life lessons - Polly Jemima

Life lessons from Gardening

May 9, 2023

May is here, and it feels like finally, finally, new life is here. Winter felt long and cold this year, and spring slow to get off the ground. In the past couple of weeks, new life has truly begun emerging, those first tiny specks of green that poked their heads through the soil are at...

ADVICE, BLOG, FAMILY, INSPIRATION

What I learned from some lost photos

February 24, 2020

On Saturday my phone told me it needed to do a system update, having done them hundreds of times before, I clicked update, thinking nothing of it. Half an hour later, the update was all done, but when I picked my phone up, a box kept popping up every couple of seconds to tell me...

ADVICE, INSPIRATION

Giving thanks for the lessons of 2018

December 31, 2018

This time last year, I was in a very different place. I was still fighting depression and anxiety on a daily basis, while I kept a smile on to the world, trying to convince everyone that all was OK. I felt like it should be ok by that point. But the truth was I was really...

ADVICE, INSPIRATION

Life lessons, birthday wishes, and turning thirty seven

March 29, 2018

Happy Birthday to me! Today is my thirty-seventh birthday! How did that happen?! Closer to forty than I am to thirty, I guess I am one of those ‘proper‘ grown-ups haha! I was reading through the post I wrote this time last year when I turned thirty-six a few days ago, and it made me realise just...

JOURNAL

A love letter to 2016

January 1, 2017

2016 This will go down as the year that broke me, brought me to my knees. Showed me heartbreak like I could never imagine, and took me to the darkest depths of my mind. The year I learnt that no matter how much you love, how hard you try, how much of yourself you give...

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Life lessons from Gardening

What I learned from some lost photos

Giving thanks for the lessons of 2018

Life lessons, birthday wishes, and turning thirty seven

A love letter to 2016