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…
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…
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…
July was busy. There is no other word for it – it was simply full-on with work plus all of the end-of-term things happening at school (reward trips, prom, vaccinations, teacher strike days and more). We did a lot of travelling around the UK this month too, with visits to Brighton, Southampton, Cornwall and London. …
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…
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 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…