For one week a year in July, the Real Flower Petal Confetti Company throws open it’s gates to the public before the harvest begins. Golden wheat fields on one side; acres of colourful flowers on the other; an outdoor café with straw bales for tables; pretty bunting lazily twisting in the breeze… and I had no idea…
Time is a funny old thing isn’t it. All of the other months so far this year have absolutely whizzed by and yet July has felt like the longest month on record to me. I think it’s because we’ve all been on our knees with exhaustion, just willing it to be the end of the term so…
Every year towards the end of July, the girls and I make a ‘Summer Holiday Bucket List’ full of all the things we’d like to do during the six week break from school. I know better than to plan in too much detail (I’ve learnt from experience!) as the weather will inevitably get in the way of certain…
A few Sundays ago the weather forecast was warm and sunny, and, knowing how rare that can be in the British ‘summer’, we decided to make the most of our brand new National Trust family passes and explore somewhere new. We’re lucky enough to have quite a few National Trust properties within an hour or so from…
If you’re a regular reader of my blog you’ll know by now that we regularly visit Bude in North Cornwall. It’s long been a favourite place for my husband and I – we’ve both been going there since we were small children. Now that we have daughters of our own we wanted to continue our family story by taking…
“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul” ~ John Muir One of our favourite local places to visit is Cannock Chase, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It stretches far and wide, from Milford at it’s northern tip, Cannock in the South, it’s eastern edge falling just shy of Rugeley,…
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 created this blog as a way…
Well, that was June (I think!) – I feel like I’ve blinked and missed it because it’s gone so quickly. How are we half way through the year already?! June has been a bit of an emotional month, full of lovely things and important milestones as well as a couple of less-lovely and unexpected things that popped…
In exactly three months time I’ll be on a plane somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean, on my way to Denver, Colorado. Back in January I entered a competition to win a space at Leap Retreat, an intimate workshop for just ten women, hosted by Sarah Cornish of My Four Hens Photography, who’s incredible family photography…
Last week was weird. There’s no other way to describe it. I’ve been feeling quite unsettled as a result of all the things that happened – probably because it was all within a relatively short space of time. And also – I’m realising as I’m writing this – because all of it was completely beyond my…