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…
At the end of January 2020 I began using essential oils in our home. I posted about our experiences a few times on my Instagram stories and in return received quite a few questions about using oils. I thought I’d write a blog post to answer them all and also to share a little bit…
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…
We had grand plans and high hopes for Mimi’s twelfth birthday. We were supposed to be in Edinburgh in Scotland for the weekend and were intending to surprise her with an afternoon filled with exploring the Harry Potter trail and seeking out the best ice cream in the city (according to my friend Zoe, who…
May is going to be a month to remember even though it was more about what didn’t happen, rather than what did, much like April was. We’re now at the end of ten whole weeks of lockdown and have survived an entire half term of homeschooling. We were all very glad of the arrival of…
On my 33rd birthday four 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…
A small collection of rambling thoughts, a few notes about feelings and a selection of little stories from the last nine weeks of lockdown life which, for some reason, I feel compelled to share. Perhaps simply to document them as a memento of these strange times and maybe also partly so that they exist outside…