July has been a different kind of month to usual. Everyone is home from school and uni, but I’ve still been working. Routine has gone out of the window and it’s felt a little chaotic – in a good way of course, I love having them home – but chaotic nevertheless. It’s left me feeling…
June has been a month of two distinct halves. The first couple of weeks contained the final stretch of GCSE and A Level exams for Lola and Mimi respectively, plus uni assignment deadlines for Ella, so all three of them had their heads down doing their best to get through them. And now, finally, everyone…
May has been a very, very full month in every way possible. Two birthdays, three trips to London in three consecutive weeks, an evening in Birmingham sandwiched in the middle, followed by a few days up in York too. I have spent a grand total of approximately 21 hours travelling on trains this month, which…
I take hundreds of photos every month, and most of them don’t get shared with anyone, let alone online. And yet the moments in time that those photos capture are just as important a part of our story as the other images that I do choose to share. I originally created this blog as a…
In contrast to the first three months of the year (which disappeared in the blink of an eye), April seems to have stretched on for ages. Perhaps because it’s been crammed so full of activities and events and excursions that I’ve barely paused to take a breath in the middle of everything. Maybe being divided…
After February’s endless, relentless rain, it felt like Spring had well and truly sprung in March with a couple of weeks of warm-ish temperatures and beautiful sunshine collectively making everyone feel better. (Sshhh…. we won’t mention the intense hail-and-snow-storm that randomly descended in the middle of the final week). The clocks have gone forwards, the…
I take hundreds of photos every month, and most of them don’t get shared with anyone, let alone online. And yet the moments in time that those photos capture are just as important a part of our story as the other images that I do choose to share. I originally created this blog as a…
February is the shortest month of the year and yet it always feels like the longest. I’m happy to be writing this post now because it means that it’s finally over and I survived. February holds a lot of sad thoughts and feelings for me – some years I seem to get through it all…
January – all 1,842 days of it – has felt exceptionally long. And, as ever, it has simultaneously disappeared in the blink of an eye. How are we one whole month into 2026 already?! My job has kept me incredibly busy since Christmas, which I’m grateful for. Life is ridiculously full-on. There has been so…
For nine years now I’ve been tracking my year in numbers – curiously measuring the twelve months that have just passed according to all the things that are *actually* important to me (as opposed to all the things we’re told by the media and society to measure ourselves by). These metrics are the elements that…