A Long Overdue Update: New Diagnoses, Growing Children and a Self Build. It has been quite some time since my last post, and life has been moving at such a pace that I’ve struggled to find the right moment to sit down and share[...]
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Slow Living
As a child growing up in London, I remember regularly climbing trees in Richmond Park as well as in our own garden. I'd climb the beautiful Eucalyptus tree at the edge of the garden with my sisters, as well as my favourite baby do[...]
At some point between discovering I was expecting a baby just before my 30th birthday and now my 35th birthday a big shift happened; as the years have passed, so too have the feelings that surround my birthday. There was a time[...]
Recently I set up a poll on Instagram stories asking what people would like to see more of on my feed as well as here; more nature posts or more about us around our home. The result was pretty much 50/50, I did however pick up[...]
With Winter fast approaching (sorry for the reminder folks!) the vegetable garden is in a dreadful state, the willow fence that I made for the sweet peas the first year I grew them has fallen apart and the planters, raised bed[...]
In our household there is one seasonal tradition we enjoy more than most; every year, we gather, roast and feast on sweet chestnuts. We live within acres of chestnut coppice so as you can imagine our woodland provides us with v[...]
It is so easy to look at a photo and make an assumption about someone's life based on that one image. I posted a photo over on my Instagram last week of a walk in the woods with my little girl and during the night, after reading s[...]
Recently on my Instagram feed I touched on the changes that I have noticed in our woodland and whilst I too, am struggling with the seemingly non-existent Summer after the blocking high in Europe left us with rain for weeks, I am[...]
As we all know as we get older, time seems to speed up; life gets busy and often we overlook small areas of our lives. One such area for me is breakfast; in my 20s, I rarely ate breakfast, and as life got more and more busy, I spe[...]
Living just 5 minutes from The Walled Nursery, it often baffles me why I don't visit as often as I could... and should. This place is one of those rare gems in Kent that I regularly drive past and rarely have time to stop off at.[...]