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…
It seems crazy to be writing about what’s been going on in our world throughout December – I’m sure that summer has only just finished and the girls went back to school not that long ago…? As it always is, December has been a month of fast and slow; of busy-ness and quiet; of being…
This is a very delayed (*ahem*… six months late. Oops.) post to share what we got up to in the second half of our mini break in North Wales back in mid-summer. After a long and intense exam season, I decided to take the girls on a mini break to North Wales for a few…
To me, November always feels like a bit of an in-between month. A waiting. A head-down-and-get-on-with-things-until-the-next-break kind of a month. If months had a colour, November would be grey. Which probably isn’t really very fair because there’s all the glitter and smoke of bonfire night (although I didn’t manage to do sparklers this year), plus…
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…
For many years, I have maintained that September is my favourite month. This year, I’m declaring that October has the equal honour of joint first place for the accolade. I don’t know exactly what’s changed, but something inside me has shifted. Perhaps I’m paying closer attention to the little things and noticing the ordinary everyday…
September passed in the blink of an eye. It’s my favourite month of the year – there’s something about that glorious blend of the warmth of the late summer sun, coupled with the cooler morning autumn air and the golden light that makes everything it touches look magical, that makes me feel like anything could…
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…
August has been a busy, busy, busy month full of good things. We haven’t gone away on holiday anywhere this summer (either in the UK or abroad) for various reasons, and I was feeling quite sad and a bit guilty about that, but actually, even though I’ve had to work a fair bit and there…
It has been a long and intense season of exams for all three of the girls over the last few months. To celebrate finally reaching the culmination of them at the end of June, I booked us a long weekend in North Wales – a little road trip adventure to discover somewhere new. We arrived…