What makes the perfect weekend

October 16, 2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

I’ve written this post because I’ve discovered over the years that people’s ideas of what makes ‘the perfect weekend’ vary hugely. I just read a blog post in which the blogger says she gets up at 6am on a Sunday. 6am. The only time I ever see 6am is when I wake up desperately needing a […]

Things have been quiet…

October 16, 2016.Reading time 1 minute.

…On Gabbing Away, anyway. Life has been pretty noisy. I’ve carved myself out a routine and life in London that makes me happy. I’ve travelled, my family moved back to the continent (this time Spain) about three months ago, I’m training for a 10k and I’ve been busy at work. Work’s been fun, actually. I’ve […]

Take 5

October 8, 2016.Reading time 6 minutes.

*This Take 5 series will be a way for me to look back at my week and write about all the features of the last 7 days. 1 – Gardening on Lisson Grove Estate At work the other week a group of us donned our branded t-shirts and headed out to the Lisson Grove Estate […]

Take 5

October 1, 2016.Reading time 5 minutes.

*This Take 5 series will be a way for me to look back at my week and write about all the features of the last 7 days. 1 – Books I’m not by my nature a fantasy/sci-fi fan. However when I find a book in that genre that I love, I really love it. I […]

Snapshots of a coastline – Devon, Cornwall

October 21, 2015.Reading time 4 minutes.

My family has called Devon home for just over a year now. We were never one for visiting the area on summer holidays when I was a kid, bar one or two caravan holidays in Cornwall, so I never really understood the wild romanticism and the dreamy sighs were about. I’d been brought up near Scarborough, so let’s just […]