July has felt a bit like a rollercoaster of highs and lows. All three girls had to isolate from school, one after the other, like dominoes. The return to home learning again was not something I’d anticipated this late in the school year. Ella was first, when a student in her half of the year…
June has been a full-on month with both work and play and as a result it feels like it’s disappeared in the blink of an eye – how are we halfway through 2021 already?! Having spent the first part of Whitsun half term exploring Edinburgh at the end of last month on our first ever…
May felt like a month of two halves. The first two weeks involved a lot of rain (the inevitable flipside of the glorious weather we had during our week in Cornwall in April perhaps?!) and a lot of waiting. Waiting for the weather to improve (we had the heating on. In May!). Waiting for news…
April feels like it’s stretched on for ages. For all the right reasons though – it’s been full of good things. We’ve been doing our best to make the most of the last month of having Neil home with us full time before he goes back to work at the start of May to get…
March has been a month of two halves: I didn’t pick up my camera at all for the whole of the first two weeks (which is unheard of for me) – I was just so busy trying to balance home-schooling with being incredibly busy and full-on with my own work that there wasn’t time to…
In March 2020, a whole year ago, I attended my first ever ClickAway Photography Conference. ClickAway is an annual photography event run by the brilliant ClickinMoms community and it takes place in a different location in the United States every year. ClickAway 2020 was held in the beautiful city of Atlanta, Georgia. *Please note that…
The end of February represents the end of Winter in my eyes and that is definitely a good thing. I’m desperate for some spring sunshine and very much hoping that it’s just around the corner. It’s felt like this month has gone quite quickly and I can’t quite believe that tomorrow is March. I can’t…
On 1st January 2016 we began what has turned out to be a new family tradition: the Happy Jar. The Happy Jar started out as just a fun activity to do with the girls and, in truth, I wasn’t sure how long it would capture their attention for although I was hopeful it would last. …
Exactly a month ago, at the beginning of January, Lola turned eleven years old. Eleven! I still can’t quite believe it – how is my baby eleven? Looking back at her birthday blog post from last year I’m amazed at how much she’s changed and, well, grown up. Of course this time last year none…
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…