September is my most favourite month of the year. And yet somehow today is already the first of October and I feel like I’ve quite literally blinked and missed it. I treat September as my New Year, far more than I do January. I don’t do Spring-cleaning. Instead I have what I call ‘Autumn clear-outs’. I…
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 share. I created this blog as a way of documenting…
Confession: I found these summer holidays hard. I felt like I’d been at my most shoutiest for a long time. The littlest one tentatively asked me on one particularly bad day: “Mummy, why are you so angry today?”. Cue instant guilt and feeling like I’d been punched in the stomach. I hadn’t been angry had I? …
As I write this, the last of my summer blog posts, we are already three-quarters of the way through September. I’m really not quite sure how that happened. For a start, the weather has been absolutely lovely over the last few weeks (with the occasional exception of the odd rainy day or chilly morning) and so…
One Sunday a few weeks ago we were at a bit of a loss as to what to do. We’d exhausted pretty much everything on our Summer Bucket List (which was relatively short anyway as I wanted a slower, more simple summer than the usual mad-busy craziness that I normally create by packing as much…
This is Part Two of a rather lovely and unplanned afternoon spent at the Canalside Farm, Shop and Cafe in Great Haywood. You can find Part One, with lots of photos from our walk by the canal, here. Once we’d finished our walk we headed back to where we began to search out a snack – we’d built up…
Absolutely ages ago I had a cuppa with a friend I hadn’t seen in a long time. Usually we meet at one of our homes but on this occasion we fancied a change and decided to go out. She suggested the Canalside Cafe in Great Haywood, about 15-20 minutes away from where I live. I’d…
Over the summer holidays my girls have been going to a kids yoga class called ‘Yoga Warriors’ at Sky Blue Yoga Kids in Stafford. I am so impressed that I wanted to give it a big shout-out here because more people need to know about it. Claire is a fantastic teacher – she always has a…
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 share. I created this blog as a way of documenting…
As you may have figured out by now if you are a regular reader of this blog, we’re big fans of ice cream! When we are away on holiday, it’s a family tradition of ours to eat an ice cream every day. Plus we’ve had our fair share over the summer holidays whilst we’ve been…