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…
April has quite possibly been one of the strangest, loveliest and most frustrating (in equal measures) months that I’ve ever experienced. We’ve spent the full month in lockdown – in fact, I think we’re coming up to six whole weeks since it started at the end of March and life looks very different now from…
It’s April 2020 and we are deep in the throes of a global pandemic outbreak of coronavirus, also known as Covid-19. I’m writing this to document what life is currently like, the impact this situation is having on us and a few of my thoughts and feelings about it all. This blog was always intended…
It has been a very strange few weeks. March has seemed like a month of two halves in a way, starting off brilliantly with my trip to Atlanta in the US for ClickAway conference and then arriving home to complete and utter chaos. The global coronavirus pandemic had already begun to dominate the headlines plus…
February is my least favourite month of the year. 2020 represents five years since my Dad died and one year since the fire in our kitchen happened. I try and stay positive about it, but honestly, all the challenging stuff in our lives seems to happen in February! This year has been no different: our…
Every year starts off in the very best of ways as we celebrate Lola’s birthday at the beginning of January. This year she turned ten and I’m still finding it hard to believe that my littlest baby is now in double digits. I think maybe that’s why I’ve taken so long to write her birthday…
January has felt like a looooong old month. Illness; readjusting back to the routine of school life after the Christmas holidays; and grey, damp, chilly days have meant that we’ve not done anything very exciting. Instead our weekends have been spent mostly at home in the warm – snuggled up under blankets reading, doing piles…