24 hours alone – we needed that.
I shared this past weekend that we were celebrating our eighteenth wedding anniversary. We had 24 hours alone, away from normal life, to mark that. We made it to a fairly big number. We have two years til we hit the big twenty. We plan to head to Las Vegas with the kids, to celebrate […]
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Project 365 – a photo a day – Swan Paternity Responsibility
Project 365 – a photo a day, every day of the year. I love going up to the local pond near us and watching the birds and water fowl. It’s spring so there are baby ducks, goslings and cuteness abounds in the form of fluffy little creatures all learning to swim and keep up with […]
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Project 365 – a photo a day. The alarm clock, no phone challenge…
Project 365 – a photo a day, for every day of the year. I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions, but one of the things I did want to do was go back to the habit of having no phones in our bedroom at night. I have done it before and it has done wonders for my […]
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Revamping a room simply by changing your curtains.
*this is a collaborative post, sharing some helpful tips on home décor, that we hope you will find useful* Spring for me is not just about the weather starting to warm up and feeling that winter may finally be on it’s way out. It’s a season for me, when I most want to clean, tidy, declutter, […]
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We are rubbish at food waste. We need to do better.
I am not one for resolutions. I don’t tend to make plans for the new year, or swear I will try to make big changes. However, one of the things I wanted to do in 2019 was try and be better about food waste. We are, frankly, rubbish at it. As a family, we don’t […]
READ MOREProject 365 – a photo a day. Not a happy cat selfie
Project 365. A photo a day. Every day of the year… Is it really only Wednesday? My girly is super poorly. She hasn’t been well on and off for nearly three weeks. We are tired. This is a grumpy, we need proper sunshine, but at least we have antibiotics now so hopefully she will start […]
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Keeping your independence with walk in baths.
This post is commissioned by Mobility Plus, sharing my thoughts on making bathrooms more accessible when you are struggling with mobility issues or long term health concerns that can make personal care more challenging. Almost two years ago, I had major knee surgery. Long term injuries and joint issues, made worse by a job that means I […]
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Project 365 – a photo a day – flowers with faces
Project 365. A photo a day. Every day of the year… I think it’s the Alice in Wonderland story where the pansies have faces, but even in real life, they really do seem to have little faces and each flower is different. They are not my favourite flower but they are pretty. No filter, natural […]
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Project 365 – a photo a day -1/04/19 Survived April Fools Day?
Project 365. A photo a day. Every day of the year… So I stopped sharing my 365 photos for a while, life got too much. But this is the best space to keep a record of the photos I take that I want to share with random snippet comments, so it’s back. Have we all […]
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Our week in photos 23/03/19 – 30/03/19 cake, selfies, cats…
Welcome to our week in photos. This is our weekly catch up for both sets of grandparents who live abroad and don’t get to be as much a part of the daily madness of our lives as much as we and they would like. So we share here for them to get at least a […]
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