We spent a week in Devon at the start of the summer holidays, staying with one of my best friends from school who now lives in Plymouth. It’s a long drive…
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I feel like I’ve been in a kind of summer blog hibernation, where although I have managed to write a few posts and keep things ticking over it’s been ages since…
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These first few weeks of September have been a pretty chilled out time, with Sam back at school and Flo easing her way into reception class with a run of half…
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In the early hours of Saturday, I joined a group walking up Snowdon, the highest mountain in Wales, to raise money for a fantastic cause. The group was from Wirral St…
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The fact that I’m writing this August update a few days into September may tell you all you need to know about how the last month of the summer holidays went.…
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A spellbound forest, a midnight feast, lantern making, a fairy queen, twinkly lights and lots and lots of glitter – Just So was our first weekend family festival and it was…
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I have a bit of a tick list of places I’d like to go out in Leeds and Belgrave Music Hall was one of them, until that is I took my…
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We’ve just spent a week in Devon, staying with friends before travelling up to Crealy Adventure Park and Resort in Exeter. As a child many of my family holidays were spent…
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I’ve got a bit of thing for anything rose-scented at the moment, I think ever since I was given some rose hand cream from Jurlique I became a bit obsessed. My…
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When I come to write these monthly posts, it is usually the last day of the month and I can only remember what we got up to in the past seven…
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Some of my happiest memories are of the birthday parties I had as a child; you know, in the 80s, when everyone just invited their school friends, neighbours and cousins over…
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Two years on from my husband’s death and when people ask me if I’m ok, well sometimes I am and other times I am anything but. The thing about loss and…
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Our recent holiday to Levante Beach Resort in Rhodes had so much to offer in the way of five star facilities, great food and activities for all ages. I’ve already written…
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I’ve been joining in with the Me and Mine photography project for more than two years now and although it’s great that we have family snapshots of every month in that…
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Growing up I was lucky enough to live in a town which had its own outdoor pool, something I always thought of as normal and not at all fancy. Now I’ve…