2021 is finally here! After a lovely, albeit quiet Christmas, came a very odd New Years Eve. The chimes of Big Ben rang out over an empty London. Our impressive fireworks were replaced by a light show, that accompanied a running commentary of all the challenges of 2020. No one needed reminding of that! Then it was over. Not …
This Christmas
It’s beginning to look alot like Christmas… Did you read that as a singing Michael Bublé? I did and I’m not even sorry! You know it’s that time of year, when they thaw out Mr Christmas and drag him out of his cave. I love a good Christmas song! In the 80s and 90s, we were stuck in a tired …
Letters to Google Photos
Dear Google Photos What a wonderful invention you are. Holding all my media close so I can always look back on every moment. Every baby milestone. Every night out. Every Christmas. Every Birthday. Thank you for making beautiful compilations of my weeks and months. Thank you for the videos showing a montage of pictures and clips of our trips and …
Q & A (Questions and Anxiety)
“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” – Steve Maraboli Well isn’t that a bummer. There was me hoping that life would get easier for all of us at some point and the strength and resilience that are acquired, with the passing of time, would only ever be needed on the odd occasion. This …
Journey to 10,000
Thursday 5th November saw the start of Lockdown 2.0. Back indoors we go. Coronavirus cases and the subsequent heartbreaking deaths, are on the increase once again and a short sharp pause in our way of life, was deemed the only way to stop it reaching the catastrophic state the disease achieved last time. I guess this time around we all …
Switch Off
This week I finished reading a book. I have been reading this book for 2 years. It was not a big book. It wasn’t complicated or in any way taxing but it still took me and my brain 2 years to read it. 2 YEARS! I’m a far cry from the girl who would read a book in a …
Full Circle
This month we finally got a chance to have a couple of days away. To celebrate my Mum’s birthday, we headed to the coast to spend a couple of nights away in a caravan. Keeping strictly to the current Covid rule of 6, we jumped in our cars for a few days of normality at the beach. The sun shone …
That Parent
How is September nearly over? The days are long but the weeks are so short. Our new post-lockdown routine is in full swing. My daughter is in school 5 mornings per week. Home work schedules, PE days and library book returns are firmly in the diary. We are old hands at this lark now but our first week was not …
Just the Beginning
One side effect of the long Summer holidays, is that after a while, you start to forget what day it is. Halloween costumes are in the shops but nothing prepared me for what I saw in my local store on the 31st August…Christmas decorations! Not just one or two items but aisles of the twinkly stuff. At the risk of …
Coffee and Kindness
August marked the return of my normal appointments. Going to the hairdressers for a much needed haircut. Visiting my beautician, in a desperate attempt to stop looking like an Ewok with breasts! Even a quick plod to my GP for a delightful lady exam. It’s all been very productive. It was so nice to visit my hairdresser. It had been …