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…
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…
April felt like a bit of a scattered month, much like the erratic rain showers that have dominated many of the days. It’s been alternatively full-on busy then almost achingly slow. I know the latter is needed as we prepare for a busy upcoming season of exams and uni visits, so I’ve tried to welcome…
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…
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:…