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…

July has been busy.  And… different.   I decided to take the whole month off from client-facing therapy work so I can focus on some other stuff that I’m creating behind the scenes and that has resulted in an entirely alternative rhythm in my day-to-day life. At the start of July I had a much-anticipated trip…

The first month of summer seemed to pass by in the blink of an eye.  There have been school trips and appointments and social get-togethers and sport events for the girls; a weekend away in Leeds watching cricket for Neil; our 8 year wedding anniversary, plus all the usual school-and-work-and-life-admin to navigate. Here are all…

On my 33rd birthday six years ago, I wrote a post called ‘40 things Before I’m 40‘. It was a list of forty things that I want to do, achieve and experience before I turn forty years old in 2023. I’d originally started the list when I turned thirty but I hadn’t launched my blog at…

May always feels like being on the cusp of something good: the promise of summer being just around the corner; everything is suddenly abundantly green; trees and hedgerows are full of life; wildflowers burst into colourful existence seemingly overnight; and there are warmer days, blue skies and sunshine. It’s been a bit of an up…