August has been a bit of a challenging month for a variety of reasons. Looking for glimmers each day (despite working pretty much non-stop) has been important, and thankfully there have been quite a few. Here are all of the little things I’ve been loving lately throughout August… READ The Pilgrimage: by Paulo Coelho. Cited…
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 the last year Ella and I have been travelling the length and breadth of the UK for various university open days. At the end of June we spent three days in York so we could visit the University of York – one of her top choices – and get a feel for the city…
Ella and I are spending the year travelling around the UK attending different university open days as she prepares to make her uni application this coming January. This post is about how we spent 48 hours in Brighton for the University of Brighton open day in June 2024. University Visits (so far…) We’ve already been…
July has felt weirdly long, which is unusual because it normally flies by. Two out of three girls had finished school and college for the summer at the end of June (post-exams), so they were just at home having a well-deserved rest whilst I was still ferrying poor Lola to and from school for another…
At the end of May half term, Ella and I spent a weekend in Exeter for the University of Exeter open day. Exeter is one of the universities that Ella has been most excited to look around. University Visits The University of Exeter is about 180 miles away from where we live so it made…
Back in March, Ella and I spent a whirlwind 48 hours in Dublin for the Trinity College Dublin open day. 2024 is a year full of university visits for us – I still can’t quite believe we’re at this point and that my eldest girl, the one who made me a mama, will be flying…
Last autumn Ella and I spent three days in Edinburgh for the University of Edinburgh open day – the very first open day we went to. We caught the train up to Scotland, stayed in one of the best airbnbs we’ve ever had the pleasure of staying in (with the loveliest host you could imagine),…
June has been… intense. I’ve done a ridiculous amount of moving around this month – spending time in four different cities in the space of 30 days. It’s been a lot, especially alongside one of my busiest seasons of work and Mimi’s exams and school/college finishing for the summer. I feel like I’ve barely had…
The final stretch of late Spring has been intense for many reasons – it’s been a month full of birthdays and big exams with a few mini-adventures thrown into the mix too. Here are all the little things I’ve been loving lately throughout May… READ Instructions For Traveling West: by Joy Sullivan. Confession: Even…