A hot coffee on a cold morningA cold coffee on a hot dayFlowers from a friendMum’s crab & camembert quicheMum’s baked cheesecakeA weekend away, staying with friendsA midday nap (I hear they are great!)That first sip of G&TA cooling thunder storm at the end of a stinking hot dayA friend offering to do a paint…
Continue reading →Happy New Year, one and all. I spent the last evening of 2020 with friends who are practically family, only having myself to make snacks and get drinks for. The kids had a bumper afternoon and sleepover with Gran and Grumpy, so it was a win for all. On my drive home just after 8pm,…
Continue reading →Sometimes I stumble across a song and get a bit fixated on it, playing it several times a day, mostly in the car when I’m on my own, learning all the words and feeling a deep connection to it in the process. There is a LOT going on right now. A LOT. A combined birthday…
Continue reading →You guys, I have something pretty huge to share with you. As most of you know, for 11 glorious, years, all the soaring highs and crushing lows of my life, as well as everything in between, were documented on my blog, My Brilliant Foot. A few years ago, I decided I wanted to look into…
Continue reading →I was telling someone today that I used to come down to Mr Henderson at Sandgate, back in the day (last year and the year before) on a Friday afternoon, order a Diablo Ginger Beer and blog in the sunshine. And the thought of that sounded too delightful to resist, so here I am, once…
Continue reading →I know I’ve been talking a lot about grief and sadness and fighting back in these early posts of my new blog. I really hadn’t intended for this to be the mood, but that’s the thing about writing a blog about day to day life – you never know what the content is going to…
Continue reading →There are wounds we carry around with us that we think have fully healed, but a bump or graze out of left field can open them up again when we least expect it. We sit there, a little dazed and confused, looking at the gaping wound, picking at it, almost curiously. Why are you still…
Continue reading →I think as adults we go through phases of what we need to hear/what we want to hear depending on what we are going through at the time. From friends, partners, loved ones, parents. It changes depending on where we are at with life and with ourselves. Sometimes we need to hear I love you;…
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