Tagged: daughters

A view across a crowded stadium towards a stage and a giant screen showing a picture of Harry Styles. He is wearing a red and purple t-shirt and singing into a microphone

Here and there

Has it really been a week since we last chatted?! I hope you’ve had a good one … if you’re in the UK then you’ve probably been a bit too hot and then cold...

Flaming June

It turns out (I have discovered since I started writing this post) that ‘Flaming June” is actually a painting by Sir Frederic Leighton but in our house, the expression has always been used rather...

Paper booklets of geography revision notes lie on a wooden table.

In the thick of it

The GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education) exams have started in the UK – these are exams that are taken by pretty much every high school pupil in England, Wales and Northern Ireland (Scotland...

A world away

Big daughter is running a yoga retreat this weekend.  I can’t tell you how proud I am of her as it’s no mean feat to set one of these up, and she has booked...

A man is standing on a stage backlit with blue lights. In the foreground are lots of heads of the crowd.

Blogtober 2021 : Day 24

I’ve had a bit of a lazy day today after all of yesterday’s exertions.  I have my Fitbit step counter set at 9,000 steps as I know that I can usually do that in...

A red and orange-petalled French marigold amongst green leaves

Blogtober 2021 : Day 14

Some days work out differently to what you’d expect. After an afternoon spent in the garden, I was planning to tell you about that today but not so small daughter asked on the way...