Happy Halloween! We’ve had a lazy day at home today – our first of the half term and it’s been just what we all needed. Earlier this week, an email from Swedish kids app design studio Toca Boca popped into…
Golden Cliveden
On Tuesday we spent a blissful day at the National Trust’s Cliveden gardens and woodlands in Buckinghamshire. And what an incredible Autumn day it was. Everything saturated in the most stunning golden light. Light that was so warm, became almost…
Weekend getaway: Frinton-on-Sea
Last weekend the kids and I took a break from limping towards half term to join a big group of old friends at a holiday house in Frinton-on-Sea, Essex. The house was incredible – huge rooms, loads of space for…
Quick kitchen update with colourful string lights
Recently I’ve been working on a little mini makeover in the kitchen. I still love the main elements in the space – the turquoise brick tiles, the simple white gloss units, and the light worksurfaces – but I didn’t feel…
Probably the cutest cactus in the world
During the process of planting my succulents in my painted glass jars, I managed to lose a little baby stem off the larger cactus. It was too perfect to go to waste, so I planted it up into a tiny…
While I was walking..
Charting the weeks through our walks to school So ideally I’d like to publish these weekly posts on a Saturday, possibly a Sunday, probably a Monday and definitely not on a Tuesday. Oh. This week we’ve had dry walks, wet…





