the full month in lockdown – in fact, I think we’re coming up to six whole weeks since it started at the end of March and life looks very different now from…
It’s April 2020 and we are deep in the throes of a global pandemic outbreak of coronavirus, also known as Covid-19. I’m writing this to document what life is currently like, the impact this situation is having on us and a few of my thoughts and feelings about it all. This blog was always intended…
It has been a very strange few weeks. March has seemed like a month of two halves in a way, starting off brilliantly with my trip to Atlanta in the US for ClickAway conference and then arriving home to complete and utter chaos. The global coronavirus pandemic had already begun to dominate the headlines plus…