On my constant quest for escapism and relaxation, I was more than happy to try out the spa at the Midland Hotel in Manchester last weekend. Would I like to go…
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September has been a month of new beginnings, new routines and making plans. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t relieved to start this month; I mean I loved the…
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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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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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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…
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You may or may not have noticed I’ve had a bit of a break on my blog, my writing has slowed and I’ve probably posted a little less on social media…