It seems to be taking me forever to write about everything that happened at Leap Retreat. Considering I was only in Colorado for such a short time (literally a weekend!), I have so much I still want to share and finding the headspace to do it is proving difficult owing to this current busy season of birthdays…
Early one Sunday morning back at the start of November, we bundled into the car and headed down to Marlborough. The purpose of the trip was to collect some of my Dad’s belongings from my Stepmum, who, after two and a half years of living alone in a town she only has bad memories of, is making…
Somehow almost two months have passed since I attended Leap Retreat in Colorado. So far I’ve shared my initial thoughts and feelings about the whole experience in Part One, and what I got up to for 12 hours in Denver in Part Two. I figured it was probably about time I shared one of the…
Way back in January, when I first learned that I’d been chosen out of nearly 5,000 people as the winner of a place at Leap Retreat, all I could focus on was the time I’d be spending in the Rocky Mountains with the other attendees, soaking up anything and everything we could about photography from our incredible…
I’ve been home from Leap Retreat for a month. A whole month! That’s almost unfathomable to me. It seems like it was only a couple of days ago that I was enveloped in the beautiful, magical place that is the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, and yet at the same time it seems so far away and so long ago…
It’s felt like a funny old half term. We missed most of it because of being on holiday in Florida, and lost the second half of it to jet lag. Of course it was totally worth it, it’s just left me feeling a little out of the loop season-wise. It definitely hasn’t felt like Halloween!…
Back at the end of the summer holidays (which feels like forever ago now as I sit here finally writing about it mid-October!) we all bundled into the car and headed down to Southampton for a couple of days to visit my best friend Rachel and her husband James. We had a brilliant time and…
One of my best friends, who I have known since I was seven years old, lives in Southampton – about 160 miles south of where we live. She and her husband have come up to visit us for a weekend a few times in the past and we always have a lot of fun – the girls adore…
Thanks to the nature of his job, the husband is usually at work at some point on a Saturday. Sometimes I use that time to catch up on necessary errands and life admin and housework whilst the girls have some much-needed downtime to spend reading, playing games, doing some colouring and drawing or watching a…
It feels strange to be writing about our adventures at Chester Zoo now, considering that we’re well over half way through September already. After all, it was back at the start of August that we visited for the day. I almost decided not to bother and then several things made me change my mind: we had such…