July has felt weirdly long, which is unusual because it normally flies by. Two out of three girls had finished school and college for the summer at the end of June (post-exams), so they were just at home having a well-deserved rest whilst I was still ferrying poor Lola to and from school for another…
June has been… intense. I’ve done a ridiculous amount of moving around this month – spending time in four different cities in the space of 30 days. It’s been a lot, especially alongside one of my busiest seasons of work and Mimi’s exams and school/college finishing for the summer. I feel like I’ve barely had…
The final stretch of late Spring has been intense for many reasons – it’s been a month full of birthdays and big exams with a few mini-adventures thrown into the mix too. Here are all the little things I’ve been loving lately throughout May… READ Instructions For Traveling West: by Joy Sullivan. Confession: Even…
April felt like a bit of a scattered month, much like the erratic rain showers that have dominated many of the days. It’s been alternatively full-on busy then almost achingly slow. I know the latter is needed as we prepare for a busy upcoming season of exams and uni visits, so I’ve tried to welcome…
March feels like it’s been a very long month and yet somehow, at the same time, I’m quite surprised that we’re suddenly already at the end of it. Everyone I’ve spoken to has felt the same. I’m never quite sure how that works. Either way, it’s been a long-short month full of fun things, as…
I find February hard, and despite it being the shortest month of the year, it often feels like the longest. Sometimes I keep my head down and stay quiet and just get on with things, and sometimes, like this year, I fill the month with as many good things as I possibly can to balance…
It always takes me a couple of weeks to get going in January. I prefer to start it slowly, easing gently into the new year like it’s a cold swimming pool rather than divebombing into the water with a big splash. This year has been no different and as a consequence January simultaneously feels like…
For seven years now I’ve been tracking my year in numbers – measuring the year according to all the things that are *actually* important to me (as opposed to all the things we’re told by the media and society to measure ourselves by). These metrics are the elements that I value the most in life:…
December felt like a bit of a slog and I seemed to have misplaced my sparkle for most of it. We had unseasonably mild weather and therefore a LOT of rain for the time of year (apart from a random snow day right at the start of the month), which probably didn’t help. In between…
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…