One Sunday at the start of February we made the hour-long journey further north to spend the afternoon at Rode Hall in Cheshire. Our previous visit to Rode Hall was in May last year. My birthday is at the beginning of May and I like to make a visit somewhere to see the bluebells as they’re usually in bloom…
A couple of weekends ago, on one of our regular-as-clockwork Saturday morning trips to the local library to make sure that Ella (our resident bookworm) was stocked up with enough books to last her for the whole week, I spotted a small display near the self check-out machines. Whilst the girls were choosing their books I wandered…
January is a funny old month. It’s deep midwinter, the fun and excitement of Christmas is over and the promise of Spring is still a little too far away to feel tangible. It’s dark and grey and cold and, if you’re anything like me, it can be hard to summon up to motivation to do…
Chrimbo Limbo. Twixmas. Whatever you call it, the week between Christmas and New Year is always a bit odd. No-one is ever quite sure what day it is; there are late nights and even (*gasp*) lie-ins for the girls (this really does feel like a bit of a Christmas miracle – they’re so worn out from the…
The husband working in the industry he does means that Christmas Eve is one of the busiest days/evenings of the year for him and so he always works a super-long day – starting in the morning, spending most of the day on his feet and not getting home until the early hours of Christmas Day. It means it’s…
There is absolutely no reason for this post other than because I absolutely love all of these photos I captured of the girls and I want to document them somewhere. I took these images last Sunday on a lovely, chilly, brisk morning walk up to the rope swings we discovered a couple of months ago…
We had a tough weekend. I’ve left it a couple of days to post about it because I wanted to let it all settle and organise my thoughts and clear my head first. The weather wasn’t brilliant (Storm Angus on the way!) and our instincts were to stay in and hibernate, apart from taking Mimi…
This is part two of a blog all about our unexpected little mini-break in Dorset over half term. You can find part one here. MONDAY I woke up early (as always) to the sound of torrential rain. I’d checked the weather the night before and it had forecast rain so I’d been expecting it, but…
I’d had half term all planned out. Sophie was coming to visit for the week, we were going to have fun doing some of the things on our Autumn Bucket List and I’d factored in some much-needed downtime as well after a jam-packed and busy first six weeks back at school. And then, as so often happens…
“Two roads diverged in a wood and I, I took the one less travelled by. And that has made all the difference”. Robert Frost I’ve written a few times about how much we love Cannock Chase forest, which we are lucky enough to have right on our doorstep, and we often head up there on…