A lifestyle blog
Just before Christmas Martin, a friend of ours, happened to post on Instagram that the car dealership he runs had taken in a motorhome in part exchange for a family hatchback. Apparently it was in amazing order, and the current owner had only had it for a year but a change in circumstances meant they had needed to sell it before undertaking any of their planned trips. I showed the
It might actually be my travel bucket list for beyond 2018 as I can’t see us squeezing many of these into the next eleven months, but a girl can dream, right? The past month has been, to put it mildly, a tad stressful. First of all my youngest ended up in hospital. Twice. Once driven to A&E by me on the advice of 111 and then three days later (with
5 Top Tips for Keeping Your Kids Safe Playing Outside As a child, you probably spent time outside building dens, making up games with friends, whizzing around on a bike or a pair of rollerblades – such fun memories! While playing is an important part of childhood, as parents, it can be worrying when your kids play outside. This fear, combined with our children’s obsession with tech, has resulted in
How to find a great estate agent Your next home needs to meet all of your requirements; it should be comfortable, spacious, low-maintenance and easy to get to. Finding a property that has all of those qualities is not an easy job to do alone. To help you out on your house-hunting odyssey, you may need to go through an estate agent, but what should you look for in one?
I saw a friend sharing a post recently about her word of the year and I immediately started writing a blog post in my head, outlining mine. I have lots of blog posts in my head. All the time. Some never see the light of the day. Actually most never see the light of the day at the moment as my head is a mess and more often than not
Ginmas 2017 and it is already week 4 So I promised to do a gin a day for the whole of December but only got as far as Christmas Eve. Which makes it more of a Ginvent than Ginmas and, therefore, week four only features two gins. To be brutally honest I just ran out of steam and on Christmas Day I was in a turkey induced coma so
Ginmas 2017 and we are already at week 3 ! December is whizzing by and it will soon be the end of the year. How does that happen? Life has been so frantic this year I have really appreicated my evening sit down with a glass of gin and reading a little more about each distillery, so here is a roundup of the seven from this week. 6 O Clock
What is your favourite gin? Week 2 of my Ginmas posts and these are the gins I am enjoying this week Another week, another seven gins! This is a little snapshot of the seven gins I shared on week two of Ginmas. How can it now be half way through the month?! For every item I cross off the “to do” list it seems two more get added. But at
Those of you that know me will know I am not particularly religious. I was at one point. Vaguely. My parents decided it should be my decision as to whether I wanted to be christened, not theirs (it was the late sixties so yay for hippies). I decided at about 13 that I did want to be christened so took myself off to Sunday school, got christened and then the
Books make great Christmas presents and I am firm believer in adopting that Icleandic tradition of Jolabokaflod “The Christmas book flood”. The joy of an annual in a Christmas stocking on Christmas morning is one of my strongest Christmas memories, and I so I love to give books as gifts. Here is a little selection of some of my favourite books of the moment which might be
I decided to try a gin a day in December and called it Ginmas. Come back every week this month to see what I am drinking and sharing. How can a whole week of December have passed already?! I have loved doing Ginmas again this year and have tried to include gins that I didn’t feature last year so I learn a bit more about the huge, and ever
Window Wednesday this week is from Hillier Gardens The weather hasn’t really been conducive to photographing buildings and that small matter of Christmas has also begun to get in the way. Today though was different. And although the trip was brief it was great to get out with a camera and to meet up with Annie for breakfast. Hillier Gardens is only down the road, in a part of Hampshire