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…

February has been… interesting.  I’ve been solo-parenting and holding down the fort for just over three weeks whilst Neil travelled to the other side of the world to watch the England cricket team play two test matches in New Zealand, with adventures in Los Angeles and Fiji along the way. We weren’t sure if he…

Hello and happy new year!  It seems strange to be saying that at the end of January but I honestly don’t know where this month has gone. I started 2023 off in style by testing positive for Covid on New Years Day, having successfully avoided it for almost three years.  I felt pretty rough, which…

December seemed like quite hard work and I felt as if I put in lots of effort just to get through it, as wonderful as it was in many, many ways.  I was still on crutches for 3/4 of the month and as a result I had to cancel plans with each of my best…

November felt like it lasted for an eternity, despite being relatively busy.  I am a summer/early autumn girl at heart and absolutely not a fan of darkening mornings & evenings and incessant rain. I’m doing my very best to embrace each season for what it brings but I confess that I do tend to find…

I’m finding it hard to believe that it’s already time for me to be writing my October Little Loves post – I haven’t even shared about our trips to Spain and the Isle Of Wight in the summer holidays!  And yet time continues to march stubbornly onwards and so here we find ourselves: halfway through…

I usually love September: chilly mornings; sun-warmed afternoons; golden evening light; the leaves just beginning to change colour whilst plenty of green still remains.  The skies are always spectacular at sunrise and sunset.  And yet this year something has felt… ‘off’.  I can’t quite explain what it is. I’ve gone through the motions of noticing…

August has been a memory-making (and patience-testing!) month of travelling and first experiences.  We began August on a week-long family holiday in Spain where we completely switched off for seven days, swiftly followed by Ella and I spending a whirlwind 24 hours in London for a gig the day after we arrived home.  The end…