I love this week between Christmas and New Year. When the days all blur into one, real life is suspended, we get up late and go to bed late and seem to do nothing other than eat and watch movies.…
Year: 2022
9 days to go. I haven't been on here to just write for so long, life seems a bit all over the place right now. I thought I should pop in and catch up before the year is over! This…
Having finally passed my test this April {I'd been learning for a couple of years that was very stop/start with all the lockdowns, but I passed first time!} I am loving the freedom that having a car gives me. We've…
When I was a little girl, my Dad used to get a hamper each year from work. I can remember the excitement of it arriving and us delving inside to see what goodies were in there. It's one of those…
"Trust the wait. Embrace the uncertainty. Enjoy the beauty of becoming. When nothing is certain, anything is possible." Mandy Hale The last couple of weeks, it is as though a switch has been flipped. I feel lighter, freer, happier, content.…
I love spending time outdoors all year long, we set ourselves a goal at the beginning of the year of spending 1000 hours outdoors. We are almost at our goal - with less than 50 hours to go! Since passing…
Weekends. They're often seen as the holy grail - 'survive the week and enjoy the weekend'. I'm grateful that I have a life I don't need to 'survive' just to get two days at the weekend to enjoy. I am…
Dreams have long been a somewhat mysterious aspect of human existence. No matter how imaginative, brain-driven hallucinations can feel genuine and cause various feelings, from melancholy to panic. And the idea of lucid dreaming elevates things to a completely different…
Toddlers. I'm sure there are a thousand memes about toddlers, tantrums and surviving them. I've done these years 4 times already... though no two children are ever the same. I'm definitely a different parent to the one I was when…
Almost 10 years after we first got chickens {and 7 years since we said goodbye to them} - we've got chickens again!! I am SO excited - I've been wanting chickens again for ages. We rehomed our chickens when we…