In September 2023 I went on a solo adventure to Lisbon in Portugal. This (ahem, eighteen months late) blog post is part one of a series of travel diaries documenting what I got up to whilst I was there. Travel Addict I love to travel – in the UK and abroad. I caught the bug…
March has been a stressful and difficult month for a multitude of reasons. And yet, in the midst of all the messy feelings and circumstances, there have been both big and little things to love, and they have been an important part of me being able to manage. The anchor I find in the unwavering…
In September 2024 I was lucky enough to be able to visit Spain to spend a few days solo in beautiful Barcelona. Visiting this fascinatingly unique city has been a long-held dream of mine, so I was thrilled to be able to finally make it happen. I had three full days there to explore (plus…
In September 2024 I was lucky enough to get to visit Spain for a short solo mini-break in Barcelona. Visiting this beautiful city has been a long-held dream of mine, so I was thrilled to be able to finally make it happen. I had three full days there to explore (plus a travel day either…
February is, generally, my least favourite chapter of the year. It might be the shortest month, but it’s full of difficult anniversaries. This year marked a decade without my Dad, and it’s been so grey all month that I often felt like I was drowning. And then a day would come along where the sky…
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…
Ordinarily, January is supposed to be a relatively quiet time of the year. There’s the lull after all of the festive season activities and get-togethers are over, and it’s traditionally a time to reflect on the year that’s just gone as well as planning & setting intentions for the year ahead. Our house did not…
In September 2024 I was lucky enough to get to go on a solo mini-break to the beautiful city of Barcelona in Spain. Spain has always been close to my heart. I visited a lot as a child & young teen as I had family who lived in Nerja on the Costa del Sol, plus…
For eight years now I’ve been tracking my year in numbers – 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 I…
December felt like it disappeared in a flash – I blinked and missed it. It’s been a month full of exams and illness, plus the fridge-freezer decided to break down in quite dramatic fashion five days before Christmas as well, with no engineer available to come and fix it until the evening before Christmas Eve…