Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! I hope that you had an amazing festive period and are starting the year on a high! January is typically a time when lots of us reassess our lives and set ourselves some new goals. What goals have you got for this year, and how do your new year’s...

Happy Birthday to Me!

It’s almost my birthday. 37. Late 30s. Almost 40. Those statements should sound scarier than they do. I feel very lucky to have found so much joy in my life and to feel so settled before I’m 40. I’ve done all the usual milestones: marriage, mortgage, motherhood,...

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all of my followers! I hope that you have the most wonderful Christmas ever, and I hope that it is boringly normal after two Christmases lost to the pandemic! I absolutely adore Christmas, family and friends all coming together in their sparkliest...

Christmas Grief

In 2020, like so many people, I suffered a bereavement during the coronavirus pandemic. We had to face difficult decisions as a family around shielding and visiting, trying to get the balance right between seeing and supporting my mum in her final weeks, seeing and...

Money makes the world go round

Christmas time can be a stretch for everyone financially with presents to buy, extra mouths to feed, decorations to buy and power, meals and parties and drinks and shiny outfits to pay for. This year though it is even worse for many people who have already been...