Category: * Slow Living & Rhythm *

Bathroom Products You Should Make From Home

Cosmetics and toiletries are full of potentially harmful chemicals, with women coming into contact with almost 700 ‘chemicals of concern’ each month. Many ingredients can be carcinogenic, meaning they could lead...

Festive Rituals | Stockings

Do you do stockings at Christmas? For me, I think it’s one of my favourite things. We’ve had a Christmas stocking tradition for the past 12 Christmases now. The first...

Festive Rituals | Christmas Movie Nights

The thing I love most about Christmas is the rituals. The things we do year after year, that we look forward to for months beforehand, the things that bring us...

35 Advent Activity Ideas

With just a week until December 1st, I’ve been putting together this years activity advent calendar. I’ve made the kiddos an activity calendar for the past few years, and they love...

Embracing Autumn

As much as I’m a warm weather gal, living for the summer and sunshine on my skin, there’s something magical in the air that calls to me as September...

A family meal plan for September

I was weirdly excited for this month’s meal plan. September feels like the start of a new season. Summer is over, kids are back to school {or not back to school},...

Encouraging kids to eat healthily

I have four kiddos, and four very different eaters, both in terms of what they like, how often they eat, and what they avoid. I have one vegetarian, one who...

Recently Read Books

I made a pact with myself to read more this summer. I used to devour books, then the last few years I just haven’t ‘had time’ to read as...

When silence isn’t golden

I’m sat in my living room, there is the buzzing of a fly somewhere, the faint sound of the radio coming from the kitchen and the occasional car whizzing past...

Slow days, garden time and a life, lately

I’ve stepped away from the online world of late. The noise and pace of a life lived online felt too much, and I felt called to slow down, to step away...

10 ways to celebrate the summer solstice as a family

The summer solstice is just around the corner – this year, here in the UK, it falls on June 21st {at 5.24 am to be precise!}. We love to celebrate...

Some thoughts on being a one {wo}man show

It’s been six months since I took the decision to throw my husband out, six months of being a single parent to four kids. Life has settled back down to...

Ideas for a slow sunday

Life is pretty hectic, it gets busy and stressful and by the weekend more often than not I’m exhausted and want to hide in a cave! Mama’s keep on going,...

These are the days

Wednesday was one of those days that doesn’t go right from the minute you open your eyes. When your instinct to stay in bed, and wait for the next day...

Some thoughts on our now

It’s almost 4pm here, sat on the sofa waiting for Lola to get home from school, and waiting to take Baya to her gym class in twenty minutes time. Beastie...