I have always said with absolute certainty that the first thing I would grab in a fire is my photos. As it turns out, I was wrong. You think you know how you’ll react. You think you know what it will feel like if the unimaginable happens. You think you know the steps you’ll take…
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…
Anyone who meets me for the first time quickly recognises just how important photography is to me. My camera is very rarely out of my hands – it’s pretty much an extension of me and I take it almost everywhere I go. I’ve been this way for as long as I can remember, though the…
Last January I read this post by Suzanne from Inside, Outside and Beyond and loved the idea of summing up the year in numbers (I can’t help it, I just love lists). I ended up putting my own post together (here) which measured 2017 according to all the things that were important to me and…
December has been the usual jam-packed and busy month of co-ordinating birthdays, school events and extra work alongside preparing for Christmas and making the magic happen. It’s always chaotic, noisy, messy, more than a little bit stressful (and I don’t tend to sleep very much) but I honestly wouldn’t have it any other way. There…
Gosh it’s the end of November already. This month has felt both long and short simultaneously. I’m not normally a fan of November – it’s a bit of an in between month full of dark, damp, cold weather and I tend to just keep my head down and get on with things. This year we…
I’ve been feeling a little bit lost recently. Maybe even a lot lost. Up until recently, we hadn’t been on an adventure for weeks – the girls have been pretty much refusing to leave the house (other than to go to school of course) and whole weekends were being spent either stuck indoors or simply…
I’m not quite sure how we’re suddenly at the end of October? The first half term stretch of the new school year is finally over alnd we’re all looking forward to a week off just pootling around the house and enjoying a few fun autumnal adventures because there haven’t been very many of those recently…
This time a year ago, at the end of September 2017, I was getting ready to head off on my first solo adventure in thirteen years. I’d been trying to mentally prepare myself for my trip for the best part of nine months, ever since I found out that I’d won a competition to travel…