I always welcome March with open arms after the annual challenges that February brings. The arrival of Spring, the world starting to wake up and the light beginning to reappear makes such a difference in so many ways – mood, energy levels, motivation and more. Neil returned home from his epic three-week long trip to…
When I was a little girl, somewhere around seven years old (at a guess), my Mum and I went on holiday to the Isle of Wight, just the two of us, and had the best time exploring together. I’ve been wanting to go back and re-visit the island for years and years, particularly now that…
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…
We have been lucky enough to be able to do a fair bit of travelling this year, both individually and as a family. Neil went to Barbados with a friend to watch cricket for 11 days in March; I went to Chicago for a 3-day photography conference in July; and we spent our annual week…
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…
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…
April has been a busy month! I’ve spent a good portion of it travelling – up to Manchester for an evening, down to London for the day and a family holiday in Cornwall for a week during the Easter holidays. Nothing makes me happier than being out and about doing stuff so although I’m utterly…
I take hundreds of photos every month, and most of them don’t get shared with anyone, let alone online. And yet the moments in time that those photos capture are just as important a part of our story as the other images that I do choose to share. I originally created this blog as a…
I find that I need to ease quietly into January, the way you might tentatively slip into a cold swimming pool – I’m not a fan of diving in head first and getting the shock over with. It’s probably a good thing that I prefer to start slowly as January almost never goes according to…