January has morphed into February, the promise of Spring is just around the corner and things are changing. I can feel it. Spectacular skies have been a welcome regular occurrence though day to day we’ve really just been keeping our heads down and quietly getting on with life. These images show that there is still…
As I write this it’s the deepest midwinter here in England: minus five degrees Celcius; grey and miserable. I am longing for sunshine and warmth and the chance to explore somewhere new. My thoughts keep wandering off ahead to our upcoming big trip to Boston and Cape Cod later this Spring, as well as nostalgically…
Truthfully? I’m finding the lack of outdoor adventures these last couple of months particularly hard. Being outside, even when it’s freezing cold and I can’t feel my fingers or toes or face, is absolutely vital for my mental wellbeing. It feels like such a waste of time staying inside when we could be out making…
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…
Happy moments from some time back at the beginning of January: new growth; pretty light; home improvements; slow days; and stepping outside of my comfort zone 🙂
Over time I’ve come to realise that it always takes me a little while to get going at the beginning of a new year. I’m not one of those people who launches into January all fired up and ready to achieve – I prefer a slower, more gentle start. I tend to spend January reflecting…
The paradox of time is already in evidence for 2019 as January feels like it’s simultaneously zoomed by and lasted 186 days already. The girls went back to school quite late this year and so we had a whole week of the Christmas holidays still to go at the start of the month, which we…
The new year always begins in the most positive of ways for us as we celebrate our youngest girl’s birthday at the start of January. I can’t think of a better way to bring colour and joy to the greyest of months. This year, she turned nine years old. Nine years of my little ray…
The start of 2019… a brand new year; birthday celebrations and back to school all in the space of a week! We’ve settled into our regular routine of early mornings, school runs, homework, activity clubs and work; everyone is tired already and I’ve started daydreaming about our travel plans for the year. I’m not a…
We begin January 1st every year with an empty glass jar and a stack of brightly coloured scraps of paper. They’re placed on the kitchen side together, easily accessible for all, and throughout the weeks and months that follow, whenever someone thinks of something that they’ve felt happy about (or proud of, or excited about)…