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…
November was a challenging month, for many reasons. Even so, there were still plenty of little things to love sprinkled in amongst the hard parts. Here are all the little things I’ve been loving lately throughout November… READ We Are All Made Of Stars: by Rowan Coleman. I needed some fiction I could lose…
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…
October has been a very full-on month. Full of good things and everyday ordinary moments. Full of work and not enough sleep. Full of train journeys and long-ish drives and overcoming fears & challenges and lots of ‘firsts’. Full of life-stuff and big changes and important decisions. Full of music and magic and making memories…
September has been a full-on and curiously contrasting month of travelling (in the space of just over a week I flew to Barcelona for a few days break and went to London on two separate occasions for different work events), and time at home getting everyone settled back into school & college. It’s always been…
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…