Back in November - in amongst the chaos of NaNoWriMo - a very lovely thing happened that I'm only now getting chance to savour and respond to. I was nominated for a Blogger Recognition Award by the oh so lovely Maria over at The Southerner Blogs! I started blogging over four years ago now when I was really [...]
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Happiness is a gate
The manic-ness that is the first week back after half term has completely thrown my blogging schedule! So instead of panicking about that and trying to catch up with myself I decided instead to share some lovely words from one of my favourite people. Hope you enjoy!
I had a lovely moment yesterday. I experienced the feeling of knowing that there was nowhere else that I would rather be in that moment of time. It was perfect contentment, peace and happiness. I felt completely me. I was on a gate.
I was away this weekend spending some time with my favourite people and having a lot of fun and a bit of alcohol. Monday morning I was making the drive back up from Peterborough to Middlesbrough (possibly THE most boring drive in the history of travel). The sun was shining over North Yorkshire and it dawned on me that I had my lovely new walking boots in the back of the car and didn’t have anything extremely pressing to get back to so I pulled off and detoured to Osmotherley. After popping into the village shop to pick up some supplies I donned my boots and headed…
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People Who Inspire
Today my little brother turns 23. Which I guess makes him not so little any more. At the moment he is living very far away in sunny San Francisco with his lovely fiancé, working for Dropbox and being all creative and what not. This is us. I know what you're thinking, we're still both [...]
Starting From Scratch
This is the start of something new. Something I haven't done before. Sure I've had other blogs. My Tumblr has been going for years now, a random collection of everyday musings and frustrations, shared links and pictures, the odd open letter and many posts that go along the lines of: "Wow, I haven't posted anything [...]