Welcome to awesome August!
 
What a happy month of summer August is. Sunshine, shorts, salads, swimming, seaside and sizzling barbecues! We love it and for Mark and I, our August ends with our 48th wedding anniversary, but starts with glamping as we do every year, a chance to be with friends, enjoying the outdoors and late night chatter around the campfire. 

Welcome dear friends to summery, gorgeous July.  Even if the sun isn’t shining, I love the optimism of this month. I swim every day and as soon as I get home from work, don my shorts and pad around the garden and house in my shorts and bare feet! Thank goodness for SOLE BALM as this nourishing foot treatment keeps my sandal feet with that ‘just ...

Welcome to the gorgeous month of June. It’s Mark and my birthday month so it’s a double celebration for us and we plan to take a week off to spend at home and enjoy the beauty of a June garden…bliss.

And now the warmer weather has decided to grace us with its presence, we should all be thinking more about our SPF and what we’ll need this season. SPF’s should actually be worn every day of the year, but let’s be honest they really come into their own when ...

Welcome to the marvellous month of May. There is a certain fragrance that hits the air in May that’s unique and delicious. My mum’s birthday landed when Lilac was in full bloom and as a child living in the countryside, I loved nothing more than gathering huge bunches of cow parsley or ‘free’ wildflowers to present to her. To this day I have a love of fresh and colourful produce either growing in pots or littered around the house to bring life and joy to our home, and at head ...

Welcome to AMAZING APRIL and although as a month it’s been given the rather bad press of “April showers” I don’t personally think this is very fair when considering all the great things it has going for it! Let’s start with goodbye winter, hello spring; lighter nights with the possibilities of early evening strolls or bike rides and even an after work cheeky glass of wine outside. Baby lambs dance in the fields, bluebells carpet the woods, glossy tulips look their absolute ...

It’s ‘Marvellous March’ already! This is the month I LOVE as it heralds the onslaught of Spring, the clocks change and don’t the birds just love us hearing their birdsong? We have the Easter festival long weekend and the garden bursts forth with daffodils, tulips and bluebells, I adore it as the air takes on a different feeling, clarity and colour. 

It’s a tradition in our household to have a good de-clutter this month. As we re-cycle, up-cycle, hoof out ...

Bye Bye to looooong January and welcome to the whistle stop month of February. Well, I like to call it the month of LOVE, being a self-confessed romantic, and I love to decorate our home in a Valentines theme with trailing ivy, red votives and tea lights, jars of fairy lights with red gingham ribbon, red tulips and faux rose petals. It’s amazing how some inexpensive little pops of colour can bring cheer and a smile to a wintry house.

Welcome all to 2024, a brand new year to get to grips with and enjoy to the fullest! Often people talk about that blank page in a diary, and I love the thought of hitting reset on different aspects of my life come 1st January. It’s impossible to be a completely new person overnight, but a few achievable new year resolutions to jot down is a good start in my book.

After the festivities and over-indulgence over Christmas I do love to set a few health goals on my agenda. I pack my meals ...