What I did So now it’s out in the open I can preface my monthly catch up with the context that one is up le duff, and has been so since early September. One has also been incredibly, incredibly ill (I won’t bore you with the details), and it’s been incredibly hard keeping it […]

  What I did So after a pretty non-stop September, I spent most of October suffering under a lingering cold. Feel free to skip this month – it wasn’t particularly exciting! Particularly as I missioned through Sober October (helpfully, feeling dreadful with that headcold helped, as the last thing I wanted was wine). Back in […]

What I did   So that’s my favourite month – and the summer – over for another year! We managed to squeeze one more barbecue in, for all it’s mostly been raining. Husband (Oli) and I invited a close group of friends over to celebrate our second wedding anniversary, a marriage that was severely tested […]

What I did I’m not quite sure where August went. But it started off in fine fashion. My friends and their incorrigibly cute 2.5 year old daughter came to stay, along with the new addition – Baby Philip who was only about 5 weeks old. I got to steal him for newborn cuddles, while his […]

What I did   Well, I turned (whisper it) 30, that’s what I did. Gah! I’m only playing up the thirty-dread, I don’t mind at all really! It’s amusing for me because half of my best friends are “a school year” older than me (and my husband and the rest of said best friends are the […]

What I did Well… more like what DIDN’T I do in June! The month started with a mini-break in the Surrey Hills to celebrate my mother-in-law’s 60th birthday. We rented a converted barn in a farm that dates back to the 1400s and had a great long weekend playing board games, and going for walks […]

What I did After an extremely bipolar April, May didn’t have a very high bar. Off to a good start – my two sisters came to stay for a long weekend. Alongside general eating, mooching, board games and chain-making cups of tea, we also spent the day at Croome Park, a National Trust property where […]

What I did Oh, dear lord. April was definitely monthus horribilis for me. I don’t even know where to start..! I met up with some old friends (in the sense of time, not wrinkles, ahem!) from school for a 30th birthday dinner (Andean food, tapas-esque, odd but interesting). As these things invariably do, dinner turned into […]

What I did March for me is basically about one thing. My husband’s birthday. He really milks the entire month, having different celebrations with me, with friends, with work, with family. We had our Nearest and Dearest down to where we live in Cheltenham to do the infamous Bath Road pub crawl. Several old-man-pubs and […]

What I did Well, that’s the shortest month over with then – even though of course this year it was slightly longer than normal! Time for a super speedy monthly recap, as I am suffering from the dreaded post-holiday Inbox of Tremendous Size. As you can probably tell from this month’s collage, this month was […]