Hello 2021. The start of a brand new year is usually full of anticipation, promise and excitedly scribbled down ideas & plans for the coming months. Instead January began in much the same way as 2020 ended: lockdown number three. Schools closed, shops closed, still unable to see the people we love. It wasn’t what…
In 2017 I took a leaf out of Suzanne from Inside Outside and Beyond’s blog pages and started tracking my year in numbers, measuring the year according to all the things that are important to me and which I value the most: family time; love and connection; travel; creativity; helping others and personal challenges/growth. I enjoyed documenting…
December has felt like an extraordinarily mixed month, as I’m sure it has for many people. I think everyone has experienced the entire spectrum of emotions in rollercoaster form on repeat over the last few weeks: Frustration at extra layers of restrictions and the ‘too little too late’ response from the Government regarding case numbers…
November 2020 has been a month of naked trees, drizzly rain and lockdown 2.0. Normally I find that November, the cusp between late autumn and early winter, drags on and on and on. This year has been quite the opposite – I feel like I’ve barely been able to catch my breath in between doing…
October felt like it sped by fairly quickly. Usually this autumn school term drags and seems to take forever to get through and yet time seems to be following a completely different set of rules this year. I found myself surprised to be putting the clocks back an hour on the oven and in my…
September is one of my favourite months of the year: a crisp chill in the morning air; warm afternoons; golden light in the evenings; the new school term; autumn colours beginning to creep into the landscape; soup and porridge making a return to the menu; and a different kind of energy that fuels a positive…
In all honesty August hasn’t really felt much different to the previous five months of lockdown. Most places are open now (albeit with some restrictions still in place and lots of forward planning needed) but we still chose to stay quite close to home. It’s felt a lot like we’ve been in limbo, just waiting…
We made it! July has brought with it the start of the summer holidays and I have never been so glad to reach the end of a school term before. We survived homeschooling for 14 whole weeks (plus the Easter holidays and May half term, 17 weeks in total). I did actually really enjoy having…
I honestly don’t remember when I first fell in love with sunrises and sunsets. I sort of thought the feeling had always been there but actually, when I dived into it, curious about where it all started, I realised that I don’t really remember seeing them as a child at home or on family holidays…
June: we’re somehow already halfway through the year; three and a half months into lockdown; and ten weeks into homeschooling. It has felt like a very up and down month overall and even though the Government have announced that lockdown is beginning to ease, life is still nowhere near being ‘back to normal’. I’m…