Take 5 |My week in 5

1. Milan I started off the week in Milan for one of my best friend’s hen party. We flew over on Saturday and came back Monday morning after a weekend of sun, gelato and Team Bride transfer tattoos. As we boarded the flight at Milan Malpensa the heavens opened and the rain came – the […]

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Kong: Skull Island |Gabbing Away at the cinema

One of my resolutions has not been to covet these blog posts and turn my blog into some sort of pseudo high brow editorial mag. I’m not that sort of person, let’s face it, and I should stop worrying about copying the million cookie-cutter blogs out there, no matter how often I read them or […]

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When Sophie hits surf | Paddle boarding with Mediterranean surf school

  I’m going to start this off by saying that I am not, by any stretch of the imagination, a ‘sea’ person. I’m not even a ‘water’ person, unless feeling at your absolute best lying in a two hour bath counts. I’m not a strong swimmer, I hate my head going under water, and the […]

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What makes the perfect weekend

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 […]

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Things have been quiet…

…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 […]

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