Maternity leave: a dedicated period of time to bond with your baby and embrace their early months. Or, a time to occasionally sack all of the baby throw-up, dirty nappies and whining off to leave the baby with his Dad for a bit of ‘me time’. On this instance ‘me time’ meant grabbing a mate […]
14 Things That Annoy Me for the 14th of February
With the plethora of pregnancy symptoms I now live with on a daily basis comes a bucketload of grumpiness that I find difficult to shake. When anyone asks me how I am these days I automatically respond with mardy – which is what inspired me to write this post: 1. Having to remember how to […]
Three Cheers for New Year’s
Here we are, half way through January of 2019 and the internet has suddenly re-woken with social media posts and content from your favourite bloggers and vloggers. I missed all of the Christmas content that had been bubbling away since November when it dramatically dried up during the holidays as my followed influencers spent time […]
Actual Real-Life Things That Have Stopped Me from Blogging
It’s been just over three months since I last composed and posted a completed blog post, until the other day when I clicked publish on this sunny post about our strawberry picking activity in the summer. Don’t worry, I didn’t fall over, bump my head and then forget how to blog – life just got […]
Strawberry Picking at Wymeswold Fruit Farm
Remember that excessively warm summer we had a few months back? Yeah – feels like years ago now doesn’t it? Well, during one of those blissful warm weekends the family and I made a trip to a Wymeswold Fruit Farm to pick some strawberries and I completely forget about the stunning photos I’d taken until […]
Family Days Out: Cadbury World
Having been born and bread in the East Midlands I find it a little embarrassing to note that up until recently I hadn’t a) realised that the Bournville chocolate was named after somewhere very local to me and b) visited the Cadbury chocolate factory in Birmingham. I missed out on the chance to go during a […]
My Wedding Rings: One Year Later
At the very end of April our one year wedding anniversary rolled around. It’s been one whole year since I stumbled down the aisle of that cute little ceremony room in Rothley on a warm Sunday morning on less than four hours sleep to officially become Mrs. Eaglestone. I can hardly believe it! Although I’d known […]