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…
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…
September is usually my favourite month of the year. This time it felt both infinitely long and as if it passed by in the blink of an eye – it’s been full-on in so many ways. The summer sunshine we’d been hopefully waiting for all throughout July and August finally decided to show up during…
In direct contrast to the crazy busy-ness that was July, August has felt long and slow, even though we have done a fair number of things. It’s seemed like a month of being held in limbo: waiting for Ella’s GCSE results; waiting to hear back about various job applications she’s submitted; waiting for the summer…