If I’m not fitter by the end of the lockdown, then I give up. Not only is every meal about healthy eating (homemade scotch eggs, for instance – that incidentally look like eyes!), but every day, Eldest organises us for a family walk. She is completely in league with the […]
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Half term
Hasn’t it been a glorious week? The weather is perfect for half term. If I slightly squint, we could almost be somewhere overseas. Helps that we live in a place that looks and feels like a holiday home, with all the associated quirkiness. Even our daily walk along the lanes, […]
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Does anyone else look at their calendar and wonder if it slipped through a crack from an alternative universe? I look at ours. The events are familiar and they fit our family, but they now feel like they belong to someone else. Another family, in a parallel life. This week, […]
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Life has a way of grounding me. Reminding me not to get ahead of myself. Just because something hasn’t happened before, doesn’t mean it can’t happen now. I’m talking hard frost in May. It caught me on the back foot. Such a cruel blow. (Good grief – sudden flashbacks to […]
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