March feels like it’s been a very long month and yet somehow, at the same time, I’m quite surprised that we’re suddenly already at the end of it. Everyone I’ve spoken to has felt the same. I’m never quite sure how that works. Either way, it’s been a long-short month full of fun things, as…
I find February hard, and despite it being the shortest month of the year, it often feels like the longest. Sometimes I keep my head down and stay quiet and just get on with things, and sometimes, like this year, I fill the month with as many good things as I possibly can to balance…
In September 2004 my best friend Rachel and I, both 21 years old at the time, spent three days in Paris together. I’d returned to the UK a few months earlier from over a year of travelling in Australia & New Zealand and still had a desperately intense and all-consuming travel itch to scratch. She…
It always takes me a couple of weeks to get going in January. I prefer to start it slowly, easing gently into the new year like it’s a cold swimming pool rather than divebombing into the water with a big splash. This year has been no different and as a consequence January simultaneously feels like…
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 seven years now I’ve been tracking my year in numbers – measuring the year 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 value the most in life:…
December felt like a bit of a slog and I seemed to have misplaced my sparkle for most of it. We had unseasonably mild weather and therefore a LOT of rain for the time of year (apart from a random snow day right at the start of the month), which probably didn’t help. In between…
November has been a bit of a strange month – it seemed like the longest month in the world and at the same time I feel like I blinked and suddenly Spotify Wrapped is out and it’s less than three weeks until Christmas. Ella came down with covid mid-month, which I guess was almost inevitable…
Phew, what a whirlwind few months it’s been since our wonderful stay at The Old Bakery in Bude. Summer came and went; the start of the new academic year brought with it a whole heap of changes for us as a family; and we’re now in the depths of a colourful Autumn with the festive…
October felt long. And busy. And beautiful. And challenging. All at once. I caught Covid for the second time and I was pretty poorly with it, although it didn’t flatten me like when I had it for the first time at the start of January so I was able to mostly keep functioning. There’s been…