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Camping in Yorkshire: Day Three

With about ten days notice, Chris announced we were going camping during the May half term – there was a debate about or not the discussion had been had previously but in the end, we just got ourselves together and... Continue reading →

How We Celebrated Our Tenth Wedding Anniversary…

Sometimes I’m so organised I scare myself. Sometimes it’s in the middle and other times it’s a complete disaster zone. With this year being our tenth wedding anniversary, I wanted to go on an adventure but it didn’t go so... Continue reading →

Proud Pack Pony: Why I will Keep Toddler Wearing!

I am a Proud Pack Pony. AND I WILL keep wearing Jaxon as long as I physically can or he wants to be carried. At 2.5 I’m convinced he won’t want to give up anytime soon. This last week or... Continue reading →

Happy Second Birthday Jaxon!

Dear Little One, Happy birthday my special precious. Today you turn two and it seems like the last two years have flown by. I spent the evening with a friend from our New Church yesterday and talked through your birth... Continue reading →

Mud Mud Glorious Mud!

Earlier in the week I read an article about how kids are getting more allergies and are often sicker because they are spending less time outside playing. When we were kids I used to spend whole mornings or afternoons out... Continue reading →

Catalyst Festival 2016 – Day 2

I started this post when we we’re away. It was too gloomy in our tent to crochet, read or journal so I used my phone to get some thoughts down. We’ve back a month not and I’ve finally finished it! Sunday... Continue reading →

Wild Nights By Phoebe Smith

I won this book in a Twitter competition towards the end of last year. This post has been sat in my drafts as I always meant to complete it but in between everything it didn’t happen. I was determined not to read... Continue reading →

The Last Couple of Weeks (Trip to Design Junction)

Morning! Hello, how are you? The last couple of weeks have seem to be a bit crazy. I think part of it was getting back into the swing of Our Sidekick being back at school (well he’s at college now)... Continue reading →

Dear Jaxon…13 Months

Dear Jaxon… The month since your birthday has flown by and I think that’s because it has been so busy. Following your birthday party, we loaded up the car and went on holiday. The plan had been that we would... Continue reading →

Five Tips for Camping with a Baby

Before we went on holiday I looked around for tips about what to pack while camping with a baby/young toddler. What I did find didn’t always answer my questions so while I was away I started on a list of... Continue reading →

Currently…20th and 27th July

Each Monday I start with a sum up of what’s currently happening around these parts – especially when some weeks seem to fly by quicker than others! Watching: While we were on holiday, I saved a lot of links to... Continue reading →

Yorkshire Dales: Intro and Day One

Last week we were on holiday in the Yorkshire Dales. There was signal but it was minimal and patchy so when it come to blogging it was a bit impossible. I made notes so I could share of our adventures... Continue reading →

Dear Jaxon…One Year Old

Dear Jaxon, Happy Birthday Special Precious One. Today you turn one and I’m questioning where the last year has gone to. You’re inquisitive and always on the go. We often mention how Uncle Richard would keep going until he crashed... Continue reading →

Currently…6th July

Each Monday I start with a sum up of what’s currently happening around these parts – especially when some weeks seem to fly by quicker than others! Watching: I discovered a show called Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries. It’s an Australian... Continue reading →

Dear Blueberry – 36 Weeks

Dear Blueberry, I’m not doing so good at this – you’d think I would be doing better now that I’m on maternity leave. You’re now 36 weeks – which means that you’re due in four weeks. Grandma and Grandpa came... Continue reading →

311: A Journey of Faith: Part Two

You might want to start with the Intro and Part One first. Each May Bank Holiday we’d go to a bible camp called CCCF, I think this is the closest I got to anything like Spring Harvest or Greenbelt bunch... Continue reading →

304: A Journey of Faith: Part One

Technically there is an introduction to this post and you can find it here. I’m not entirely sure how many parts there will be to this – also maybe in a year or two I’ll add more parts as I... Continue reading →

207: Bristol 2012 – Day Two

When I wrote a day by day breakdown of LE2JOG each post was rushed to fit in before bedtime and all sorts of things, this time I’m trying to post what we did today to go live the following morning.... Continue reading →

117: FB Flash Back

Christmas 2006 Clearly I thought having my photo upside down was really cool! February 2007 I wanted to prove that I could do it so I did – shortly after this Chris chimney climbed the whole doorway. April 2007 Birthday... Continue reading →

092: April Fools!

I got pranked. Our Sidekick had been discussing with me how he was going to play an epic prank on Chris he just had to think up one that would be “LEGEND*wait for it*DARY”. Oh Grasshopper you have *so* much... Continue reading →

Chris’s LE2JOG Challenge: Day Seven

At the beginning of September, Chris set out on his birthday challenge to cycle from Land’s End in Cornwall to John O’Groats in Scotland (aka LE2JOG). This is my attempt to blog along the route. It’s Friday today which means... Continue reading →

Chris’s LE2JOG Challenge: Day Six
Land's End to John O'Groats

At the beginning of September, Chris set out on his birthday challenge to cycle from Land’s End in Cornwall to John O’Groats in Scotland (aka LE2JOG). This is my attempt to blog along the route. Well, rather than cooking on... Continue reading →

Chris’s LE2JOG Challenge: Day Five
Land's End to John O'Groats

Oh, dear. I wrote about half a post only to then close the WordPress app and lose it. Doh! Today was Day Five from Okehampton to Street – well actually it’s Glastonbury rather than Street (they are next-door neighbours like... Continue reading →

Travel Thursday: No 13

The most unusual place you’ve spent a night while travelling I went camping up in Scotland just outside Inverurie and I napped in the back seat of my Fiat Seicento. For most of the night, we stayed in the house... Continue reading →

Travel Thursday: No 10

A travel experience involving illness or injury Growing up I was a bit accident prone. One year we went camping near Dover – we’d been to visit a castle (Castle trips were like a staple of our holidays!) I was... Continue reading →

Travel Thursday: No 6

Your Most Enjoyable Journey This is a hard one – there’s Turkey because it was the first time I went on a plan, Amsterdam because of the epic train trip right through the Dutch countryside or Corcieux/Strasbourg because between me and... Continue reading →

NaBloPoMo: Day Seven

Day 07 — A photo that makes you happy I take so many pictures that it might be hard to pick just one lol. The first is a picture of me and the girlies at my friends 18th birthday party... Continue reading →

101 Things (Update Oct 2010)

Having been asked by my friend about how far I’d got with my goals I figured an update is needed – once I’m over 50 goals I’ll definitely start counting down I think! Go camping Buy an external hard drive.... Continue reading →

Next Weekend….

I came to the conclusion that I’m not going to Yorkshire this weekend. I love my best friends to bits and pieces but there is too much stuff stacked against me at the moment. I’ve not got the car as... Continue reading →

My 30 Days – Day 30

I may need a PA all of my own lol. As I flick through my diary I realise how crazy life is in the next few weeks. I’m going to see Kt Tunstall in concert with my best friend –... Continue reading →

My 30 Days – Day 28 and 29

It’s Tuesday today and I need to catch up on my “My 30 Days” post. Well in a second. So this morning I had a really bad day. I got to work and was a little worked up about having... Continue reading →

Monday

I went camping at the weekend and on Saturday night I didn’t sleep very well at all so when I got home yesterday I didn’t really want to blog. Then last night again didn’t sleep very well. Partly because we... Continue reading →

Day 1225 and 1226 (18th and 19th Sept)

This weekend we went camping with the Connect Group from church. It was a little crazy but so much fun at the same time. It was very funny when you chased Joe because he wouldn’t give you a hug. I... Continue reading →

Fill In The Blanks Friday

1. When I get a day to myself I like to sleep till like 10am and just have a bit of a lazy day to be honest. Read movie magazines and random books, blog away to my hearts content, watch... Continue reading →

Let Me Stop You There

I often have the tendancy to shy away from writing posts majorly about being a Christian or specific events and stuff like that but I think it’s about time that I stood up and said “Look at this moment”. Now... Continue reading →

Day 1147 (2nd July) – Day 1149 (4th July)

I’ve started putting the actual date as well other wise I get confused when catching up on a couple of days in one go. You were away this weekend with the young people which was nice to have the space... Continue reading →

The One With Script Frenzy

So I didn’t manage to complete the page count – I though 100 pages of script would be so easier – how wrong was i?! It was easy to start with and I thought 3.3 pages a day would be... Continue reading →

Likes: The Urban Bag (and Our Trip To Paris!)

In 6 weeks I’m 24 and in 8 weeks ish I am going to Paris – Yes I am just a bit excited!!! I’m am my mothers daughter and even though it’s 8 weeks away I’ve already thought about what... Continue reading →

The One With The Youth Group Trip

So today is the start of the youth group residential. Its funny to be sat outside church watching people going to and from work etc. I’d say doing the school run as well but the school closest to us broke... Continue reading →

Do I really look like that?

So those of you who follow me on Twitter, Facebook or Plurk will have seen my micro-blog posts on my way round Asda this evening with Chris. We went on a hut for a little bin to put in the... Continue reading →

Soul Survivor: Tuesday/Day 2!

Hello It’s Tuesday now – by the end of the week I will be well and truly lost and not remember which day it is lol. So today started around 5am when it started absolutely pummeling down with rain!!! I... Continue reading →