Words for Wednesday…


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Before I was a parent, I had time to myself. Quite honestly, since my boys arrived, taking care of myself has become a permanent backseat priority. I used to have nice hair, make up and nails – and now I have a ponytail or plait, I’m fresh faced and my nails are bare. I’m a…
Since our long haul holiday was cancelled due to the current pandemic, let’s just say that holiday time has been on my mind…a lot. As Winter is creeping closer, all I can think about are making memories away from home – probably because we’ve been at home for the past 8 months – and the…
Snowy days in Hampshire are very few and far between. We get plenty of wet days, an abundance of windy days from the Southampton coast, and lots of toe-curlingly cold days, but few snow days. So when we awoke to a flurry of flakes and a blanket of white purity on Friday, we moved understandably…
So, what’s been happening in the last seven days? I’ve skipped a few weeks whilst we migrated and I found my feet, and so here we are again, rounding up the week. Well, it’s summer apparently here in Hampshire and although we sadly aren’t going on holiday this year, it’s been an okay start to…
Although I adore Hallowe’en, I’m equally as excited about the event that follows it; Bonfire Night. Arguably we’re approaching one of the most dangerous times of the year – and with three boys under five I’m alert to many of the dangers I never considered when I was a child, having fun “oooh”ing and “ahhh”ing…
Cross-legged on the floor, rifling through my parents’ huge box of photographs I began to wonder. There are hundreds of sepia, black and white and polaroid photographs of around a decade and a half of holiday memories. Memories made here in England, on our green and pleasant land. Windbreaks and wellyboots, camping or caravanning, we…