It has been all about exams this month. After half term finished it was straight back into the second half of Ella’s GCSEs, which were immediately followed by Mimi’s Year 10 Mocks – the first time she’s experienced formal exams and understood what the whole process is like. They both coped admirably well and are…
May was such a busy and intense month. It was jam-packed full of good things, especially during the first two weeks – there was something happening almost every single day. The big news is that I turned 40 years old (!) this month so there were several mini-celebrations connected to that: two birthday surprises that…
On my 33rd birthday seven years ago, I wrote a post called ‘40 things Before I’m 40‘. It was a list of forty things that I wanted to do, achieve and experience before I turned forty years old. I’d originally started the list when I turned thirty but I hadn’t launched my blog at that point…
Every year we travel to Cornwall at Easter for our annual holiday in Bude – our happy place for almost a decade now. This year our trip felt more important and necessary than ever – a final chance to rest and recharge before the intensity of our eldest daughter’s GCSE exams began the following month….
April was a month of two halves. The first two weeks – the Easter holidays – went SO fast and the second half of the month felt like it dragged on forever. It still astonishes me how time stretches and expands and shrinks and contracts on a minute by minute basis at the moment, let…
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…
I always welcome March with open arms after the annual challenges that February brings. The arrival of Spring, the world starting to wake up and the light beginning to reappear makes such a difference in so many ways – mood, energy levels, motivation and more. Neil returned home from his epic three-week long trip to…
February has been… interesting. I’ve been solo-parenting and holding down the fort for just over three weeks whilst Neil travelled to the other side of the world to watch the England cricket team play two test matches in New Zealand, with adventures in Los Angeles and Fiji along the way. We weren’t sure if he…
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…
Hello and happy new year! It seems strange to be saying that at the end of January but I honestly don’t know where this month has gone. I started 2023 off in style by testing positive for Covid on New Years Day, having successfully avoided it for almost three years. I felt pretty rough, which…